PMO Lead - Automotive
Date: 4 Mar 2025
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Company: Al Rostamani Group of Companies LLC
Every employee at Al Rostamani Group plays a role in making a real difference to the business and our customers. We care for our employees by offering them meaningful and purposeful work and an opportunity to grow, learn, contribute and succeed. Today, the Al Rostamani Group has come a long way since its birth in 1957. Our group has grown steadfastly with the guiding principles of Commitment, Care & Vision, alongside a strong sense of active involvement in the community. We are a well-diversified group, with a key presence in industries such as General Trading, Automobiles and Heavy Equipment, Travel, Foreign Exchange, Financial Services, Property Management, Construction, Infrastructure Development and Information Technology Services. Our Group employs approximately 2000 people from 41 different nationalities, which contributes to our multicultural and multi-national environment.
Al Rostamani Trading Company is the sole authorized distributor of Suzuki and Citroën across the UAE with Sales, Service and Parts outlets able to serve its customers throughout the country.
Job Purpose
To implement transformation strategy by drawing together expertise in the program and project management disciplines and delivering the following:
- Design of project programs and individual projects, including scope, tasks and timeline
- Delivery of project programs and individual projects
- Progress tracking and reporting
- Following the set transformation agenda
Job Responsibilities
• Manage the process and tools for monitoring, tracking and reporting on the overall transformation projects for ARTC
• Develop and implement tracking and reporting tools for core business programs in partnership with the group transformation office, HR, IT and external vendors
• Design project, programs, scopes and timelines, identify tasks and assign task owners
• Apply standard management methods to help prioritize initiatives and anticipates issues
• Update dashboards, tools, and system and ensure regular and timely updates through close coordination with stakeholders
• Support group transformation office in collecting information and documenting progress of initiatives (reports, analysis, emerging issue logs, etc.)
• Lead collection and organization of relevant data for initiative planning and analysis
• Monitor projects/programs progress against plan and flag delays
• Identify and highlight issue that merit further investigation
• Track financial and non-financial costs and benefits (impact) of initiatives and overall projects
• Drive momentum by ensuring accurate and timely distribution of communication and reports to stakeholders
• Ensure all project documentation is update to date and easily accessible in central repository
• Serve as program manager for select programs
• Supports detailed planning and validation of business cases – arrange stakeholders’ training as needed
• Track and support implementation progress and identify/highlight issues that merit investigation
• Coordinate stakeholders engagement and prepare agendas for meeting
• Ensure TMO tools and system are followed and reported on timely basis and projects/programs are progressing as planned
• Prepare detailed analysis and presentation of outcomes
Job Requirements
Qualifications
- Master Degree or higher, preferably in business administration or finance field
Experience
- Minimum 3 years of consulting experience in automotive, preferably in operational consulting company (lean management, TPS etc.)
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in project management
- Deep understanding of project design, transformation and initiative management
- Experience of managing high performing teams
At Al Rostamani Group, we seek talented people who work hard to achieve great things. We consider not only your skills and experience, but also your passion for the role, your desire to learn and how well you align with our core values of care, commitment and vision. If this position represents an opportunity you wish to pursue, we invite you to apply.