Senior Project Manager

Role overview

This position is for a Senior Project Manager based in Doha, Qatar. The role focuses on planning, coordinating, and delivering projects across the group while keeping work aligned to strategy, timelines, and available resources. The person in this role is also expected to help resolve operational issues, support team members, and make sure project execution follows group standards, internal policies, industry good practice, and applicable laws and regulations.

Program and PMO governance

• Create and manage a practical PMO structure covering governance, reporting, planning, risk, issue, dependency, and financial control.
• Set the standards, templates, controls, and meeting rhythm needed for a long-term transformation program.
• Keep an integrated master plan updated for all strategy initiatives and related workstreams through 2030.
• Make sure execution remains connected to strategic goals, regulatory needs, and delivery priorities.

Consultant and vendor coordination

• Assist with the sourcing, selection, and onboarding of outside consultants, including experts involved in business requirements and transformation delivery.
• Clarify the scope, deliverables, milestones, and success measures for consulting assignments.
• Serve as the main coordination point for consultants so outputs remain consistent, non-duplicative, and aligned with program rules.
• Track consultant performance against agreed timelines, deliverables, and budgets.

Business requirements and delivery control

• Guide the preparation of business requirements so they are complete, prioritized, traceable to strategy, and ready for implementation.
• Bring together input from business, operations, compliance, risk, technology, and investment stakeholders.
• Identify and manage dependencies between requirements, operating model changes, and implementation stages.

Stakeholder communication and executive reporting

• Prepare clear, decision-focused updates for senior leaders and governance meetings.
• Lead or support steering committees, design authority sessions, and executive review checkpoints.
• Act as the key link between sponsors, business leads, consultants, and delivery teams.

Experience and capability requirements

Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree from a recognized university, preferably in Marketing, Banking, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or Information Technology, or another closely related field. The role calls for at least 10 years of relevant experience, ideally gained in a highly rated international bank or in IT operations. Of this, 5 to 6 years should be in a supervisory capacity within project management, product knowledge, operations, and business excellence.

Specialized skills and background

• Strong planning and coordination ability to prioritize multiple projects and meet target schedules.
• Working knowledge of project management methods, tools, and techniques.
• Hands-on exposure to banking applications, payment systems, and policy/procedure environments.
• Good understanding of home banking, ATM management systems, card management systems, foreign trade, treasury products, and related operational products.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to adapt well in a multinational environment with diverse cultures and customs.
• Operations management capability, including capacity planning, project management, performance management, MIS, and budgeting.
• Proven customer service orientation.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in both English and Arabic.
• Strong coaching, leadership, and team motivation skills.
• Solid analytical and planning abilities with experience handling multiple priorities at once.
• Ability to review existing products and recommend best practices to reduce risk, improve automation, raise productivity, and support income growth based on market behavior.
• Experience leading teams through system testing, UAT, go-live, and product enhancement activities.
• Comfort working with both Waterfall and Agile implementation approaches.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end project delivery and the full project lifecycle.

Additional notes

The role emphasizes ensuring project compliance, strengthening operational discipline, and supporting business improvement through effective implementation, testing, and delivery oversight.