Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Reliable, dynamic and results-oriented Transformation Practitioner with proven track record leading multiple donor-funded projects, shaping strategies & performance processes, heading project portfolio executions and managing cross-functional teams. Throughout my career, I have been working in roles that required a high intercultural competence, empathy, strong stakeholder management and knowledge of dependencies of politics, society, and economy. By possessing such a varied ‘mixture’ of previous experiences, I developed a tolerance of change and uncertainty, the ability to apply critical & logical thinking to solve raising problems and strong leadership skills, having managed multiple cross-functional and multinational teams. My leadership style can be described as motivating and mentoring, supervising and inspiring. I like to bring out the best in people, allowing us to achieve the best possible results in our daily tasks. My wealth of experience combines various responsibilities of project, program & portfolio management, and strategy execution with in-depth focus on Government and public sector entities with cross-organizational collaborations in the MENA region. My areas of expertise in a nutshell: - Overseeing large scale projects - Experience in transformation programs - Managing high performing distributed cross-functional teams - Designing operating models by developing policies, processes, guidelines, and tools - Developing detailed and actionable program implementation roadmaps - Strong stakeholder management across various levels - Defining corporate balanced scorecards - Shaping performance management processes and tools - Analyzing and defining as well as reviewing KPIs & strategic initiatives - Heading Quality assurance in projects ensuring a successful delivery - Managed multiple donor-funded projects with a portfolio size of more than 20 million USD - Developed an organizational capacity assessment tool for implementation partners (NGOs)