Lead Project Manager (Cyber Security) - @ Maaloomatiia Arabian

Maaloomatiia Arabian Gulf is looking to hire a Lead Project Manager for our cyber security projects. This is a senior position with high degree of autonomy and corresponding responsibilities, as elaborated below.

Key Accountabilities:

• (A) End-to-End Delivery of New Strategic Programs and Projects within the Cyber Defense Function


• (B) Successful delivery and handover into Operational support against agreed operational handover objectives


• (C) Direct leadership alongside Cyber Defense unit for selected strategic initiative development and successful delivery

Generic Role and Responsibilities:

Planning & Organization:

(A), (B): Delivery of New Strategic Programs and against Maintenance Roadmap: Work with the Cyber defense teams (primarily CSD, CAS, TVL, MSS) and the participating business units (i.e. Engineering, QA, IT, InfoSec, Legal Counsel, Procurement, Finance, etc) in order to ensure programs are delivered according to specification, in schedule and within budget.

1.Works alongside the complete organization, leveraging on the schedules of each participating unit, in order to generate the integrated end-to-end master schedule

2. Works with the participating business units in order to create a comprehensive risk register, assigning clear accountabilities on risk owners and tracking risk plans and mitigation measures

3.Overall management and tracking of all delivering and supporting teams to maintain deliverables on track and aligned towards the overall project goal

4.Works with QA to ensure that product achieves the required level of quality

5. (C)Partnering with key Cyber defense practice leads and other business units in order to keep agreed strategic initiatives on track

Financial Excellence: Revenue and Costs

1. (A), (B): Ensures, together with Fintel, that programs/ projects remains within allocated budget

2. (C) Ensures, together with Fintel, that allocated programs of work remains within allocated budget

Customer Excellence: Internal / External Customer Engagement and Relationship Management

1. (A), (B)Manages client relationship in conjunction with account management and product management function, ensures agreed deliverables/ action items are delivered

2. (C)Manages relationship within the Cyber defense team and other business units

People Excellence: Learning & Growth

1. Employee Engagement

2.Provide team vision and clarify how individual and team efforts contribute to achieving that vision

3.Develop the team further through offering them interesting work content and varying opportunities of collaborating with different units in the organization

4.Actively mentor individuals and teams to grow and add value to the business

5.Actively encourage knowledge transfer between individuals and teams and ensure knowledge is retained within the team

Requires Skills and Background:

• Master degree in Computer Science, electrical engineering, related field or equivalent experience.


• PMP or PRINCE Certification


• 10+ years of experience managing projects across the full project delivery life cycle in both waterfall and agile methodologies, hardware and software delivery/development life cycle experience


• Must have previous project or program management experience in cyber security and complex platform/product delivery.


• Executive stakeholder management from business ideal initiation through to detailed business case development and throughout execution and operational maintenance


• Solid understanding of the product development and project delivery life cycle. Experience with mixed development methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, SCRUM, Agile, Hybrid).


• Excellent cross-functional communication skills (verbal/written), collaboration, and interpersonal skills are essential.


• Strong leadership skills and ability to influence with a prevailing positive approach. Able to build strong partnerships across the organizationto deliver the best outcomes.


• Demonstrated ability to learn and leverage technical knowledge to effectively guide programs and teams.


• Experience with various project management tools (e.g. EPM, JIRA, Confluence, MS Project) and financial tools preferred


• Experienced supplier/vendor management from initial contract discussions throughout SOW development and overall execution management