Media Projects Lead - End-to-End & Multi-Partner Delivery

Confidential Careers; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers is seeking a Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of media projects across branding, PR, social, events, and communications. You will own the master deliverable plan, coordinate multiple external partners and vendors, and act as the primary client contact through approval workflows and structured reporting.

The role requires at least 5 years in project management, experience with government or large institutional projects, and prior UAE experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in project/programme management in marketing, communications, digital, technology, or consulting.
• Delivery of complex, multi-partner media projects from brief to completion.
• Mandatory: experience managing government or large institutional projects.
• Mandatory: prior work experience in the UAE.

Responsibilities

• Translate client requirements into briefs for creative, PR, social, production, and external teams.
• Maintain the master project plan: timelines, milestones, dependencies, and gates.
• Own multi-partner delivery with PR agencies, social creators, media vendors, and production suppliers.
• Review deliverables for gaps and alignment before client submission.
• Manage day-to-day client communications, status reporting, approvals, and change management.
• Identify and mitigate risks across all workstreams and escalate issues when needed.
• Navigate government protocols and senior stakeholder presentations.
• Maintain RAID logs, scopes of work, cost trackers, and post-project reviews.
• Chair kick-offs, weekly standups, and formal review sessions with clients and teams.
• Track scope, budgets, POs, costs, invoicing milestones, and dependencies.
• Identify out-of-scope requests and assess commercial implications.

Skills

Project management

Client-facing delivery

Stakeholder management

Tools

MS Office

PM tools

Job description

Confidential Careers is seeking a Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of media projects across branding, PR, social, events, and communications. You will own the master deliverable plan, coordinate multiple external partners and vendors, and act as the primary client contact through approval workflows and structured reporting.

The role requires at least 5 years in project management, experience with government or large institutional projects, and prior UAE experience.