Publicis Sapient Hiring for Senior Associate Agile Program Management Job at Dubai Full Time

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Your Impact:

• End-to-end program management of all digital projects from inception to go-live, including process mapping and project reporting.
• Assist in running client relationships, client meetings, and client workshops
• Develop relationships with our client and vendor partners. Provide day-to-day contact for clients on track related communications and foster teamwork with UX, Content, Technology and SME’s for project delivery
• Lead project estimations and staffing and ensure that projects complete according to schedule and within budget
• Handle a project life-cycle from beginning to end –seeing the big picture as you go while maintaining reliability and continual follow-through
• Establish and maintain processes to run scope over the project lifecycle

Your Skills & Experience:

• At least 5 years project management experience in successfully delivering marketing and technology solutions; consulting and digital experience preferred.
• Solid grasp of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, handle risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations and run team meetings.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Content Management systems (Adobe, Sitecore, Drupal), content and data migration, the ins and outs of branded websites and responsive web design.
• Knowledge of software creation processes, web technologies, web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components.
• Comfort with Agile work practices. You are able to run effective standups, reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning and releases.
• Personality! Should have a sense of humor and be able to see the funny side of life. An enthusiastic participant and a thoughtful observer when the moment calls for it.
• Cool in unpredictable circumstances. Thrive in ambiguous environments, and in informal, loosely structured work environments.
• You get your stuff done and know how to give proper estimates.

Additional Information

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Experience in resource management from a consulting/technology firm with rapidly changing project needs
• Experience in staffing/handling workforce solutions within the financial services industry is a plus
• Project/Program Manager experience with the ability to manage complex initiatives to successful completion
• Excellent Excel skills (pivot tables, v-lookups, filtering, and sorting, etc.)