Project Manager - Passengers Experience
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**Job Description** 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. **Roles \& Responsibilities** Strategy * Lead the full
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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
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