Senior Project Manager

Currie & Brown Group Limited; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits packages

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

A leading construction consultancy is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Dubai. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience and will oversee medium-scale projects, ensuring they meet budget and compliance standards. The role requires strong leadership skills and experience in both pre- and post-contract phases. Comprehensive benefits and career progression opportunities are available.

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience in construction project management.
• Project management professional certification is preferred.
• Proven team leader capabilities and experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead small to medium-scale projects to meet budget and quality standards.
• Develop project delivery plans and control mechanisms.
• Manage stakeholder communication and project risks.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Commercial acumen

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Project management software

Job description

Currie & Brown is looking for a Senior Project Manager with significant experience in Construction to join our team in Dubai.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead reasonably complex projects, manage project stakeholders, and provide leadership to the project team. Senior project managers are responsible for delivering their scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory, and planning controls, and require deep technical knowledge and broad business experience.

What will you be doing?

• Accountable for delivery of a number of small projects or a medium-scale project with reasonable complexity to budget, quality, and time metrics.
• Responsible for project definition and delivery.
• Responsible for establishing project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure effective delivery of the project.
• Responsible for leading the project team and performance management of the Currie & Brown team.
• Oversee and manage an agreed scope of work of a consultant team and/or contractors.
• Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets.
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and manage project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations that support senior management to improve processes and systems.
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure projects can be delivered to meet customer expectations.
• Advise senior management on progress and issues relating to own project, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies.
• Present any business project risks or issues to senior managers (with proposed mitigation) to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards.
• Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations.
• Deliver aspects of Currie & Brown’s vision to their respected project(s).

What do you need?

• 12+ years’ experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Project management professional certification or accreditation.
• Previous experience leading projects.
• Proven team leader capabilities, behaviours, and values.
• Experience during both pre-contract and post-contract phases.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Knowledge of industry best practice.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders.
• Proven ability as a trusted advisor to the client.

About Us

Currie & Brown prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures.

We don’t offer just a job; we offer a career with a clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity, and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds, and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas; they are essential to our success, which is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions, which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.

Currie & Brown is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.