Digital Practice Director - PMCM

KEO International Consultants; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Individual athletic sponsorship

Study assistance sponsorship

Employee referral rewards

Job summary

KEO International Consultants in the UAE seeks a Digital Practice Director to join the PM/CM Division in Dubai or Abu Dhabi. You will lead the adoption and implementation of digital solutions to address PM/CM needs and challenges.

The successful candidate will bring a minimum of 15 years delivering BIM-enabled projects, a Bachelor’s degree in IT or engineering, and a proven ability to drive digital strategy, technology adoption, and cross‑functional leadership across a major firm.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years delivering BIM-enabled projects.
• Bachelor's degree in IT or engineering or related discipline.
• Experience leading digital PM/CM strategies and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead adoption and implementation of digital solutions for the PM/CM division.
• Develop and lead a strategy to promote excellence through digital initiatives.
• Drive new technologies implementation within the PM/CM division.
• Collaborate with PM/CM Leaders to deliver a digital excellence program.
• Create and maintain knowledge databases and training for digital practices.

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or engineering

Tools

BIM tools

Job description

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2023 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Digital Practice Director to join our award winning PM/CM Division based in Dubai OR Abu Dhabi, UAE. This position is responsible for leading the adoption and implementation of digital solutions to address PM/CM division needs and challenges.

We envisage success in this role to include;

• Develop and lead a strategy to promote and foster a culture of excellence through improving our professional and technical excellence in line with the PM/CM business practice.
• Develop software for specific tasks such as simplification of analytics.
• Driving new technologies implementation in PM/CM division.
• Work with PM/CM Leaders to deliver the professional and technical excellence strategy in a focused and effective manner that is linked to our client needs.
• Create a digital network and strategy to support company networking; promote the use of systems and technologies; and continually review and develop team capabilities in line with technological advancements.
• Working closely with Digital Advisory Services to ensure PM/CM division alignment with company-wide digital vision.
• Recommend and drive improvements to existing processes.
• Create and maintain knowledge database including guidelines, video tutorials and training sessions.
• Foster innovation for projects.
• Support Project Leaders in communicating our service offering to clients and co-create opportunities with our key clients.
• Provide input to proposals/take part in bid reviews for projects and work-winning opportunities such as client presentations.
• Undertake or support project reviews to ensure technical compliance and good practice are being followed.
• Conducts digital onboarding introduction to team members.
• Champions team reviews to lead an inspiring performance culture through sharing knowledge with others and /or leading a team.
• Overview and support multiple projects.
• Ensures that Health, Safety, Sustainability and Continual Improvement is embedded into all work practices.
• Piloting Artificial Intelligence application to support business operations

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include minimum 15 years work experience in delivering projects using BIM processes/technologies preferably during construction stage partnered with a Bachelor's Degree in IT or a relevant Engineering discipline.

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.