Program Manager - Airports

Posted 21 Days Ago
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Riyadh, SAU
In-Office
Mid level
Information Technology
The Role
Lead delivery of a portfolio/stream of airport projects, managing cross-project planning, schedule, budget, risks, suppliers and stakeholders. Ensure quality, safety, compliance, readiness and transition while coordinating multidisciplinary and vendor teams and developing project managers within a governed program environment.
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Job Description:

Role Purpose

The Program Manager

Airports lead the delivery of a major stream or set of related projects within the airport programs, accountable for coordinated delivery of scope, schedule, cost, quality and benefits across multiple projects.

Operating under the Program Director, the role drives cross-project planning, dependency management and delivery, ensuring workstreams combine into a coherent, on-track programs in a 24/7 operational environment.

Key Responsibilities

Programme-Stream Delivery

  • Plan and deliver a portfolio of related projects, managing cross-project dependencies and integration.
  • Own the stream schedule, budget and resource plan; track progress and manage the critical path.
  • Coordinate technical, operational and vendor teams to achieve delivery objectives.

Risk, Change & Governance

  • Own stream-level RAID and change control; escalate to the Program Director and PMO as required.
  • Assure quality, safety, security and compliance; support readiness, transition and go-live.
  • Operate within program governance and standards.

Commercial & Stakeholder

  • Manage stream budget, forecasting and supplier performance.
  • Build strong relationships with client, operational and vendor stakeholders.
  • Lead and develop project managers and teams within the stream.

Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Program/multi-project delivery: Proven experience managing multiple related projects or a delivery stream to time, cost and quality.
  • Methodology: Strong command of program/project methods (PMI/PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, agile/hybrid).
  • Planning & control: Skilled in cross-project planning, dependency, budget and risk management.
  • Leadership: Ability to lead project managers and multi-disciplinary, multi-vendor teams.
  • Stakeholder management: Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Desirable

  • Experience in aviation, airports or comparable 24/7 critical-infrastructure environments.
  • Familiarity with airport programs (terminal openings, ORAT/transition).
  • Exposure to MSI delivery models.
  • Programs/project certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP) and/or SAFe.

Qualifications

  • Degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
  • Program/project certification strongly preferred (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent).

Key Competencies

Delivery accountability - cross-project orchestration - planning - stakeholder influence - risk management - leadership - resilience - customer focus.

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Skills Required

  • Proven experience managing multiple related projects or a delivery stream to time, cost and quality
  • Strong command of program/project methods (PMI/PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, agile/hybrid)
  • Skilled in cross-project planning, dependency, budget and risk management
  • Ability to lead project managers and multi-disciplinary, multi-vendor teams
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills
  • Degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
  • Program/project certification (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent)
  • Experience in aviation, airports or comparable 24/7 critical-infrastructure environments
  • Familiarity with airport programs (terminal openings, ORAT/transition)
  • Exposure to MSI delivery models
  • Programs/project certifications and/or SAFe

DXC Technology Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about DXC Technology and has not been reviewed or approved by DXC Technology.

  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage includes multiple national carrier options and plan types, with HSA eligibility where applicable. Feedback suggests the medical, dental, and vision lineup is broad and comparable to large-firm offerings.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) program with employer matching and an annual true-up is available, with standard vesting provisions. This structure can help employees capture matching contributions over the year if contribution rates vary.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Flexible or “unlimited” vacation is offered for many U.S. roles instead of accrual-based PTO. Feedback suggests the approach can support work-life balance when team norms allow adequate time away.

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Year Founded: 2017

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DXC Technology is a Fortune 500 global IT services leader. Our more than 130,000 people in 70-plus countries are entrusted by our customers to deliver what matters most. We use the power of technology to deliver mission critical IT services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive business impact. DXC is an employer of choice with strong values, and fosters a culture of inclusion, belonging and corporate citizenship. We are DXC.

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