Position: Head of Program Manager Unit, Advisor to CDO
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 7


If successful delivery of your projects requires effective communication and timely conflict management with stakeholders, clients and partners, you are looking at the right profile.

Experienced Head of Program Management Unit and Advisor to CDO (Chief Digital & Data Officer) within the leading Telco company with 7 years Project Management experience across various industries - Oil & Gas, Banking, Retail, E-commerce, Telco. Currently, managing a team of 20 people (program managers, project managers, project coordinators, technical PM’s) under 10m$ Data Platform & Infrastructure Transformation; have a proven track record of delivering outstanding results on the projects on time and within the initially set budget. 

Advisor to CDO (Chief Digital & Data Officer) on overall digital strategy & main programs to be developed within the bigger strategic vision of internal & external digitalization

Result-oriented Crisis Solver

Strong leader with excellent communication, negotiation and teamwork skills, able to build and motivate high-performing project teams. 

What I will deliver:
- Formation & coaching of the project management team if required
- Identification of weak points of business processes and timely adjustments
- Risk identification and agile mitigation
- Establishing SOP’s and processes in general
- Building product strategies and roadmaps
- Management of software & operations teams in Product & Service Companies
- Process management, improvement and streamlining
- Project planning, reporting, budgeting & cost control
- Effective stakeholder management & negotiation

Proficient in project management tools: Jira, MS Office, incl. Project, Teams & Outlook, Monday, Asana, Trello, ClickUp, PowerBI (basic), HubSpot, Miro and methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, SDLC

Language skills:
Russian (Native)
English (Super Fluent)
Azerbaijani (Native)
Turkish (Limited proficiency)

Vast experience in Marketing:
- 4 years experience on various e-commerce platforms
- 3 years high value social media lead generation experience
- 1 year full-scale Social Media Agency Manager experience (own business), including photo and video shooting, designs, paid and organic traffic
- 1 year of Media and Content Production; Podcasting experience
- 3 years SME brand, marketing and business consulting experience
Focus on main KPI's for business development and overal growth

Education:
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
2012-2016