Senior Director

THA by ARMONIA

Dubai

Hybrid

AED 900,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Flight and accommodation provided
Possible remote work

Job summary

THA by ARMONIA in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, seeks a Senior Director to lead end-to-end site masterplanning for large-scale multi-venue meg events. You will personally develop masterplans, zoning, layouts and visitor journeys, while coordinating a multidisciplinary team to keep delivery on track.

The role requires senior-level client engagement and integrates marketing, sponsorship, talent, media and operations into a single coherent site plan.

Qualifications

  • Senior Director grade with minimum 12 years relevant experience.
  • At least two complete delivery cycles of mega events (mega-event, multi-venue, mega sporting event).

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end site masterplanning for large-scale, multi-venue mega events.
  • Head a large multidisciplinary planning team, allocating design, drafting and F&B planning work.
  • Hands-on role developing masterplans, zoning, dimensioned layouts and visitor journeys.
  • Run needs assessments, feasibility studies and benchmarks against global events.
  • Advise senior client leadership by integrating marketing, sponsorship, talent, media and operations into one site plan.

Job description

Job Description


  • Leads end-to-end site masterplanning for large-scale, multi-venue mega events. You’ll turn the client’s high-level vision into a full implementation plan for each event cycle, covering venue footprint, infrastructure, resources and timelines.

  • Heads a large multidisciplinary planning team: allocating design, drafting and F&B planning work, keeping delivery on track, and acting as the client’s single point of accountability for performance and output.

  • This is a hands‑on producing role. You’ll personally develop masterplans, zoning, dimensioned layouts and end-to-end visitor journeys, not just oversee them.

  • Runs needs assessments, feasibility and validation studies, and benchmarks against comparable global events to shape the best solution for each site.

  • Works as a trusted advisor to senior client leadership, integrating requirements from marketing, sponsorship, talent, media and operations into one coherent site plan.




  • Senior Director grade, with a minimum of 12 years relevant experience

  • At least two complete delivery cycles of events of comparable scale (mega-event, multi-venue, Mega sporting event )

  • Venue master planning, zoning, dimensioned layouts and end-to-end visitor journeys produced personally

  • Stakeholder integration across marketing, sponsorships, influencers and players




  • Long term contract 14 - 17 months

  • Flight and accommodation provided

  • Could be possibility of working remote

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