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Senior Project Manager Jobs in Doha, Qatar at Vistas Global

Title: Senior Project Manager

Company: Vistas Global

Location: Doha, Qatar

Job Purpose

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for planning, governing, coordinating, and delivering strategic projects and transformation initiatives across the Group. The role will establish and manage a fit-for-purpose PMO framework, ensuring projects remain aligned with strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, budgets, timelines, and operational priorities.

The incumbent will oversee multiple workstreams, coordinate internal stakeholders and external consultants, manage project risks, dependencies and issues, and provide concise, decision-ready reporting to senior management. The role will also ensure adherence to Group-wide operational standards, policies, procedures, industry best practices, and applicable laws and regulations.

Key Responsibilities

1. Program & PMO Governance

  • Establish and manage a robust PMO framework covering governance, planning, reporting, risk, issue, dependency, resource, and financial management.
  • Define and maintain program standards, templates, methodologies, controls, and reporting cadence.
  • Develop and maintain an integrated program plan covering all strategic transformation initiatives and workstreams through 2030.
  • Monitor project progress against approved scope, timelines, milestones, budgets, and benefits.
  • Ensure alignment between strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, business priorities, and project execution.
  • Prioritize, reschedule, and reallocate resources across projects based on business criticality and organizational priorities.
  • Ensure effective project governance throughout the complete project lifecycle.

2. Consultant & Vendor Management

  • Support procurement, evaluation, selection, contracting, and onboarding of external consultants and implementation partners.
  • Define clear scopes of work, deliverables, milestones, timelines, KPIs, and success criteria.
  • Act as the central coordination point between consultants, business teams, technology teams, and other stakeholders.
  • Monitor consultant and vendor performance against agreed deliverables, budgets, quality standards, and timelines.
  • Identify and resolve overlaps, gaps, dependencies, and inconsistencies across consultant deliverables.
  • Ensure external partners comply with organizational policies, PMO standards, and regulatory requirements.

3. Business Requirements & Delivery Oversight

  • Oversee the development, validation, and prioritization of comprehensive Business Requirements.
  • Ensure requirements are clearly traceable to strategic objectives and are suitable for downstream solution design and implementation.
  • Coordinate requirements gathering across business, operations, compliance, risk, technology, investment, and other relevant functions.
  • Identify and manage dependencies between business requirements, operating model changes, technology implementation, and transformation initiatives.
  • Provide guidance and support to project teams in resolving operational and delivery-related challenges.
  • Lead and coordinate system testing, UAT, implementation, go-live, product enhancements, and post-implementation activities.
  • Ensure appropriate change management and operational readiness before implementation.

4. Banking Operations & Product Management

  • Demonstrate strong understanding of banking applications, operational processes, products, and payment systems.
  • Work closely with business and operations teams to review existing products and processes and identify opportunities for:
  • Risk reduction
  • Automation
  • Productivity improvement
  • Cost optimization
  • Revenue enhancement
  • Improved customer experience
  • Support transformation initiatives across areas such as Home Banking, ATM Management, Card Management, Foreign Trade, Treasury, Payments, and other banking operations.
  • Ensure new and enhanced products/processes comply with applicable policies, procedures, controls, and regulatory requirements.
  • Identify operational risks and recommend best-practice solutions.

5. Stakeholder & Executive Management

  • Prepare concise, accurate, and decision-ready management reports, dashboards, presentations, and status updates.
  • Facilitate project steering committees, program governance forums, design authorities, and executive checkpoints.
  • Provide clear visibility of project status, key milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, financials, and required management decisions.
  • Act as a trusted interface between project sponsors, senior management, business leaders, consultants, technology teams, and delivery teams.
  • Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Escalate critical issues and risks appropriately and provide recommendations for resolution.

6. Project Delivery & Methodology

  • Manage projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation and requirements through implementation, go-live, and closure.
  • Apply appropriate Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid project management methodologies depending on project requirements.
  • Develop project plans, resource plans, milestones, budgets, RAID logs, communication plans, and implementation schedules.
  • Monitor project performance and take corrective action where required to maintain delivery commitments.
  • Manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously.
  • Ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk parameters.

7. Operations Management & Continuous Improvement

  • Support capacity planning, resource management, performance management, MIS, budgeting, and operational planning.
  • Analyze operational performance and identify opportunities for process optimization and automation.
  • Establish and monitor appropriate KPIs and operational performance indicators.
  • Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence across project and business teams.
  • Ensure projects comply with Group-wide policies, procedures, operational standards, industry best practices, and applicable laws and regulations.

8. Team Leadership & Coaching

  • Lead, motivate, organize, and empower project and cross-functional teams.
  • Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to project managers and team members.
  • Foster a collaborative and high-performance working environment.
  • Support team members in resolving complex project, operational, and technical challenges.
  • Promote knowledge sharing, accountability, and continuous professional development.

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Banking, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Information Technology, Marketing, or a related discipline.
  • Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience, preferably within an international bank, financial institution, or large-scale IT/operations environment.
  • Minimum 5–6 years of experience in a supervisory/management capacity, with significant responsibility for project/program management, banking operations, products, or business excellence.
  • Proven experience managing large-scale transformation programs and/or PMO functions.
  • Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects across business and technology functions.
  • Previous experience in banking operations, banking applications, payment systems, or financial services is highly desirable.

Required Skills & Competencies

Project & Program Management

  • Strong knowledge of project and program management methodologies, tools, and techniques.
  • Proven expertise in end-to-end project implementation and full project lifecycle management.
  • Strong knowledge of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
  • Excellent planning, scheduling, coordination, and prioritization skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders simultaneously.

Banking & Operations

  • Strong understanding of banking applications, payment systems, and operational processes.
  • Knowledge of:
  • Home Banking / Digital Banking
  • ATM Management Systems
  • Card Management Systems
  • Payment Systems
  • Foreign Trade
  • Treasury Products
  • Banking Operations and related products
  • Strong understanding of banking policies, procedures, controls, and applicable standards.
  • Ability to assess existing products/processes and recommend best practices to reduce risk, improve automation, productivity, revenue, and customer experience.

Leadership & Communication

  • Strong leadership and people-management skills.
  • Proven ability to motivate, organize, coach, and empower cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic.
  • Ability to work effectively within a multinational and multicultural environment.

Analytical & Business Skills

  • Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and planning capabilities.
  • Strong understanding of operations management, including capacity planning, performance management, MIS, and budgets.
  • Excellent customer-service orientation.
  • Strong ability to identify risks, dependencies, issues, and improvement opportunities.
  • Ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable project plans and measurable outcomes.

Key Competencies

  • Strategic Program Management
  • PMO Governance
  • Project Planning & Delivery
  • Banking Operations
  • Business Requirements Management
  • Transformation & Change Management
  • Risk & Issue Management
  • Vendor & Consultant Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Executive Reporting
  • Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
  • Process Optimization & Automation
  • Operational Excellence
  • Leadership & Coaching
  • Problem Solving & Decision Making
  • Financial & Resource Management
  • Regulatory & Policy Compliance

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