
DP World
Group Director â Project Management & Innovation
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
- Urgent
Job overview
Date posted
09/10/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 60,000 - 100,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Director
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
23/11/2025
Job description
The role manages digital solutions across DP World with a focus on Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Applications, in-house products, safety technology, AI implementation projects, PowerBI dashboards, and global reporting, bridging back-end engineering with user experience (UX) and user interface (UI). The Group HSE Applications product is an in-house digital platform used for tracking and reporting safety incidents, tracking sites under operational control, collecting environmental data, conducting risk baseline assessments, executing due diligence audits, and delivering other core HSE functions; the position guides a team of software engineers and business analysts to develop effective dashboards and reporting with clarity and purpose, while engaging stakeholders from senior head office decision makers to local teams. The scope includes collaborating across functions to enhance operational safety, decarbonization, environmental impact, learning, training, and best-practice sharing, and liaising with the training, learning & development team to roll out HSE-related courses on the OneLearn platform. The role requires strong understanding of back-end and front-end programming languages, the ability to develop data pipelines to track, analyze, and improve data in in-house digital solutions, and excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills to interpret large data sets within the context of ports & terminals, marine services, logistics, and technology operations.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Support product management, digital implementation, and software development across in-house solutions, including maintenance of licenses (e.g., IMO database), learning, training, best-practice sharing, and interfaces with other systems and reporting mechanisms
- Continuously improve UX and UI for in-house solutions by developing effective dashboards and reporting with clarity and purpose
- Oversee requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development, and user acceptance testing, partnering with cross-functional teams to align on feature development and prioritization
- Engage multiple stakeholders, including senior management, head office departments (Operations and Engineering, Sustainability, Finance), regional and local teams, and Group Technology to ensure alignment and adoption
- Conduct user research and usability studies in collaboration with designers, developers, practitioners, and research teams to inform design decisions
- Explore Artificial Intelligence applications across in-house HSE digital solutions to enhance safety and environmental outcomes
- Monitor and evaluate product performance, iterating based on findings, and benchmark in-house capabilities against internal stakeholder requirements, external reporting or compliance needs, and international best practice in HSE standards and digital technology
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the high-performing team, including direct reports and shared services IT resources, to deliver agreed outcomes
- Manage the product roadmap and backlog to sequence initiatives and features that deliver measurable value
Experience & skills
- Possess 10â15 yearsâ experience in project management of digital solutions
- Hold a Bachelorâs or Masterâs degree in project management, software engineering, information systems, or a related digital technology field
- Demonstrate experience in UX, UI development, usability, and user-focused design
- Show strong understanding of back-end and front-end programming languages with the ability to develop data pipelines
- Exhibit excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills suited to interpreting large data sets
- Demonstrate understanding and interest in supply chain, logistics, ports & terminals, and maritime services
- Display passion for building great products that solve business problems