Project Director L2-EXt
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About the Role
Alstom is seeking an experienced Project Director to lead high-criticality railway projects in Riyadh. You will drive project execution ensuring quality, cost, delivery, and planning performance while managing cross-functional teams and stakeholder relationships.
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Responsibilities
- Ensure accountability for project Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Planning (QCDP) performance
- Define and implement project governance strategies in line with contract requirements
- Manage project resources, including staffing the core team and leading multi site teams
- Lead and coordinate project activities from transfer to close out
- Engage internal and external stakeholders to foster alignment towards project goals
- Oversee alignment with contractual requirements, manage variation orders and claims
- Proactively manage risks, savings, and opportunities
- Monitor and report project progress and KPIs to senior management
- Build and manage strong relationships with customers and external stakeholders
- Maintain compliance with applicable rules, standards, and policies
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in project management in the railway industry
- 5 years managing medium critical projects
- Knowledge of project management processes, railway products, and systems
- Team management and cross functional collaboration skills
- Leadership and entrepreneurship mindset
- Conflict and crisis management expertise
- Advanced customer relationship and stakeholder alignment skills
- Proficiency in complexity and risk management
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Your future role
- Take on a new challenge and apply your project management expertise in a new cutting edge field.
- You'll drive the execution of high criticality projects, ensuring they meet contractual requirements, customer expectations, and organizational goals.
- Work closely with teams across the business (including tender, engineering, and operations teams).
We’ll look to you for
- Ensuring accountability for project Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Planning (QCDP) performance, while optimizing the project’s financial performance, including margin and cash.
- Defining and implementing project governance strategies in line with contract requirements, including Project Management Plan (PMP) elaboration and allocation of objectives to subsystems.
- Managing project resources effectively, including staffing the project core team, escalating resource gaps, and leading multi site/multi functional teams to achieve project objectives.
- Leading and coordinating project activities and stakeholders from transfer to close out, ensuring proper transfer from tender to project and alignment with customer satisfaction goals.
- Engaging internal and external project stakeholders, fostering alignment towards project goals, and synchronizing internal partners while arbitrating when necessary.
- Overseeing alignment with contractual requirements, managing variation orders, and addressing claims or litigations as needed.
- Proactively managing risks, savings, and opportunities to ensure successful project delivery.
- Monitoring and reporting project progress and KPIs to senior management with transparency, ensuring adherence to business and critical project review processes.
- Building and managing strong relationships with customers and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements and effective contract management.
- Maintaining compliance with applicable rules, standards, and policies, including Alstom’s Code of Ethics & Compliance, EHS, Railway Safety, and Quality standards.
All About You
- Experience or understanding of project management in the railway industry, with at least 15 years of experience, including 5 years managing medium critical projects.
- Knowledge of project management processes, railway products, and systems.
- Familiarity with multi national business cultures and cross functional collaboration.
- Team management skills, including the ability to coordinate and collaborate with multi site/multi functional teams.
- Leadership and entrepreneurship mindset with a results oriented approach.
- Conflict and crisis management expertise.
- Advanced skills in managing customer relationships and stakeholder alignment.
- Proficiency in complexity and risk management.
- Capacity to navigate political contexts and manage contractual requirements effectively.
Things you’ll enjoy
- Enjoy stability, challenges and a long term career free from boring daily routines.
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
- Work with multi national, multi functional teams to deliver high criticality projects in the railway industry.
- Progress towards becoming a leader in project management, while honing your skills in negotiation, conflict resolution, and complexity management.
- Utilise our dynamic and inclusive working environment that fosters leadership, resilience, adaptability, and a continuous learning mindset.
- Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension).
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