Project Manager

Darwinbox- one of Asia’s fastest Unicorns based out of DIFC, Dubai - is a mobile-first, AI-enabled cloud-based HR platform that partners with enterprises to unlock their HR potential. They automate an organization’s HR needs across the entire hire-to-retire employee lifecycle from Recruitment, Onboarding, Core transactions (Leave, attendance & Payroll) to engagement, Performance Management and People Analytics.

They support 800+ global enterprises covering 2+million employees across 143 countries (e.g., Nivea, Starbucks, Sephora, Zara, and AXA, along with Ghassan Aboud, Al Zayani, Property Finder, EFS Facilities Services, Jashanmal, Alinco, Lulu Group in the region). With marquee investors including the likes of Microsoft, Salesforce, Sequoia, TCV- they are the only Asian origin vendor on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant and are rated the highest globally at 4.8/5 Gartner’s customer review platform- Peer Insights.

Job Description:

• Centrally Managing end-to-end project life cycle and driving optimization of operating models.
• Provide a central repository for all projects and project information.
• Conducting governance calls to manage the processes for ongoing projects and ensuring project commitments are being met by Darwinbox’s implementation team as well as the Client’s implementation team.
• Capture project health and monitor resource allocation and provide insights into processes and frameworks that work.
• Ability to use Project management tools and track/review projects using these tools.
• Review/prepare Gantt charts for projects and predict delays.
• Prepare status reports, highlight setbacks to the project timelines, proactively escalate potential red flags, and recommend mitigation solutions.
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent degree.
• 8+ years of relevant experience. Experience in project management for SaaS product implementations would be preferred.
• PMP/Prince2 Certified and proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Ability to work under pressure and adaptable to change.
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skill.