Director, Luxury Hospitality Project Delivery

Dubai Holding; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Dubai Holding Hospitality seeks a seasoned project leader to oversee complex luxury hotel refurbishments and new-builds. You will supervise consultants, coordinate with developers, and drive procurement strategies across live assets in multiple regions.

The role requires extensive client-side or consultancy project management experience in luxury hospitality, with strong cost control, risk management, and stakeholder engagement capabilities to align with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related discipline.
• 10–15+ years’ project management experience, ideally client side or consultancy.
• Experience delivering hospitality-led refurbishments or luxury hotel projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the supervision consultants are discharging their onsite duties in accordance with their contracted services.
• Manage and coordinate with all relevant stakeholders matters related to the project.
• Together with the development team, develop a procurement strategy for each project considering the project and constraints and opportunities.
• Manage the interface between all parties on the project, including between contractors, consultants and various authorities and agencies as necessary.
• Monitor the implementation of the security and quality assurance / control and environmental policies of the business are maintained.
• Together with the supervision consultants, review and comment on contractor programmes, logistics plans, method statements and ensure they are aligned with the business requirements.
• Through all construction stages, report regularly on the status of projects and advise on and obtain decisions and approvals as required.
• Attend scheduled and ad-hoc meetings and ensure the supervision consultant chairs the meetings and issues minutes of meetings in a timely manner.
• Follow up on open or unresolved items raised by the contractor (RFI’s) with the responsible party to ensure the project is not unnecessarily delayed.
• Monitor the project expenditure to ensure it is aligned with the agreed and approved project budget.
• Provide early warnings of possible variations / additional expenditure requirements.
• Suggest to management mitigation strategies for potential project programme delays or cost over-runs.
• Review interim payment applications and make recommendations for approval and / or deductions.
• Review the consultants and contractors’ quality procedures to ensure works are executed correctly, in accordance with good engineering practice and avoiding abortive works.
• Coordinate onsite witness testing and inspections as required.
• Prepare and coordinate preliminary hand-over inspections and witness testing.
• Coordinate final hand-over inspections.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

On-site supervision

HSE compliance

Cost control

Quality assurance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related discipline

Job description

Dubai Holding Hospitality seeks a seasoned project leader to oversee complex luxury hotel refurbishments and new-builds. You will supervise consultants, coordinate with developers, and drive procurement strategies across live assets in multiple regions.

The role requires extensive client-side or consultancy project management experience in luxury hospitality, with strong cost control, risk management, and stakeholder engagement capabilities to align with business objectives.