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Our client is a leading real estate construction, development and project management entity, serving clients across three continents for over two decades with operations in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, now establishing their new office in the UAE.

• Reputation & image management for senior leadership and the wider group.
• Social media strategy & build-up to strengthen visibility across platforms.
• Elite networking & memberships - securing representation across clubs, forums, and cultural platforms (e.g. Tiger 21, Gatsby, socio-art circles, business clubs).
• Events & gatherings - designing and delivering high-profile events and exclusive forums.
• Marketing leadership - integrating PR with strategic marketing to reinforce both personal and corporate brand positioning.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with media outlets, journalists, and influencers.
• Act as the main point of contact for all external communications and media inquiries.
• Monitor media coverage and report on the effectiveness of PR campaigns.
• Manage crisis cstrategies to safeguard the company's reputation.
• Stay updated on market trends and industry developments to inform PR strategies.

A successful Public Relations Manager should have:

• A degree in public relations, communications, or a related field.
• Experience in managing public relations campaigns
• Strong media relations and networking skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities.
• Proficiency in using PR tools and monitoring software.
• An understanding of brand positioning and reputation management.
• The ability to work collaboratively within a marketing and agency environment.

Project Management for Supply Chain Professionals

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Project Management Training Courses

Course: Project Management for Supply Chain Professionals

Supply Management is the process of managing relationships, information, and materials flows across organisational boundaries to deliver enhanced customer service and economic value. Supply managers aim towards synchronizing and amalgamating these flows through the implementation of a specific ordering of work activities across time and place, with a beginning, an end, clearly identified inputs and outputs, as well as a structure for action.

Project Management is also a structured process of managing work flow in a specific order across time and place. The close similarities between these two processes provide a firm foundation to expand the supply manager’s world view to adopt project management principles and techniques. This course focuses on integrating project management principles into the supply management process. In this course, you will learn how project management concepts could be applied to enhance supply management. You will also gain an understanding of the tools and techniques used to initiate, execute, manage and control a project. Possible initiatives for the improvement of supply management through the application of project management concepts will be emphasised.

• Following completion of this course, delegates will learn how to:
  • Organize, plan, launch, track, and close a project
  • Create a clear project objective and work breakdown structure
  • Master project planning, execution and control skills
  • Identify the skills necessary to lead or serve on a project team
  • Utilize project management related techniques
  • Create an accurate project timeline
  • Incorporate uncertainties in project time and cost plans
  • Use various project scheduling techniques
  • Plan a project balancing the constraints of scope, time, cost and quality
  • Complete project cost estimation and financial evaluations
  • Build and maintain effective and efficient project procedures and processes
  • Identify improvement opportunities to better manage supply chains
  • Demonstrate proficiency in developing project plans and making sound decisions

This course is designed for professionals who are interested in supply management, including leaders, managers, supervisors, and persons responsible for evaluating and improving their company's supply management programs and activities. The course is also tailored for the needs of those seeking ways to improve, enhance and maximize the value they add to their organisations through better management of their supply systems.

The course is a mixture of speaker input, several mini-case studies and facilitated discussions. Participants will gain detailed knowledge of project management concepts and techniques by active participation in the group discussions.

• Delegates attending this course will gain:
  • An understanding of the striking similarities between supply management and project management; and learn new skills in order to apply project management principles as effective tools which if successfully implemented will enhance the delegate’s professional capacity to manage supply chains.
  • An improved personal knowledge of developing and managing project plans, and identifying, controlling and responding to project risks.
  • An enhanced personal decision making capability.

Individuals and organisations will be better educated in relation to perceiving and managing their supply systems as unique projects. Individuals will learn how to identify potential opportunities for supply chain improvements, and will have the ability to demonstrate clear, quantifiable short and long-term results thus ensuring better supply chain performance. Organisations, in turn, will have better control on their supply chains through the utilisation of project management best practices.

