Summary
AD Ports Group is seeking an Integration Manager to coordinate priorities, initiatives and deliverables across business units. The role tracks progress, risks, dependencies and actions, facilitates cross-functional meetings, and prepares updates and reports for senior leadership. Candidates should have a relevant bachelor's degree, 8–10 years of related experience, and excellent English and Arabic. Previous people-management or team-leadership experience is preferred.
The posting
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The Manager – Integration is responsible for strengthening alignment and coordination across business units and functions to support the effective delivery of organizational priorities. The role facilitates cross-functional collaboration, monitors critical strategic initiatives, identifies dependencies and implementation risks, and ensures timely follow-up and escalation to maintain progress and achieve intended outcomes.
Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities:
Coordinate across business units and functions to ensure alignment on shared priorities, deliverables, timelines and dependencies.
Support the planning and execution of key cross-functional projects and organizational initiatives.
Establish and maintain consolidated trackers, action logs, implementation plans and status reports for assigned initiatives.
Monitor project progress, milestones, risks, issues and outstanding actions, ensuring timely follow-up with responsible stakeholders.
Facilitate cross-functional meetings, workshops and working groups, including the preparation of agendas, materials, minutes and action points.
Clarify roles, responsibilities and ownership across participating business units to support effective execution.
Identify coordination gaps, conflicting priorities and operational dependencies that may affect delivery.
Work with relevant stakeholders to develop practical solutions and corrective actions to address implementation challenges.
Ensure key decisions, agreed actions and changes in scope are properly documented and communicated.
Prepare regular progress updates and management reports for senior leadership.
Maintain accurate records and supporting documentation relating to strategic initiatives and cross-functional projects.
Promote effective information-sharing and collaboration across business units.
People Management Responsibilities:
Lead, guide and develop team members, ensuring clear accountability for assigned priorities and deliverables.
Set performance expectations, provide regular feedback and support capability development.
Promote a collaborative, accountable and results-focused working environment.
Strategic Responsibilities:
Translate organizational priorities into coordinated implementation plans across business units.
Monitor critical strategic initiatives, identify risks and dependencies, and escalate significant issues to senior management.
- Recommend improvements to cross-functional governance, alignment and execution effectiveness.
Qualifications
Educational and Technical Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Strategic Management, Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics or a related field. Master's degree is a plus
Language Skills:
Excellent English & Arabic.
Years of Experience:
A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in a similar role
Nature of Experience:
Relevant experience in strategic initiative management, business integration, project or program management, strategy execution, transformation, PMO, business planning or a related field.
Demonstrated experience coordinating complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple business units and senior stakeholders.
Experience monitoring strategic initiatives, milestones, risks, dependencies and implementation progress.
Proven ability to follow up with stakeholders, resolve coordination issues and maintain accountability for agreed actions.
Experience preparing executive-level reports, dashboards, presentations and management updates.
Strong exposure to stakeholder management, meeting facilitation and cross-functional collaboration.
Experience working in a complex organization with multiple functions, competing priorities and interdependent deliverables.
Previous people-management or team-leadership experience is preferred.
Experience within a government-related, large corporate, infrastructure, economic development or diversified business environment would be advantageous.