Job Objective:
He/she (assisting the Project Director) manages and coordinates internal (Control Account Managers, Work Package Managers, etc.) and external (Customer, suppliers, sub-contractors, partners) dedicated teams by involving the following associated teams: Sales, finance, contract management, etc. He/She (assisting the Project Director) directs the project activities (including those relating to risks & opportunities) to reach completion of the project regarding its technical, industrial, financial, and customer satisfaction aspects.
Main Responsibilities:
Ensures successful Project Execution and contributes to preparing, organizing Project Reviews :
- Establishes and updates project requirements baseline in a collaborative work with the Bid Manager.
- Establishes and updates project execution baseline (project structure, work package description, partners and supplier contractual data, management plans, costs, budgets and financial structure, resourced schedule).
- Establishes and updates project key decision data (contingencies, strategy, and business case).
- Initializes the project: identifies the key project stakeholders, sets the project team, organizes the project structuring activities, starts-up project activities and identifies and allocates the source project requirements.
- Manages the financial aspects of the acquisition Make or Buy strategy, suppliers’ consultation and negotiation, signing contract, contract’s execution and closure.
- Leads the project launch review and involves all stakeholders: project team, Management Plan and associated documents (WBS, OBS, schedule, budget allocations, etc.), industrial scenario, project charter, team charter, etc.
- Executes, monitors and controls the project until its completion.
- Manages the different work packages.
- Controls the project and ensures the respect of the stakeholders’ commitments, while mastering risks and opportunities.
- Project Integration Management, to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated.
- Deals with NAT, deals with internal stakeholders, External Stakeholders (Systra, Colas, Orascom) and works with rest of the involved units, regarding technical aspects, price and time, representing Hitachi Rail interests.
- Controls requirements, costs and schedule during all the project life cycle.
- Manages project quality and customer and stakeholders overall satisfaction.
- Manages legal and contractual requirements including handling disputes.
- Conducts regular progress review meetings, reporting the project progress to the company senior management.
- Focus on Customer satisfaction
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- 7 -10 years of experience
- Electrical/ Telecom / Signaling Engineering preferable, Civil Engineering
- Railways construction background and/or railways signaling
- Fluency in Arabic and English.
- Strong organization and leadership skills.
- High ability to manage resources within an international environment.
- Business oriented and able to work towards targets
- Extensive client and stakeholder management
- Working in a complex and multidisciplinary organization
- Accountable, committed to excellence, deliver on Commitment
- Transparency
- Agile and Innovative