• Delegates attending this course will enhance their competencies in the following areas:
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning and Monitoring
  • Project Scheduling and Budgeting
  • Risk Management Planning
  • Team Building
  • Relationship Management
  • Principled Negotiations
  • Trend Analysis and Forecasting
  • Project Reporting

• Day One: Setting up the Scene
  • Project management terminology and life-cycle project phases
  • Overview of the Project Management Process
  • Key areas of Project Management Body of Knowledge
  • Supply management and project management: similarities and differences
  • Types of integration
  • Impact of early decisions on project success
  • Classical project phases
  • Project scope – parameters & constraints
  • The concept of Value-for-Money project delivery
  • The project supply chain

Day Two: The Project Environment – Objective Parameters

• Opportunities and Problems
• Identifying, analyzing and managing project stakeholders
• Beyond SMART Objectives
• Introduction to project planning
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Task characteristics and duration assessment
• Planning and scheduling methods, including critical path scheduling
• The importance of schedule updating
• Incorporating planning in planning and scheduling
• Principles of project estimating
• Implementing cost control
• Contingency and escalation

Day Three: The Project Environment – Subjective Parameters

• Project quality and reliability issues
• Project information management
• Project communication management
• Performance measures and indicators
• Project process maturity
• Root cause analysis

Day Four: Effective Project Relationships Management

• Building and sustaining professional relationships
• Trust and trust building
• Principled negotiations
• Dealing with professional disagreements

Day Five: Project Execution and Closure

• Change control processes
• Identifying measurements of project success
• Project monitoring
• Integrating project scope, time and cost
• Leading and lagging indicators
• Project reporting: to whom and to what level?

Corporate Trainer (Finance, Project Management, Sales & Marketing, & Other Disciplines)

“A mediocre trainer tells; a good trainer explains; a superior trainer demonstrates; a great trainer inspires!”

Top Quality Trainer Required

You must be a highly talented, training professional, with experience of delivering Sales & Marketing, Finance, and Project Management courses. If you are able to deliver additional courses in two, or more, of the following areas: Management & Leadership, HR Management & Training, Customer Service, Personal Development, Business Writing Skills, Microsoft Office, this would be an additional advantage

Please Note: Spearhead Training does not hire, or use, freelance Trainers.

Desired Skills & Experience

The key qualities we seek are: subject-matter expert, excellent research and technical skills, integrity, excellent communication skills, a totally ‘customer focused’ outlook, first-rate subject knowledge, excellent planning and organizing skills, and the aptitude to communicate in a dynamic and positive manner in the training room, maintains

Experience in delivering ‘Online Courses’ through Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Etc., is an advantage.

Minimum education level: Relevant Degree (Fully Attested)

You must be currently located in the UAE (Preferably Dubai), and hold a valid UAE driving licence, with your own car.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please note that applications must be submitted with:

• A professional covering letter, addressed to ‘Spearhead HR Department’ explaining clearly why you are the best candidate for the position
• The Spearhead Candidate Questionnaire (below), must also be fully completed

Applications submitted without a proper covering letter, or without answering all the questions on the Spearhead Candidate Questionnaire, will automatically be disregarded.

We trust you will understand, due to time constraints, only candidates who match certain criteria will be contacted.

If invited to an interview for a position requiring a Tertiary Qualification (Degree), you must bring a copy of the relevant Qualification fully attested by the appropriate authorities, to the interview.

Who are WebBeds

WebBeds is the fastest growing and most significant accommodation supplier to the travel industry. We are a global company offering ground services (hotels transfers tours activities) to travel professionals. Our products help our partners and customers to create amazing Travel experiences.

Our Products range from a Retail Online platform Integration Connectivity hub and distribution APIs to name but a few and our systems are 100 cloud hosted processing up to 5.0bn search requests daily. We deliver amazing outcomes using leading edge technology through innovative and creative thinking.

WebBeds is a subsidiary of Web Travel Group (ASX: WEB) an ASX 200 listed company operating a global digital travel business.

What makes us stand out

• We are a wholesale global travel organisation
• We have 1500 people speaking 50 languages in 120 cites across 50 countries
• We partner with over properties in more than 15000 destinations
• We work with more than 44000 travel companies in 139 source markets
• We have an amazing Technology team focused on delivering valuable outcomes using innovative tech and creative & lateral thinking

In this role you will:

As a Transformation Program Manager within the Business Transformation Office you will be instrumental in identifying and leading initiatives that drive revenue growth and margin improvement. Your role will involve partnering with key business functions to uncover opportunities develop innovative solutions and lead the successful of high-impact programs that align with the companys strategic objectives.

This role requires a forward-thinking mindset strong business acumen and the ability to build cross-functional partnerships to deliver measurable results.

