Arabia Project Manager

**Company Profile**: ekaterra is the biggest Tea Company in world today, with outstanding, purpose driven brands such as Lipton, PG tips and Pukka. ekaterra was created as a standalone "corporate startup" in 2021 when Unilever decided to separate the Tea business to ensure it can best achieve its potential. Following that announcement, in Nov 2021 ekaterra's sale to private equity firm CVC was announced. ekaterra's Tea brands, geographies and Tea estates generate revenues in excess of €2 billion - the company is growing and profitable with proven potential both pre - and post-COVID-19. As a standalone entity, ekaterra remains number one in the world and is even better positioned to lead the industry and take full advantage of the opportunities in the category, with more focus and entrepreneurship driving greater growth and value. As we transition into a proper corporate startup, we are seeking employees with a passion for exciting entrepreneurial experiences; who respond to dynamic, ever-changing challenges with agility and ownership and who want to pursue unique career opportunities and play a part in building the bright future of this plant-based company. **Job Scope**: ekaterra tea business is under separation from Unilever. The person of this role will assist in coordinating and follow up the Marketing separation activities, TSA (Temporary Service Agreement) exits, cross workstream and/or cross region interdependencies, contributing to build up the new way of working. Arabia Project Manager position is a member of the Ekaterra Project Blossom team and reports to Arabia Country Lead with purpose of setting up the Ekaterra end state operating model in Arabia in every function. **Roles & Responsibilities** : - Assist in management of the entire project; establish and maintain continuous relations with internal /external customers, - Work for the TSA execution & TSA exit plans in the interim period, - Align with the central project teams, - Manage knowledge transfer and capability building upon completion of the project, - Regularly report, to the relevant teams/businesses, on project progress, issues, risks, conflicts, and changes to plans. Ensuring these project issues, risks, conflicts are dealt with effectively and mitigated appropriately, - Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path, proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans, as well as delegate accordingly, - Review process effectiveness regularly and recommend and implement ways to improve, - Work in close coordination with all internal departments by assuming leadership role in the development efforts and project of the company, **Role requirements**: - Bachelor's degree in relevant studies - Minimum 5-7 years of experience in FMCG or relevant industries - Having multicultural environment exposure in a matrix structure, - Having OE / PM certification or in progress - Project management, systems transformation, complex cross functional network and change management experience, - Exposed to the global roll out projects - Gained experience in successfully delivered similar divestiture / separation, and/or acquisition projects in similarly large, complex environments. - Ability to perform in an environment of ambiguity and influence decisions, - Analytical thinking, creative problem-solving ability, - Time consciousness, diligence, flexibility, and interest to accept more responsibility, able to take initiative and give proper decisions timely, - Foreign language knowledge: English. **Stakeholder Management and key interfaces** - This role is a one - year contract - To be fully authorized/empowered about its work and responsibilities