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 and play a key role in delivering a state-of-the-art flagship building and employee experience for up to 3,000 of Emirates Groups colleagues. Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your expertise will be central to shaping the future of aviation while making a meaningful impact on a global stage.

As the Project Manager, you will plan, manage, and deliver projects in alignment with the Company’s project practices, standards, and processes. You will also represent the Department in large-scale business projects across the Group. You will ensure that projects meet defined business requirements and achieve the expected benefits within the agreed timelines, costs, and scope, leading the project from initiation to closure.

In this role, you will:

• Ensure regular review of project delivery performance. Contribute to the improvement of systems, procedures, and standards to enhance capabilities, assisting the senior management team in continual process, quality, and productivity improvement.
• Ensure on-time, in-scope, and within-budget delivery of all assigned projects. Initiate and manage projects through all stages to ensure that their progress, quality, and outputs in key result areas are consistent with the scope and targets envisaged in the project charter. Where necessary, take appropriate corrective actions in consultation with the department and concerned support functions.
• Ensure on-time, in-scope, and within-budget delivery of all assigned projects by ensuring that projects are scoped and initiated in collaboration with internal stakeholders and other support functions, agreeing project objectives, desired outcomes, milestones, roles, and responsibilities with the department heads, which are encapsulated within appropriate service levels in agreed project charters.
• Projects are planned professionally and reflected in the Project Register or planning tool of the department. The plan must be realistic, maintained, and properly resourced.
• Project stakeholders are managed properly for the duration of the project to achieve smooth implementation and quick realisation of benefits.
• Delivery is within the approved timeframe and agreed cost, driving down costs wherever possible and targeting early delivery.
• Functional solutions meet agreed requirements and customer expectations, are maintainable, and meet documented and agreed criteria.
• Ensure solutions are adequately planned, designed in line with corporate standards, and tested, covering all risk aspects.
• Risks and issues are assessed, and mitigation/management strategies are designed and agreed with respective stakeholders prior to implementation.
• Timely, appropriate, and accurate project information and reporting are provided to the Project Sponsor, stakeholders, and/or steering board members, as well as to other departments which may be affected by the project outcomes.
• An implementation and training concept is developed and organised as required by, and agreed with, the relevant Department or Business Unit on a network-wide basis.
• Conflicts or disagreements arising from issues or concerns connected with projects are managed appropriately to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
• Ongoing system support is designed and implemented with the project go-live phase.
• Ensure that business requirements are fully analysed, challenged, understood, and documented so that user requirements and defined solutions meet those business needs, identifying alternatives and added value wherever possible.
• Initiate and manage projects through all stages to ensure that their progress, quality, and outputs in key result areas are consistent with the scope and targets envisaged in the project charter. Where necessary, take appropriate corrective actions in consultation with the department and concerned support functions.
• Manage the motivation, development, productivity, and performance of assigned project team members to achieve the most effective, productive, and cost-effective quality solution. Identify developmental requirements, coaching team members when necessary to ensure they are equipped to fulfil project deliverables, and ensure that team performance reviews are completed through the PM Review performance management tool.
• Lead a team of business users, representatives from other departments of the Emirates Group, and third-party service providers to deliver larger, complex department-owned projects or provide dedicated support to other larger business projects within the Group.

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

• Experience in delivering technology enabled employee experience in a corporate building
• Work experience in a PMO or Strategic planning function.
• Demonstrated experience managing large cross-functional projects.
• With relevant post qualification experience in relevant business area with project management experience of mid to large size projects preferred.
• Experience in a leading project management function would be advantageous.

You will have an edge, if you have:

• Experience in building Infrastructure and facilities project management.
• Commercial and financial acumen.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• In depth knowledge of the functioning of all areas of a large organisation.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; with powerful ability to persuade and influence people, and manage stakeholders, internally and externally, at all levels.
• Demonstrable exposure to: Project management, Change implementation planning and management, Systems Development. Management, Project Management tools, Application support, Business analysis.

At Emirates Group, we’re committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Join our team of over 100,000 people and follow your passions into one of over 50 brands in the Emirates Group. We’re led by our world-famous airline, Emirates, and our global air services provider, dnata. All our leading brands - in travel, tourism, leisure, aviation, sport and retail - reflect our passion for innovation. We strive for exceptionally high standards in all the products and services we offer and we’ve built an admired global reputation because of it. Work with us to build exciting brands and progress your career in the Emirates Group.

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers