Project And Campaign Specialist

This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

About the Company


This company engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It operates through the following segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Corporate. The Upstream segment includes crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids exploration, field development, and production. The Downstream segment focuses on refining, logistics, power generation, and the marketing of crude oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, and related services to international and domestic customers. The Corporate segment offers supporting services including human resources, finance, and information technology. The company was founded on May 29, 1933 and is headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Project and Campaign Specialist to join the Content Planning & Scheduling Unit in the Corporate Communication Department. The Content Planning & Scheduling Unit is responsible for managing and coordinating communications projects. This includes large integrated campaigns that require multiple internal and external resources and smaller ad-hoc projects that may be only channel specific. As a Project and Campaign Specialist, you will oversee the end-to-end delivery of strategic projects, managing all aspects of the project timeline, reporting, and delivery. This will entail developing detailed and robust project plans as well as ensuring that all milestones, dependencies, and project critical paths are communicated proactively and in a timely manner.

Responsibilities:

• Define project timelines and schedule project milestones meetings
• Develop key internal relationships that ensure smooth project operations and transparency of project goals and outputs
• Manage project budgets and ensure delivery is within given budget thresholds; support the business case for additional funds if required
• Use defined project documentation, responsible for drafting project goals, scopes, deliverables, and dependencies
• Set the procedure and effective methodology to manage projects
• Set up and manage project documentation into project resource folders and maintain appropriate project management tools
• Lead resource planning and allocation
• Carry out risk assessments and document identified mitigations
• Utilize project management related platform such as MS Projects or other equivalent software
• Coordinate project staff (both internal This Company teams and agency partners)
• Post project evaluations and recommendations for future ways of working.
• Set up, track, and report against project performance metrics
• Manage project administration including all related project documentation
• Provide quality assurance of both project documentation and end product (delivery against brief)
• Lead the planning and management of multiple concurrent projects
• Prepare regular status reports to be shared with management

Requirements:

As a successful candidate, you will hold a bachelor's degree in Project Management, Operations Management, Business Administration, or Communications from a recognized and approved program. A minimum of five years' experience in a similar role is required, ideally within a production agency or an organization with in-house production capability. As Project and Campaign Specialist, you must be an efficient and effective project manager, who consistently demonstrates proactive and reactive project management abilities. You should be highly organized, dependable, and able to build relationships and collaborate internally and externally with agencies and affiliates for content creation.

• Possess excellent communications skills, including presentation skills (in English).
• Have a proven ability to complete major and complex projects on budget and on time
• Possess excellent business and financial acumen
• Demonstrate comprehensive skills in developing and managing detailed scopes of work, resource planning, and milestone planning
• Have the ability to build strong internal relationships; possess the soft skills to interact and collaborate with a wide range of colleagues
• Be highly collaborative
• Willing to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
• Have experience in building and mobilizing an integrated team towards for action and results