About UsAs a leader in luxury retail in the Middle East, Al Tayer Group's retail division, Al Tayer Insignia, hosts a portfolio of some of the worlds best luxury brands in the fashion, jewellery, home and department store categories. Complementing its position in luxury retail, Al Tayer Insignia has also built new frontiers in lifestyle retail, representing leading brands in the Beauty, Home, Fashion and Hospitality sectors. Our brands include Bloomingdales, Harvey Nichols and Armani to name just a few!About The RoleAs a Senior Project Manager - Retail JV Portfolio, you will take part in the management of Al Tayer Retail JV Portfolio initiatives in support of its strategic goals and ongoing commitments of the business. This role will be the secondary point of contact with multiple stakeholders including Commercial heads, Legal team, Brand principals and first point of contact for Joint Venture (JV) partners to achieve targets for JV projects. The manager will act as JV PMO managing cross-functional work streams, timelines and deliverables. The manager will also manage the day-2-day operational portfolio governance. Lastly, the manager will also be accountable for business process mapping and improvements in relation to JV shared service provision.What Youll Be DoingStrategic Roles and Responsibilities:\xc2\xb7 Serves as a point of contact with the JV partners, Brand principals and other key stakeholders\xc2\xb7 Advise JV company members on operational matters related to JV formation & shared service integration.\xc2\xb7 Shares responsibility of the hub of JV activities and shares accountability for JV activities and deliverables\xc2\xb7 Project manage activities needed for a JV conversion\xc2\xb7 Manage portfolio governance activitiesFunctional Roles and Responsibilities:Project Management\xc2\xb7 To Act as PMO and manage interface between Joint Venture Partners, Brand Principals and various internal stakeholders and disciplines such as commercial operations, legal, finance, risk and audit to ensure that the companys best interest are served, and the JV agreements can be executed successfully.\xc2\xb7 To co-manage schedules, budgets, resources and deliverables for Joint Ventures and other portfolio negotiations\xc2\xb7 To deliver and manage the full project lifecycle from planning, requirements gathering, design to implementation and go-live\xc2\xb7 To Ensure that are projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget with adequate resourcing and vendor management in place\xc2\xb7 To Ensure effective Stakeholder management for each project to ensure all relevant stakeholders are adequately engaged to support the achievement of the expected project outcomes.\xc2\xb7 To Manage program and project-level risks, actions issues and decisions (RAID), implementing effective mitigation action plans and escalating any high priority concerns to the Head of Finance and Senior Leadership in a timely fashion.\xc2\xb7 Manage documentation, approvals and governance activities of new and existing JVs\xc2\xb7 Supports and coordinates the establishment of all necessary legal documentation supporting the JV formation and implementation (i.e. Shareholders agreement, Management fees, etc.) from a financial and project management perspective\xc2\xb7 Monitors and administers the execution of the JV agreement throughout the full JV lifecycle, resolving any potential issues.\xc2\xb7 Supports the JV Senior Manager in ensuring that the that the ATR interests and rights, as the JV partner, are protected throughout the JV lifecycle.\xc2\xb7 Leads knowledge sharing sessions across to share end of stage project lessons learned and work with the internal stakeholders to identify appropriate responses as required.Portfolio Governance\xc2\xb7 Coordinate (through PAs) the scheduling of board meetings and general meetings.\xc2\xb7 Ensure board meetings and general meetings are compliant with constitutional documents and laws and regulations\xc2\xb7 Maintain meeting minutes and company resolutions.\xc2\xb7 Arrange for signing of internal contracts and prescribed documents from shareholders and/or directors.\xc2\xb7 Responsible for document control, ensuring the documents are reviewed and signed off by the relevant departmental heads.\xc2\xb7 Monitor compliance of portfolio companies with certain laws and regulations regarding AML, UBO, KYC, permanent establishment, ESR, filing of financials (where applicable), and any other areas as required.\xc2\xb7 Assist in monitoring portfolio companies compliance with terms of shareholders agreement and other relevant agreements, and report findings to management.\xc2\xb7 Assist on ensuring the portfolio governance framework is appropriately developed, established, and maintained.Business Process Management\xc2\xb7 When required, evaluate, plan, and implement improvements in processes, practices and organizational effectiveness.\xc2\xb7 Actively lead projects an d provide individual contributions after key projects have been identified.\xc2\xb7 Demonstrate thought leadership through participation or leadership of stakeholder/advisory groups and presentations.\xc2\xb7 Proactively communicate and collaborate with different teams to define and implement improvement projects.\xc2\xb7 Ensure proper governance through documentation, audits of non-conformity and providing process insights and reporting to process owners.Job RequirementsEducation and experience:

• Bachelors degree education with relevant professional qualification.
• PMO experience and project management qualification required
• Minimum 7 to 10 years experience, preferably in consulting and/or PMO
• Retail sector & regional experience a plus

Knowledge and Skills:

• Demonstrable some commercial knowledge of JVs and investment projects
• Communication, presentation, and facilitation skills with the ability to lead and facilitate group meetings with senior stakeholders and external vendors.
• Demonstrated track record of relationship building with more senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency with project management tools
• Excellent communicator and comfortable managing multiple tasks.
• Excellent Communication skills, Arabic is added advantage.

Additional Requirements:

• Exceptional attention to detail
• High integrity with strong work ethic
• Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple parallel projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with stakeholders
• Willingness to stretch into corporate governance field

Additional Information

• Job Detail: PMO - Retail - Luxury

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