{bc}
linkedin

Project Manager - Passengers Experience

Dubai Careers - A Smart Dubai Initiative
Dubai, UAE
Fulltime
Mid-Senior
3 months ago
CRMCybersecurityPMPProject Management
Free

Job Fit Check

Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.

?%
Ready to Scan

Key skills for this role

CRMCybersecurityPMP
Smart Apply

Full Job Posting

Job Purpose

Oversee end-to-end delivery of card & ticketing, revenue collection, AFC, and passenger information

projects, ensuring timely completion, executive reporting, and close coordination with the Marketing

& Corporate Communication (MCC) team to drive awareness, ridership, and boost customer

satisfaction across Dubai Metro & Tram.

Strategy

  • Lead the full project governance lifecycle for passenger experience initiatives, including scope
  • and resource planning, cross-functional execution, risk and alignment monitoring, and
  • structured closure with documented lessons learned.
  • Plan and approve project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, and risk registers, secure
  • finance approval and conduct studies on future fare revenues and projected passenger
  • growth to guide long-term planning, supporting data-driven enhancements across passenger
  • information systems
  • Define and update fare structures, tariff policies, and marketing plans to curb evasion, grow
  • revenue, and align with RTA objectives, while setting KPIs for O&M contractor performance in
  • AFC operations, revenue reporting, and customer service.
  • Approve tariff structures, cryptographic key issuance, and disaster-recovery procedures to
  • safeguard revenue streams, information assets, and operational resilience.
  • Manage projects related to digital transformation and information publication kiosk
  • initiatives, ensuring seamless integration, user accessibility, and alignment with RTA’s
  • passenger experience vision.

Operations

  • Monitor AFC central systems, station devices, car-park fare systems, and parking collections,
  • verifying data integrity, SAM card deployment, KPI compliance, and cybersecurity across
  • operator systems.
  • Prepare and review high-level executive reports, including the Chairman’s summary,
  • highlighting project performance, revenue outcomes, and key passenger experience
  • initiatives for leadership and stakeholder review.
  • Liaise with MCC to ensure consistent messaging across digital and physical platforms, and
  • oversee publication of key passenger and stakeholder communications, integrating updates
  • into Passenger Information Hub channels to ensure unified, real-time communication.
  • Coordinate with Finance, ACS, and Rail teams on revenue distribution, audits, reconciliations,
  • and cash-security measures; manage daily financial settlements; and ensure operator
  • compliance with tariff laws, ticket inspections, and revenue-protection procedures.
  • Oversee AFC implementation in new projects, supervising construction, commissioning,
  • integration, factory tests, and operational readiness, including software and hardware
  • upgrades.
  • Roll out fare-table changes, tariff schedule amendments, publicity materials, and multichannel
  • passenger information across all outlets, while coordinating service updates,
  • vending-machine locations, and touchpoints.
  • Supervise operator handling of complaints, appeals, and grievances, ensuring timely closure
  • in CRM systems in coordination with Authority committees.
  • Supervise operator maintenance of AFC hardware, software, communication systems, and
  • CCTV, enforcing preventive/corrective measures, obsolescence management, and KPI
  • standards.

Product And Process Improvement

  • Analyze AFC faults, software failures, system performance, passenger-flow data, ridership,
  • and revenue trends; prepare reports; and recommend technology or procedural
  • enhancements to improve accuracy, uptime, customer satisfaction, and revenue.
  • Implement corrective actions based on passenger-satisfaction surveys, mystery-shopper
  • findings, SLA reviews, and lessons-learned exercises, embedding improvements into future
  • projects and departmental procedures.
  • Benchmark AFC performance, implementation methodologies, audit processes, and
  • marketing strategies against global best practices to ensure continuous improvement.
  • Draft and review tenders, SLAs, upgrade documents, and contracts, embedding AI, analytics,
  • cybersecurity requirements, and international standards and provide expert advice in
  • governance, bid analysis, and interdepartmental initiatives.

Physical Working Conditions

  • Conduct site inspections during installation, testing, commissioning, and equipment
  • validation; be available after hours for critical cutovers, audits, or fault-resolution activities.

Education

Bachelor degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Transportation Management or Business Administration from a recognized university with PMP/Masters Certificates.

Experience

6+ Years in case of Master’s degree (8+ years in case of Bachelor’s degree)

Schedule-Time

Full time

Apply for this job in 1 click

Skip the repetitive application forms

Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.

Sarah M.James T.Maya R.

Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career

Start Free Today

More from this employer

More jobs at Dubai Careers - A Smart Dubai Initiative