Project Manager - Transformation Lead

Job purpose

At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always ‘Fly better.’ As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence. Join us as a Project Manager – Transformation Lead (2 year temporary contract) and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organisation by driving people strategies that empower our global workforce. Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your expertise in human resources will contribute to building a world-class employee experience while advancing your own career on a global stage.

As the Project Manager – Transformation Lead (2 year temporary contract), you will act as the lead for a HR technology transformation programme, owning the end-to-end delivery across the business. As the key interface between HR, the business, and technical development teams, you will translate business needs into clear technical requirements, drive alignment, and ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose. You will lead the change strategy, ensuring strong stakeholder engagement, effective communication, and a structured approach to implementation, adoption, and embedding of new systems and ways of working to deliver measurable business impact.

In this role, you will:

• Ensure regular review of project delivery performance, contributing to the improvement of systems, procedures, standards, quality and productivity across the department.
• Ensure on time, in scope and within budget delivery of assigned projects, managing projects through all stages to ensure outputs remain aligned to agreed project charters and business objectives.
• Scope and initiate projects in collaboration with internal stakeholders and support functions, agreeing project objectives, milestones, responsibilities and desired outcomes.
• Develop, maintain and manage realistic and properly resourced project plans, ensuring projects are reflected within departmental project registers and planning tools.
• Manage project stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle to support smooth implementation, alignment and timely realisation of business benefits.
• Ensure project delivery is achieved within agreed timeframes and budgets, driving efficiencies, cost optimisation and early delivery opportunities wherever possible.
• Ensure functional and system solutions meet agreed business requirements, customer expectations, corporate standards and documented acceptance criteria.
• Identify, assess and manage project risks and issues, implementing agreed mitigation and management strategies prior to implementation.
• Provide timely, accurate and appropriate project reporting and updates to project sponsors, stakeholders, steering committees and impacted business areas.
• Develop and coordinate implementation, training and go-live support plans across relevant departments and business units.
• Analyse, challenge and document business requirements to ensure proposed solutions meet business needs while identifying opportunities for improvement and added value.
• Lead and manage cross-functional teams, including business users, Emirates Group departments and third-party service providers, ensuring high quality, cost-effective and successful project delivery.

Qualification

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or honours in information technology, business, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience within a PMO, project management or strategic planning function.
• Demonstrated experience managing large cross-functional projects within a complex organisation.

You’ll have an edge if you have:

• Commercial and financial acumen, with strong negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• In depth knowledge of operating within a large and complex organisation.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrable exposure to project management, change implementation and systems development management.
• Experience using project management tools, application support and business analysis methodologies.

Emirates Group is an international organisation with employees from over 170 nationalities, we encourage applications from across the globe. Your application journey begins by applying via the Emirates Group Careers website. Please ensure your CV is up to date for our talent acquisition team to review your profile. If you meet the criteria of the role, you will then be invited to complete a HireVue video interview, to share more about your experience and your career aspirations. If you are shortlisted, you will then be invited to interview with our hiring managers. If you are successful, your recruiter will reach out to you with an offer and then our onboarding team will ensure a smooth transition to your new role at Emirates Group.

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