Project Manager - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Antal International

Antal International

Verified Company

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1 week ago

Posted by:

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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About the job
Antal is looking to recruit a Project Manager for one of our clients.

To clarify, for better management of one of our projects, the Project Manager will be working at a client site in Abu Dhabi.

The main requirements are:

Project management

Manages the daytoday operational and tactical aspects of multiple or largescale projects.
Oversees managers working on client engagements within practice.
Reviews highlevel deliverables across projects.
Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with our methodology to ensure profitable and successful execution of consulting engagements as measured by regional goals and customer satisfaction.
Minimizes our exposure and risk across multiple projects.
Manages scope and mitigates risk across projects.

Project Accounting

Determines appropriate revenue recognition, ensures accurate invoicing, and monitors receivables for all projects under his/her direction.
Integrates financial data for multiple projects.
Compares financial data for practice to that of other practices and seeks ways to maximize revenue.
Analyses profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects.
Addresses elevated billing issues when they arise.

Financial Management

Manages to and achieves revenue goals set for projects.
Accurately forecasts revenue, profitability, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects.
Sets expectations upward regarding revenue and profitability projections.

Business Development

Identifies partnership opportunities and capitalizes on "addon" sales opportunities across projects.
Achieves "add on" revenue goals.
Assists in the identification of strategic accounts.
Works in conjunction with the sales team to follow up on sales leads within practice.
Grows longterm relationships with clients and capitalizes on equity and partnership opportunities.
Communication
Serves as key participant in team and client meetings.
Raises our visibility through involvement in local industry organizations.
Confronts issues openly and quickly.
Effectively communicates relevant project/practice information to superiors and peers in other practices.
Handles difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and respect for the individual.
Technical Understanding
Assists in the evaluation and redesign of practice offerings.
Possesses a thorough understanding of our service offerings, technical preferences, and technical direction.
Tactfully communicates sensitive information.

Professional Qualities:

Leadership
Challenges others to develop as leaders while clarifying roles and responsibilities.
Pursues excellence in all aspects of business.
Possesses the expert knowledge to identify opportunities for change and the ability to convey the need for change.
Builds expert knowledge in our industry and conveys knowledge to others.
Teamwork
Evokes creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas and career plans to fruition.
Helps to determine new, creative ways to employ teams on projects and distribute responsibilities.
Works across practice to share lessons learned and best practices.
Client Management
Manages daytoday client interaction and expectations for multiple or largescale projects.
Anticipates clients' needs and proposes alternative business solutions.
Continually seeks and capitalizes upon opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
Possesses a knowledge base of each client's business, organization and objectives.

Role and Responsibilities:

Define the project management process to be applied to the project.
Select team members and, if crossfunctional as the Core Team Leader, select Core Team Members.
Prepare project plan and obtain management approval of the project plan.
Assure that all team members understand their roles and accept their responsibilities.
Analyze risk and instigate avoidance activities. Establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating corrective action.
Track and report on progress to plan.
Analyze the actual performance against the plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
Keep all stakeholders informed of progress and issues.
Involve functional expertise in design reviews and key decisions as well as risk strategies.
Assure timely adaptive action is taken.
Manage change to preserve business plan commitments. Initiate Phase Review if objectives must change.
Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers.
Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities.
Coordinate management and technical decisions.
Arbitrate and resolve conflict and interface problems within the project.
Provide input on the performance of project team members t