Key elements to this role include but not limited to:

• Identify transformation opportunities across business functions to drive revenue and margin growth.
  
• Partner with functional leaders to define and prioritize initiatives aligned with strategic objectives.
• Develop business cases to support initiative prioritization & approval process.
• Lead workshops and working sessions to co-create solutions with stakeholders.
• Own the program planning and establish recurring checkpoints to track delivery progress and resolve dependencies.
• Proactively identify risks develop mitigation plans and collaborate with stakeholders to remove roadblocks and ensure successful delivery.
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and track metrics to ensure target achievement and impact realization.
• Conduct regular program status reviews with stakeholders to communicate progress highlight achievements and address delays or deviations.
• Shape & maintain a transformation roadmap that aligns with the broader company strategy.
• Drive integration of technology solutions to enhance and streamline business processes.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation across the organization.

The skills we would love to see in your suitcase!

• Demonstrated success in leading business transformation initiatives through technology-driven solutions guided by data-backed business cases and evolving market demands
• Skilled at navigating complex challenges and driving effective end-to-end solutions.
• Detail-oriented and results-driven with the ability to learn and iterate quickly.
• Effective stakeholder management and strategic partnership-building skills
• Possesses a data-driven mindset across the entire transformation journey—from initial analysis through to performance measurement.
• Thrives in fast-paced dynamic environments with shifting priorities.
• Effective at working cross-functionally and influencing without direct authority.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills paired with a charismatic and personable demeanor.
• Experience in the travel or B2B services industry is a plus.
• Solid technical background with experience in cloud architecture and emerging technologies.

Why choose us as your next destination

We are super proud of our dedicated team of friendly energetic & passionate professionals. Our people are key to the success of our business & everybody at WebBeds has their own unique role to play as we continue to drive the company forward.

Over 50 different languages are spoken by our workforce but whether working from offices in Dubai or London or out in the field in Johannesburg or Buenos Aires we all share the common goal to take pride in what we do & to deliver our partners with unbeatable service & support.

• International highly skilled group of experts from all around the globe
• Dynamic environment with the chance to grow influence & impact change
• Disruptive fast-growing market leader within travel & endless possibilities
• Culture built on collaboration empowerment and innovation

Find out more about the WebBeds business at - #LI-Hybrid

Job Purpose: ToManage Infrastructure & DC Transformation Projects

Qualification: BE/BTech/B.Sc./Diploma

Experience: 10 – 14 Years

Certification: MANDATORY (CAPM/ PMP/ PRINCE2); DESIRABLE (AGILE, SCRUM)

Mandatory Trainings Attended: RiskManagement, EVM, Project Planners

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrable experience and capability in the delivery of projects requiring the creation of large project teams with multiple elements on a cross discipline and/or multi supplier basis.
• Expert understanding of concepts, procedures and application of project management and an extensive knowledge in other subjects or disciplines, which are relevant to the content of the project.
• Brings this knowledge to bear to ensure reuse and best practice across projects.
• Plans, manages, and delivers the larger and more complex long-term projects that will significantly affect the client organization, and which will deliver strategic benefits to client and/or stakeholders.
• Evaluates situations using multiple sources of information. Solution will typically require some new planning and resource elements, potentially generating bespoke adaptations.
• Projects will typically involve a significant element of risk to the business and/or external clients and require the ability to use and adapt recognized project management methods and processes, depending on the elements of the risk profile and governance needs.
• Delivers projects to contracted service levels and within defined financial targets whilst maintaining and developing customer satisfaction.
• Is recognized as the key supplier in delivery of a client critical or internal medium/long term business benefit.
• Must have proven ability to apply relationship management skills in medium terms and to be able to build and own client and stakeholder relationships at executive levels during and beyond the project duration.
• Expected to coach / mentor and line manage Junior Project Managers
• Ability to channel resources effectively internally developing best delivery practice or ability to identify the change impact on the organization, identify stakeholders and manage relationships, risk and engagement to deliver the project’s outcomes successfully.
• Seeks innovative ways to expand the business scope of projects and to manage the cost base.

Mandatory:

Strong Knowledge on

• Project Control Tools
• Microsoft Project
• Schedule Management
• Visio
• Project Planning tools.
• Risk Management tools.
• Mindjet Manager or similar.

Industry Knowledge on

• Understanding of Data Center Infrastructure