PROJECT MANAGER- OPERATIONS

Doha, Doha, Qatar

Job purpose: To manage all levels of the projects assigned including identifying issues, providing solutions, delegating tasks and monitoring progress to stay on schedule and on budget. The job also involves frequent communication about projects with departments, a hospital board or others who control budget decisions.

Main tasks and responsibilities (the position exist to perform the below tasks and essential activities)

• Contribute to the development and execution of the project’s short to mid-term plans to ensure alignment with the HealthCare’s strategic priorities and contribute to the development of annual business plans for the assigned areas of responsibility to support the achievement of financial objectives.
• Monitor, control, and report key performance indicators related to the department, to track performance and recommend corrective actions.
• Manage the performance management, career progression and activities of direct reports by setting annual objectives, identifying training opportunities, mentoring, coaching, and providing constructive feedback to improve their performance.
• Contribute with ideas that support an efficient and effective structure and resource allocation for the project, to ensure smooth workflow of operational processes and optimal utilization of resources.
• Works with Clinical and Operation units, with a focus to improve the efficiency and quality of the delivery output/healthcare services.
• Facilitates process improvements and ensures the process implemented meets the needs and expectations of the hospital.
• Creates and maintains a detailed project plan for all aspects of the project based on delivery methodology and project impact, partnering with various teams cross functionally to secure tasks, and tracking key dates.
• Manages project execution, resource deployment, and overall coordination efforts to ensure projects are completed on schedule.
• Establishes and actively manages all project and key stakeholder expectations and relationships, manages deliverables from all functional teams ensuring they meet the defined timeline and quality based on project guidelines.
• Provide input into the preparation and consolidation of the project’s budget, monitor financial performance during the year and identify areas of unsatisfactory performance (if any), and recommend mitigating actions.
• Manage multiple medium to large sized projects. These projects may include both client-facing and internal projects.
• Focus carefully on triple constraint (scope, schedule, and resources) management with an emphasis on early risk identification and management.
• Identify opportunities for workflow redesign and optimization as needed.
• Ensure that projects and tasks within projects are being properly sequenced in order to achieve all project business objectives in a timely fashion.
• Coordinate activities of functional departments involved in the project; in some cases, the multi-functional project management lead will have to take direct responsibility for the clinical subspecialty functional area.
• Provide input into the development and implementation of the project’s policies, systems, processes, and procedures, identifying potential areas of improvement, to support an efficient and effective operation.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant HSE&E and QM policies, procedures, and controls across the project to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high-quality service standards and a responsible environmental attitude.

Education requirements

• Graduate degree in the related discipline (Essential) | Post Graduate Degree in Project Management (Preferred)

Language requirements

• English – Fluent (Required) 
• Arabic – Fluent (Preferred)

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

• Minimum 12 years of experience (required)
• 6 Years Managerial Experience
  
• Minimum 3 years in GCC (preferred)
• Strong Knowledge of the Healthcare industry

• Extensive experience in design & build healthcare projects
• From a Construction Management or PM Consultancy background with a major blue chip / international or consultancy
• Must have healthcare experience.
• Local industry knowledge and understanding of the approvals system by the relevant authorities is an added advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Must attend all mandatory health and safety training courses.
• Must be reliable and adaptive to emergency situations

Core & leadership Competencies:

• Agility- Proficient
• Strives for Innovation - Proficient
• Promotes Teamwork - Proficient
• Shows Entrepreneurial Spirit - Proficient
• Demonstrates Resilience - Proficient
• Cultivates Loyalty & Integrity - Proficient
• Demonstrates Accountability - Proficient
• Drives Performance - Proficient
• Develops Future Leaders - Proficient
• Creates Strategy - Proficient