Project Manager - IT
Summary
IT Project Manager leading end-to-end delivery of digital initiatives using Agile practices, managing SaaS vendor relationships, budgets, and geographically distributed teams at Qatar Airways.
Job Purpose:
This role will be responsible for managing and successfully deliver assigned IT projects and solutions in compliance with the project standards and processes of the QR IT, to meet defined business requirements within agreed timescales and cost. Lead the Projects throughout the project phases from initiation to closure, technical delivery, support and enhancement of the complete solution. This includes managing application support within assigned LOBs. Contribute to Business – IT strategy and IT budgeting of the assigned line of business.
Your duties would include:
Lead end-to-end delivery of Digital Projects initiatives from inception through hypercare and transition to support.
Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, and delivery roadmap.
Establish project governance, milestones, dependencies, and release plans.
Ensure delivery within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality targets.
Drive resolution of project issues, blockers, and escalations.
Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
Manage product backlog execution in collaboration with Product Owners and Business stakeholders.
Track sprint velocity, burndown, team capacity, and release readiness.
Coordinate multiple Agile teams (PODs) working across concurrent workstreams.
Ensure Agile best practices are followed by onsite and offshore delivery teams.
Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate project progress, risks, and decisions.
Managed agreed work program and provide periodic updates to key business stakeholders
Drive procurement of new solutions and in obtaining internal alignment to complete technical evaluation and contract process
Manage relationships with SaaS providers (eCommerce platform, Search, CMS, Payments, DAM, PIM, CDN, etc.).
Monitor vendor deliverables, SLAs, KPIs, and contractual commitments.
Lead geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones.
Establish working agreements, communication plans, and delivery cadences.
Resolve cross-team dependencies and resource conflicts.
Maintain RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs.
Conduct regular risk assessments and develop mitigation and contingency plans. Escalate critical issues proactively and Manage third-party and vendor-related risks.
Prepare and manage project budgets and monitor budget consumptions
Track vendor invoices, contracts, and change requests.
Manage project financial reporting and benefits realization.
Ensure optimum utilization of project resources.
Key Accountabilities
Successful delivery of QDF Digital initiatives.
Achievement of project milestones and business outcomes.
Manage procurements process and ensure solutions are onboarded as planned
Effective vendor and stakeholder management.
High-performing Agile delivery teams.
Compliance with security, architecture, and governance standards.
Realization of business benefits and customer experience improvements.
Stable and reliable production deployments.
Be part of an extraordinary story:
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future and build the life you want while being part of an international community.
Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.
Together, everything is possible.