I.T Portfolio Manager at Emirates Airline & Group

Type: Full-time
Experience: Executive
Function: Information Technology
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Salary: To be discussed at interview
Posted: February 10, 2008

The Emirates Group is a highly profitable business with a turnover of approximately US$ 9 billion and over 34,000 employees. The Group comprises of Dnata, the successful Airport Ground Services and Travel Industry division, and Emirates, the Group's rapidly expanding and award winning international Airline. Emirates global network now sees it flying to over 90 destinations in 60 countries, and with aircraft orders worth over $US 35 billion identified, Emirates fleet will grow to over 200 wide-bodied jets by 2013, with many more destinations coming on line. With the Group now hiring over 5,000 new staff every year, essential to business success will be the ongoing employment of high quality people to join our multi-cultural team of over 135 nationalities. Dubai, a tourism centre and modern cosmopolitan city with high standards of healthcare, education and leisure pursuits for residents offers one of the most desirable lifestyle locations in the world. In addition to lifestyle and tax free salary benefits, the Emirates Group also offers professional development opportunities to help employees develop new skills and grow their careers successfully. These are both internal through e-Learning and leadership development courses and external through relationships with tertiary institutions globally, including Executive education programmes at world class Business Schools and Universities.

The Position: We are recruiting for an IT Portfolio Manager who will play a strategic role in overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of IT investments – from defining and targeting the investment mix to planning the portfolio structure - projects, asset and discovery, packaging and communicating the portfolio plan, and tracking and measuring results.

This job will have a lead role in the identification, analysis, valuation and execution of all IT investments, and would be the owner for the Portfolio Management process defined within the IT Strategy and Architecture team. Key responsibilities will require you to:

Be the Process Owner for the Project Portfolio Management process for Emirate Group IT. This would include leading the definition, development, presentation of the IT portfolio. Monitoring and reporting the status of the IT portfolio for re-balancing and re-prioritization would be an integral part of this job role.

IT Governance in the area of projects through continuous monitoring, evaluation and assessment of risk as part of the lifecycle analysis of portfolio components would be a key role. The frequency of reporting to the IT Executive team would be monthly and the Portfolio Review Board (comprising of select DSVPs, SVPs across the organisation) would be quarterly.

Drive the communication plan for Portfolio Management across the EG-IT organization and Emirates Group, as well as with appropriate external stakeholders. This would include monthly reporting to IT Executive team, quarterly reporting to the Portfolio Review Board and the yearly update to the IT Steering Board for IT budget approvals.

Salary & Benefits: We offer an attractive tax-free salary, paid in Dirhams, the local currency of the UAE.

Experience and Qualifications:

- A minimum of a B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science, Business Administration or other relevant field (required).

- A Masters level qualification in business administration or computer science (preferred).


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www.emiratesgroupcareers.com

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