Manager - Transformation Integration and Delivery Support (1 Year Contract)

About Transguard Workforce Solutions and Role Overview

Transguard Workforce Solutions, a leading and trusted HR service provider in the UAE, with over ten years of experience and a proficient team, offers customized workforce solutions supporting organizations region-wide. We are recruiting a Manager for Transformation Integration and Delivery Support at a prestigious client's office in Dubai on a one-year contract basis.

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintain a comprehensive overview of transformation projects, including milestones, dependencies, and risks to facilitate effective planning and high-level visibility.
• Aggregate workstream data to present consolidated priorities, progress updates, delivery statuses, and interdependencies for informed decision-making.
• Monitor, verify, and sustain accurate, complete, and consistent portfolio data across all reporting deliverables.
• Spot and escalate any gaps, risks, dependencies, or delivery challenges to enable prompt resolution.
• Update and manage portfolio and project management databases aligned with approved project data and lifecycle stages.
• Assist in coordinating and sequencing activities across transformation workstreams to ensure alignment with timelines and delivery goals.
• Work collaboratively with transformation leaders, business stakeholders, and functional teams to maintain transparency and track initiative progress.
• Facilitate coordination between business units, digital teams, subject matter experts, and other functions to ensure integrated transformation delivery.
• Track project outcomes relative to expectations, raising alerts for deviations or risks for leadership review.
• Prepare structured governance materials including agendas, committee documentation, progress reports, and executive summaries to support governance forums.
• Consolidate stakeholder and workstream inputs to produce accurate governance reporting aligned with schedules.
• Maintain detailed records of governance activities—decisions, actions, escalations, and related follow-ups—ensuring accountability.
• Monitor and track post-meeting action items to ensure timely closure and visibility.
• Ensure all reporting outputs are precise, consistent, and conform to governance standards.
• Coordinate information sharing among stakeholders and across workstreams to support timely transformation reporting.
• Communicate with initiative owners regarding timelines, reporting obligations, dependencies, and follow-up activity to promote delivery discipline.
• Enable information exchange between the transformation management office, workstreams, and functional teams to maintain clarity and alignment.
• Summarize stakeholder updates into clear, structured reports for leadership review and decision making.
• Support ongoing communication across transformation efforts to keep stakeholders informed on priorities, progress, and next steps.

Qualifications and Skills

• Proficiency in advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for data tracking, analytics, reporting, and professional presentation creation.
• Experience managing integrated plans, trackers, action and RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs, and portfolio-wide reporting tools.
• Familiarity with dashboarding and data visualization platforms like Power BI or Tableau.
• Knowledge of project/program portfolio management and tracking software such as Microsoft Project, Planner, Jira, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong documentation capabilities, including report writing and executive summary preparation.
• Analytical skills to interpret progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, and trend performance metrics.
• Excellent stakeholder coordination abilities managing multiple workstreams and cross-functional teams.
• Experience supporting governance forums, including managing reporting cycles, tracking action items, and documenting decisions.