Senior Director Agile Program Management - Travel & Hospitality

Publicis Sapient


Date: 14 hours ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time
Job Description

As Senior Program Director, you will lead large-scale, multi-dimensional initiatives enabling your clients Digital Business Transformation. You will partner with senior client executives and ultimately be accountable for the overall strategic shaping, planning, implementation, and effectiveness of work for client engagements. You will guide globally distributed teams to deliver successful software outputs and meaningful business outcomes for clients while influencing change

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

  • Experience with a distributed delivery model, leading diverse teams, and collaborating in a multi-cultural environment for end-to-end engagements
  • Experience in the Travel & Hospitality industry or has experience working on projects related to this sector.
  • Program management experience in scaled digital implementation leading high performing teams within IT and consulting environment
  • Effective systems thinking skills and ability to identify interconnectivity across multiple streams of work
  • Demonstrated experience navigating a large organization, showcasing the ability to influence with storytelling and data
  • Comfortable with C-suite reporting relationships and presenting to C-level executives, senior business leaders, and technology leaders
  • Knowledge of best practices in design thinking/user-centered design (e.g., user research, hypothesis-driven development, prototyping, and usability testing)
  • Experience with a variety of methodologies like scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe etc.), waterfall, and hybrid
  • Effective leadership, analytical skills, and negotiation skills
  • Effective conflict resolution skills

Additional Information

Set Yourself Apart With:

Fostering innovation and creative problem solving backed by a strategic fact-base

  • A passion for creating unprecedented customer experiences and innovative digital businesses
  • Experience in engaging and coaching c-level clients in highly strategic, critical business initiatives
  • Published thought leadership that pushes an industry leading POV on industry sector, technology, delivery, or organizational evolution
  • Deep experience in one or more of our industry verticals
  • CSM, CPSO, SAFe certified

A successful candidate acts as a fair and trusted strategic advisor for clients. You solve problems quickly – but for the long term, by leading teams to have a measurable impact on the client’s business. Your breadth and depth of highly strategic execution and political savviness enables you to effortlessly traverse complex organizations and supplier landscapes

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

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