Senior Manager - Project Management

We're looking for a passionate, curious and organized Senior Manager to be part of our team, delivering a multi-discipline communications scope for a game-changing brand. As a Senior Manager, Communications & Project Management, you will support the account management team in coordinating projects across a range of verticals - creative, strategy, production, content, media, SEO, CX, data science.

The core responsibilities will be to ensure that all project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track, in addition to playing the lead role in planning campaigns, resourcing, monitoring and quality control from start to finish. This role will also be tasked with submitting project deliverables, preparing status reports, and establishing effective project plans, ensuring their effective execution throughout.

Technical & Product

- Proven experience in project management.

- Ability to co-ordinate project teams of various sizes

- Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies.

- Experience with project management tools (such as Asana, Monday.com, Trello , Basecamp)

- Ability to complete projects in a timely manner.

Business Acumen & Operational Efficiency

- Working with the creative services manager and aligning on project timelines

- Managing stakeholders on clients projects and organizing their projects from approval of concepts till the end

- Forward planning, identifying potential risks and proposing solutions

- Troubleshooting unforeseen issues as they arise, escalating as required

- Outsourcing and finding freelancers when needed.

- Establishing effective project communication plans (CPS) and ensuring their execution on time

- Following the project's progress and bypassing problems

Innovative & Analytical Mindset

- Effective communication skills, able to connect with people at all levels.

- Strong leadership skills: able to motivate the team and drive maximum performance

- Good decision maker

- Technical expertise: Since project management software and other related programs are essential in accomplishing the project goals, an effective project manager needs to have the knowledge to understand the issues that are related to the technical aspect.

- Inspires a shared vision: A visionary person can lead people to the right direction as well as easily adapt to the changes that come along the way. They are good at empowering people to share responsibility for delivering on this vision

People & Leadership

-Seeks others feedback to develop self-awareness, strengths and address development area.

-Is able to proactively raise issues to improve effective team working and collaboration.

-Is able to communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner.

-Collaborates with stakeholders and embraces an inclusive based environment.

-Is able to make valuable contributions to discussions and brainstorming sessions, providing insight and point of view.

-Able to build relationships quickly with others and engages personally with peers and clients.

Business Acumen & Operational Efficiency

- Working with the creative services manager and aligning on project timelines

- Managing stakeholders on clients projects and organizing their projects from approval of concepts till the end

- Forward planning, identifying potential risks and proposing solutions

- Troubleshooting unforeseen issues as they arise, escalating as required

- Outsourcing and finding freelancers when needed.

- Establishing effective project communication plans (CPS) and ensuring their execution on time

- Following the project's progress and bypassing problems

Requirements:

-Maintaining a positive attitude even when under pressure: Above all, attitude before aptitude.

- Bachelor's degree in marketing or other related field

-7-9 years experience in related field (some degree of comms agency experience is necessary as the job requires a high level of understanding of communication principles and agency functions).

-2-4 years experience with project management theory and best practices

-Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

- Evidence of being solution driven and innovative with how they drive performance and delivery

-Comms Planning experience in a digital (service) environment or with QSR's (a plus but not essential)

-Experience working across Pharma would be highly preferred

-Fluency in Arabic would be essential