DP World Career – Operational Resilience Project Lead

Job Description:

The Operational Resilience Project Manager will support the Business Resilience Manager in building and embedding DP World’s capability to prevent, withstand and adapt to threats and shocks to our people, business or reputation. This is a Fixed Term Contract Role.

The role aim is to lead complex projects that will make a fundamental difference to the resilience of the DP World business, in particular, the successful implementation of DP World’s new emergency mass notification project.

This Senior Specialist is an excellent communicator and relationship builder, using these skills to successfully manage and deliver resilience projects in DP World.

Job Responsibilities:

• Deliver programme reporting and tracking documentation, including multiple work streams and projects across functions, and present structured senior management updates.
• Day-to-day support for execution of programmes and projects impacting Group wide resiliency efforts; coordination of teams across Group Security; Communications; HSE; People and Technology.
• Regular production and maintenance of key documentation including project plans, status reports, issue logs, etc.
• Enforce governance structure and project management discipline and drive execution with detailed project plans, including definition of roles, responsibilities and milestones.
• Working with functional and business stakeholders to understand key business needs, translate those into a clear, actionable demand and track overall book of work for the team.
• Responsibilities will include assisting in the oversight of resilience initiatives by organising and executing on-time delivery of key strategic priorities and objectives.
• Act as an ambassador for DP World at all times when working; promoting and demonstrating positive behaviours in harmony with DP World’s Principles, values and culture; ensuring the highest level of safety is applied in all activities; understanding and following DP World’s Code of Conduct and Ethics policies
• Manage key resilience projects and initiatives, ensuring stakeholder engagement, status updates, and issue escalation. Support other Programme/Project managers
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Full responsibility for project management of DP World’s emergency mass notification project, including key programme and project deliverables and milestones

Job Requirements:

• Capacity to execute on a broad vision rather than execution on specific tasks; must understand ‘how it all ties together’.
• Strong, confident, and clear verbal communications skills to ensure that the project status is effectively documented and understood.
• Comfort with ambiguity and change as components of role can be fluid and defined over time as business needs evolve.
• Ability to work collaboratively and to develop strong, positive working relationships across a matrixed organisation.
• Extreme attention to detail and ability to work independently.
• Ability to quickly learn and assimilate business and technical knowledge.
• Strong influence and negotiation skills.
• Highly developed executive level presentation skills – ability to develop materials and messaging with little oversight.
• Must be comfortable challenging and pushing back on veracity of updates and status provided by more senior stakeholders when necessary.
• Creative problem solver, comfortable asking ‘what are the other options?’
• Strong technical background a plus.
• Understanding of resilience methodologies.

Qualification & Experience:

• Demonstrable experience successfully managing enterprise-wide programmes.
• Recognisable (accredited) project management qualification (e.g. APM, CPMP, PINCE2, CSM, PMP etc.)
• Experience coordinating medium-to-large sized projects or processes across multiple teams/constituents.

Job Details:

Company: DP World

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Dubai, UAE

Application Deadline: N/A

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