Senior Specialist - Corporate Excellence Inception

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Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Abu Dhabi
Contract type: Full time
Overview

Job Description

As the Senior Specialist you will drive strategic and operational excellence initiatives to enhance organizational performance, process efficiency, and culture of continuous improvement across the company. Responsible for leading cross-functional projects from concept to implementation, ensuring delivery of measurable business impact.

The opportunity

This is a rare opportunity to build and scale the full-spectrum corporate excellence function within a cutting-edge AI company. As Inception leads the UAE’s national AI R&D mission, your work will shape its public narrative, amplify its global impact, and ensure alignment between brand identity and commercial strategy. You will drive awareness, trust, and engagement across target markets—government, enterprise, academia, and the broader public.

Inception is the UAE’s national-scale enabler in AI Research and Development. Partnering Microsofts AI SaaS, we offer domain-specific Agentic AI Orchestrator platform utilizing reasoning agents for precise and cost-effective services. Our focus includes AI incubation, IP creation, applied AI R&D, and AI investment products. By creating models tailored to specific domains and languages, we ensure superior accuracy and efficiency. Collaborating with top universities and industry giants to drive significant advancements in AI technology within the region.

Responsibilities

Strategic & Improvement Planning

  • Align projects with the corporate excellence roadmap and strategic objectives. Identify improvement opportunities through data analysis and stakeholder engagement.
  • Develop business cases, project charters, and improvement plans.

Project & Program Management

  • Plan, execute, and monitor excellence initiatives using PMI / Agile best practices. Manage project scope, timelines, resources, budgets, risks, and deliverables.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure effective implementation.

Process Excellence & Analytics

  • Lead process mapping, gap analysis, root-cause analysis (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma tools). Design and implement optimized processes, KPIs, SOPs, and controls.
  • Track project performance and savings; prepare dashboards and management reports.

Change & Stakeholder Management

  • Drive change adoption and culture of excellence across the organization. Act as liaison between executive management and operational teams.
  • Facilitate workshops, trainings, and communication initiatives.

Governance, Compliance & Sustainability

  • Ensure alignment with corporate policies, ISO standards, and audit requirements. Maintain excellence documentation, knowledge management, and best practices.
  • Conduct post-implementation reviews to sustain project outcomes.

Capability Building

  • Build internal capability by rolling out excellence frameworks and training.
  • Promote innovation and ownership mindsets across the workforce.

Qualifications

To qualify for the role, you must have

  • Bachelor’s degree in technical field Business, or related field
  • 5–8 years of experience in Project Management / Operational Excellence / Transformation.
  • Certifications preferred: PMP, Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt), Agile, etc.
  • Strong project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Excellent stakeholder management and communication capabilities.
  • Strong knowledge of process improvement tools and change management practices.
  • Results-driven, collaborative, and ability to influence without authority.

What we look for

If you are a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer-centric solutions. Bias for action and a passion to conquer new frontiers in the AI space is at the heart of the Inception community.

What working at Inception offers

Culture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground-breaking, industry-first innovations.

Career: Outstanding learning, development & growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative, high-tech projects.

Work-Life: A hybrid work policy to strike the perfect balance between office and home.

Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Job Details

Role Level: Mid-Level Work Type: Full-Time Country: United Arab Emirates City: Abu Dhabi Company Website: https://inceptionai.ai/ Job Function: Information Technology (IT) Company Industry/

Sector: Technology Information and Internet

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