Pharma Warehouse Project Lead | Delivery & Readiness

Forsyth Barnes; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead warehouse development initiatives in Dubai. You will define delivery plans, align stakeholders, manage scope, and ensure safe, compliant, and ready-for-operations outcomes.

You will balance regulatory expectations with budget constraints, coordinate design, construction, validation, and commissioning, and report progress with clarity to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing warehouse, logistics, facilities, industrial, construction, or operational development projects.
• Background in pharmaceutical manufacturing, life sciences, regulated production, or another environment with demanding quality and compliance controls.
• Strong command of project planning, cost control, risk management, change control, procurement coordination, and stakeholder governance.
• Ability to lead projects involving multiple disciplines, vendors, contractors, and competing operational priorities.
• Practical understanding of warehouse layouts, storage solutions, material flows, facility services, or related infrastructure would be valuable.
• Experience supporting commissioning, validation, qualification, handover, or operational readiness is advantageous.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and drive timely decisions.
• Strong analytical judgement, organisation, accountability, and problem-solving capability.

Responsibilities

• Shape project scopes, objectives, delivery strategies, schedules, budgets, and governance arrangements for warehouse development programmes.
• Lead multidisciplinary activities covering design, construction, fit-out, systems integration, validation support, commissioning, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate internal functions, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and site stakeholders to maintain alignment throughout delivery.
• Translate storage, material-flow, production-support, and compliance requirements into defined project deliverables.
• Maintain integrated project plans and monitor milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, expenditure, risks, issues, and change requests.
• Provide concise progress reporting and escalated decisions that may affect safety, quality, schedule, cost, or operational continuity.
• Ensure project documentation, approvals, handover records, and closeout activities are complete and controlled.
• Support commissioning, qualification, training, and readiness activities so warehouse areas can transition effectively into use.

Skills

Project planning

Cost control

Risk management

Change control

Procurement coordination

Stakeholder governance

Communication

Analytical judgement

Organization

Problem solving

Job description

Forsyth Barnes is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead warehouse development initiatives in Dubai. You will define delivery plans, align stakeholders, manage scope, and ensure safe, compliant, and ready-for-operations outcomes.

You will balance regulatory expectations with budget constraints, coordinate design, construction, validation, and commissioning, and report progress with clarity to senior leadership.