International Zone Project Management Head Cairo

**About the role**:
This is a senior role where **Success** requires strong strategic ability in co-construction, organization alignment, executive support/sponsorship, and measures of success with a structured, executive-level governance cadence.

As International Zone Project Management Head Cairo, your responsibilities will traverse multiple organizations and dimensions - Your strong/established network and organization astuteness will be a key enabler in this context.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Project Management is distributed across the International Zone, in regional teams as well as in central teams based in Egypt, India and Brazil. Teams across the centre work as a customer centric “one team” setup, irrespective of their role/location.
- Leads four Senior Business Project Management Leaders, one for each of the four territories within the European region hosting a single interface into the centre.
- In partnership with the Practice Leader, shape the Project Management (Predictive, Adaptive and Hybrid) strategy and methodologies within the International Zone.
- Hosting direct responsibility for 140+ people, with indirect 100+ people in the central organizations (India & Brazil).
- Responsible for developing and implementing the Project Management vision, strategy and Project Management programs across the International Zone organization while meeting the changing needs of our customers.
- Hosting/facilitating the required regional governance forums between central & regional PM, Global Delivery Organization & other entities interlinked with the global practice execution.
- In partnership with regional Project Leaders and Multi-Service delivery Leaders, is responsible for full project based P&L delivery assurances.
- Responsible, via the Project Management Practice Leader, for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the key practice components: People learning & development, methodology, digital data & project quality assurance to consistently deliver a quality and profitable project management service to our customers.
- Ensures project scope, schedule, and budget baselines are established, tracked and controlled through the full project lifecycles leading towards profitable P&L outcomes.
- With an agile and business mindset/spirit, enable active Project Management participation in the sales/pre-sales “selling” process on monetizing the Project Management services towards our customer.
- Identify critical metrics to assess and measure impact and results. Ensures established metrics are tracked, reported and reviewed on a regular basis.
- Collaborates with International Zone partners to ensure Project Management optimizes our business process and supports our customer experience.
- Supports and participates in continuous service improvement activities.
- Actively contributes towards EBITDaL improvement initiatives.

You will also be **representing the International Zone/customer ‘voice’ in cross-organizational forums to define territory strategic plans** (e.g. ODC, regional business reviews) while engaging/maintaining solid working relationships with OGSB, GDO and OINIS

You will host the ability to be an active Project Sponsor for the **larger scale customer Projects/Programs.**

**About you**:

- **University Degree required **in the Business and/or Telecommunications field - Specializations/higher education in related fields a bonus.
- **Formal Project Management accreditation required **(PMP/ACP), complementary (SAFe/DevOps).
- Language skills - **Fluent English required, both spoken and written**.
- Required hard skills:

- MS Office proficiency, Power-BI and Data visualization techniques
- Certifications in Programme Management and/or Portfolio Management beneficial. (MSP, MoP, PgMP, PfMP etc)
- Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies desirable

**Additional information**:
The International Zone Project Management Head Cairo will set a clear vision, strategy, program to promote a culture of excellence while following through in overall build P&L execution.

Will together with its peers, while using data modelling technologies, shape the Project Management capability through optimizing our process, procedures and tools.

The International Zone Project Management Head Cairo will work in co-construction with its peers, its European regional business owners and the Global Delivery Organization(GDO) Multi-Service delivery teams, to implement premium class Project Management disciplines and oversee the quality of project management delivery towards our customers.

In return, you will be rewarded by working in an empowering organisation with an overall objective of delivering ‘world class’ business value & a unique customer experience.

Programs driven by this function are of an international scope and require an extremely high level of:

- Strategic orientation, big-picture thinking, efficiency, autonomy and adaptability.
- A thorough Project Management mindset