Director Agile Program Management

Company Description

Your career's next level can create next-level impact. You want to do work
that matters. We want to make that possible.
For ‎30 years we've helped the world's most established brands evolve for a
more digital future. We combine strategy, experience design, and engineering
to build products and innovate game-changing services that allow our clients
to thrive. Through it all, one thing has remained constant - the secret to our
success is hiring people like you.
One team all around the world. Find endless opportunities and access to a vast
network with ‎50+ offices across the globe.
As Programme Director, you will lead large-scale, multi-dimensional
initiatives enabling your clients Digital Business Transformation. You will
partner with senior client executives and ultimately be accountable for the
overall strategic shaping, planning, implementation, and effectiveness of work
for client engagements. You will guide globally distributed teams to deliver
successful software outputs and meaningful business outcomes for clients while
influencing change.

Job Description
* Act as the primary Engagement Lead for delivery of large-scale and complex programmes for client's digital business or engineering transformation programmes
* Facilitate internal teams and advise clients to connecting solutions and integrating processes to ensure programme development is in line with broader goals and objectives of the programme
* Define processes and tools needed by teams across all programmes enabling successful programme implementation and delivery
* Provide guidance on consistent application of project management methodologies that align with strategic plans
* Partner with clients to plan, evolve, and formulate a customer-focused digital business transformation (DBT) strategy; seed, estimate, and facilitate budget planning for value-based digital business transformation engagements
* Track and evaluate the delivery metrics of the product teams within the engagement and facilitate continuous improvement to improve flow, quality, and value realisation
* Act as a trusted strategic advisor to clients to transform their business by guiding internal leaders and external senior stakeholders on engineering and digital business transformation methods and approaches
* Own or liaise with the Executive PMO to communicate programme executional metrics, risks, issues, and dependencies
* Articulate engagement commercial metrics including client outcomes, leakage, burn rate, revenue & margins, etc. to support account health and drive account-level planning within the industry vertical
* Deliver thought-leadership around industry, process, PMO, delivery, and technology on behalf of the organisation

Qualifications
* Fluency in Arabic is essential
* Experience with a distributed delivery model, leading diverse teams, and collaborating in a multi-cultural environment for end-to-end engagements
* Programme management experience in scaled digital implementation leading high performing teams within IT and consulting environment
* Effective systems thinking skills and ability to identify interconnectivity across multiple streams of work
* Demonstrated experience navigating a large organisation, showcasing the ability to influence with storytelling and data
* Comfortable with C-suite reporting relationships and presenting to C-level executives, senior business leaders, and technology leaders
* Knowledge of best practices in design thinking/user-centered design (e.g., user research, hypothesis-driven development, prototyping, and usability testing)
* Experience with a variety of methodologies like Scrum , Kanban , Scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe etc.) - We only deliver in Agile as our emphasis is delivering working product
* Effective leadership, analytical skills, and negotiation skills
* Effective conflict resolution skills

Additional Information
* We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
* We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms