Project Lead- Digital Transformation

Project Lead- Digital Transformation

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We are currently recruiting for "Project Lead- Digital Transformation" for our prestigious end client based in Dubai, UAE.

Job Description:
The Project lead position is the key person driving the on-ground execution effort with the business and delivery teams. He/she would be expected to manage a digital transformation work-stream with 3-4 initiatives concurrently, depending on their complexity with limited support from a Practice lead. The role requires strong problem solving, process/journey design, converting high level design to tangible requirements and project management elements to deliver high impact initiatives for sizeable impact on key business metrics e.g., sales, profitability, customer experience, cost efficiency. This is a techno-functional role and is critical for realization of the bank’s digital transformation agenda. For their work-stream, the individual owns the on-ground activities, from solution development to implementation and benefit realization.
 

• Masters’ degree in relevant specialization / MBA
• Lean Six sigma Black belt
• PMP Certified
• 2+ years’ experience in management consulting or
• 4-5 years’ in a digital transformation/business projects team in a large organization (Not IT project Project leads but on the business / techno-functional side) or
• 7-10 years on the business side within financial services

Problem Solving: Demonstrated experience in leading solution design project execution for at least 3 successful large scale / high impact programs.

• Problem structuring: Understand the big picture and create frameworks to facilitate diagnostic, solution design and requirement gathering
• Hypothesis generation: Build hypothesis and identify data requirements to validate hypothesis
• Data Gathering and analysis: Effectively gather data and conduct right analysis, identify proxies where data does not exist or is difficult to obtain
• Synthesis: Synthesize findings and analysis

Communication Skills: At least 1-2 years of experience in preparing presentations for presenting to functional / department head levels (VP / SVP level)

• Verbal communication: Clear, confident, respectful communication, able to manage challenging stakeholders (loud, critical, unresponsive)
• Written communication: Able to storyline presentations and not just create slides; able to create documents for project deliverables with limited guidance from PRACTICE LEAD
• Presence: Able to influence functional / department head level stakeholders

Digital Transformation and Operations: Functional understanding of various digital transformation technologies such as RPA, IPA, RDA, Machine learning, Big data analytics, chatbots, NLP/NLG and ability to identify what is the right fit for the given problem
Project Management: Demonstrated experience in independently leading project management for at least 1 successful large scale / high impact programs and for 2-3 projects in supporting capacity

• Planning: Preparation of tactical implementation plans
• Execution: Tight management/ execution to plan
• Impact orientation: Identification of key impact levers, hunger for impact