Project Manager

Location: Amman, Amman Governorate, Jordan

Department: Delivery Management

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

Description

Optimiza is seeking to hire a Project Manager, who is responsible for leading multi projects across different company business units, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within scope, & on budget. This role involves leading the project team, managing resources, & facilitating communication between stakeholders to drive successful project delivery

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning & Execution: Plan, initiate, and manage projects using appropriate methodologies, including defining scope, requirements, timelines, schedules, and deliverables.
• Stakeholder & Team Coordination: Collaborate with business units, technical leads, PLMs, clients, and other stakeholders to align requirements, responsibilities, resources, and project objectives.
• Resource & Requirements Management: Identify and allocate technical resources, tools, software, and personnel based on project needs, while documenting technical requirements and specifications.
• Risk, Issue & Change Management: Identify and monitor project risks and issues, develop mitigation and resolution plans, and assess and manage changes to project scope and requirements.
• Quality & Testing Oversight: Coordinate with QA teams and clients to ensure quality standards are met and testing activities, including UAT, are properly planned and executed.
• Project Governance & Reporting: Maintain accurate project documentation and records, including status reports, MOMs, delay logs, SRSs, BRDs, and change requests, while ensuring compliance with PMO governance.
• Travel Requirement: The role requires a high level of international travel, with the potential for up to 80% of working time outside Jordan.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Information Technology, or related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in project management, with proven experience in managing projects within the government sector.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) & OUM.
• Experience with Agile Project Mgt. tools such as JIRA
• Advance experience with Agile methodologies, such as: Scrum or Kanban.
• Intermediate to advance MS project experience.
• Intermediate to Advance MS office (PowerPoint, excel, word...etc.) experience.
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Teams, Zoom, Slack..etc..
• Experience with documentation tools such as Slab, Notion.
• Experience in organizing project Repositories using tools such as GitHub, SharePoint, Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Drive).

Benefits

• Annual Bonus

• Class A Health Insurance
• Training & Development