Overview of the role

The role is focused on ensuring Blue is a sustainable, innovative and agile digital business, the senior manager will work very closely with Blue Rewards stakeholders (leadership team and other functional team members) and with stakeholders across other Al-Futtaim divisions and functions to ensure that strategic projects & initiatives are completed to plan and that business benefits are identified, and organizational change is effectively sustained, to ensure our business is future-ready.

The role will help to enable a value-driven approach to managing projects, that emphasizes collaboration, speed, and efficiency and minimizes waste that's applied across all areas of the organization.

What you will do

• Lead program management and coordinate activities for transformation programs
• Ensure quality of analysis, activities, and deliverables for strategic initiatives, including the development and validation of business cases and detailed transformation plans
• Help syndicate analysis, results with all stakeholders and manage relations and expectations
• Ensure correct implementation of transformation plan across various initiatives and streams
• Prepare regular reporting and progress updates – for the blue leadership team and board meeting preparation
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to proactively drive momentum of the transformation
• Support with the annual strategy cycle and building out of strategic initiatives with the Blue Leadership stakeholders
• Helps define financial and non-financial impact of initiatives and projects
• Ongoing tracking of progress of key initiatives which are part of the strategic roadmap
• Create data-driven insights for decision making
• Implement best practice standards in reporting & governance
• Ongoing tracking of progress of key initiatives which are part of the strategic roadmap
• Create data-driven insights for decision making
• Implement best practice standards in reporting & governance

Skills

Required Skills to be successful

• Strategy analysis
• Project, Program & Portfolio management
• Benefits & Value management
• PMO office management
• Business & Digital Transformation

What equips you for the role

• Graduate with any business or technical degree from a reputable institute.
• Minimum 6-8 years of professional experience, with at least 3 years of strategy / business consulting experience  
• Experience in front office / growth strategy, business model generation & benefits realization is preferred.