Nair Systems is currently looking for Senior Project Manager for our UAE operations.
Required Skills & Experience
Experience: (8–10+ years)
• Extensive project management experience in financial services, regulatory environments, or national scale transformation programmes.
• Strong PMO governance capability with proven delivery of complex, multi stakeholder programmes.
• Advanced PowerPoint skills (executive level storytelling, deck structuring, visual clarity).
• Strong MS Excel capability (tracking models, readiness dashboards, risk logs, dependency mapping).
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders, steering committees, and regulatory bodies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead junior PMs and coordinate cross functional teams.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification preferred.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Governance & Delivery Management
• Maintain core PMO artefacts (charter, governance model, RACI, plans, registers).
• Run programme cadence: steering committees, working groups, decisions, and escalations.
• Track progress, risks, dependencies, and ensure timely sign offs.
• Prepare high quality PowerPoint decks, decision papers, and structured updates.
Stakeholder & Communication Management
• Coordinate with regulatory, industry, and internal stakeholders.
• Manage structured communication, expectations, and readiness across all parties.
• Present updates clearly and confidently using PPT storytelling and executive ready slides.
Onboarding & Readiness
• Oversee business onboarding activities for participating institutions.
• Ensure frameworks, playbooks, and readiness criteria are applied consistently.
• Support training, readiness assessments, and issue resolution.
Cross Functional Coordination
• Align business and technical workstreams with the platform provider.
• Support joint activities such as training, onboarding preparation, and limited UAT coordination.
• Ensure clarity of roles, ownership, and dependencies across teams.
Transition to Operations
• Facilitate the setup of operational support functions (L1/L2).
• Ensure structures, resources, and processes are defined for BAU operations.
• Track and manage the transition from programme delivery into steady state.
Personal Attributes
• Highly organised, structured, and detail oriented.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to anticipate issues.
• Mature stakeholder handling and cross functional collaboration.
• Calm, solution oriented, and comfortable in high visibility environments.
• Able to work with discipline, clarity, and consistency in a regulated ecosystem.
Joining time frame: 2 weeks (maximum 1 month)
Should you be interested in this opportunity, please send your latest resume in MS Word format at the earliest