MAIN OBJECTIVE OF ROLE

To manage the strategic portfolio within IT across various cross-functional business areas, including preparing business case preparations, securing capex approval by Cost Review Board, executing plans, monitoring risk management, and ensuring delivery within the approved costs and project timelines.     

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Develops a comprehensive framework, in collaboration with business departments, for constructing business cases, initiating, developing, and executing projects, while also documenting the project’s scope, budget, and justifications.
• Drives the development of an ecosystem of strategic partners that enables the delivery of innovative, cost effective and high-quality business solutions and services.
• Develops and leads the IT partner and supplier strategy for flydubai, overseeing all aspects of the supplier lifecycle to ensure alignment with strategic goals and successful delivery by partners.
• Leads and governs the Portfolio Management of application and infrastructure portfolios, ensuring alignment with business strategy, and oversees the monitoring, tracking, and reporting of projects against IT business performance metrics, including delivery, support, unit cost and ROI.
• Undertakes strategy creation for contingency planning and project risk mitigation/issue resolution across the flydubai IT projects portfolio.
• Ensures the fulfillment of personnel and cost-related demands within the IT department, facilitating the operational effectiveness of IT lines of business, and overseeing functions that govern the areas of technology business management, IT performance, commercial and contract management, and complex billing.
• Plans and schedules project goals, milestones, and deliverables to ensure conflict amongst the project portfolio does not occur (stakeholder, resourcing, and technology conflict).
• Defines and maintains PMO standards and procedures for all parts of the project life cycle and flydubai development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.)
• Leads and guides decision-making that extend beyond the project level, providing a flydubai project portfolio perspective on individual projects, and serving as a sounding board for ideas and approaches to address specific project issues and conflict resolution.
• Identifies and manages cross-project dependencies and risks, recognizing economies of scale and instances of overlap in project goals.
• Reports the progress of projects detailing both advancements and challenges, including risks and issues with associated mitigations and resolutions, and presents corresponding solutions to the C-Level and Senior Management teams, including relevant business departments.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

Minimum Education Level 

·       Master’s Degree

Education Specific Requirement (if applicable) 

·       Specialization in IT or Engineering

Certifications (if applicable)          

·       PMI / ITIL certification

·       SIX Sigma accreditation an advantage

Languages   

·       Fluent in English

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Years with Qualifications   

·       10

Professional Experience   

·       Experience in managing large IT portfolio of projects

·       Experience in developing strategic partnerships

·       Experience in workforce planning and management for large IT organization

CORE COMPETENCIES

·       Customer Focus

·       Teamwork

·       Effective Communication

·       Personal Accountability & Commitment to achieve

·       Resilience and Flexibility (Can do attitude)

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

·       Inspiring & Developing Others

·       Decision Making

·       Strategic Thinking

·       Business Acumen

ISR REQUIREMENTS

Reads and complies with the ISR policies of the Company and diligently reports any weakness or incidents to the respective Line Manager or the Information Security team. Completes all required ISR awareness sessions and follows associated guidelines in the day-to-day business operations.