Summary
Currie & Brown is seeking a Senior Project Manager with hospitality and mixed-use experience for its Abu Dhabi team. The role involves leading projects, managing stakeholders and teams, and overseeing delivery against budget, quality and schedule targets. Responsibilities include defining project plans, managing consultants or contractors, tracking budgets, addressing risks, and advising senior management and clients on progress. Applicants need a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, project management certification or accreditation, project leadership experience, and strong contract administration skills.
The posting
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About The Role
Currie & Brown is looking for a Senior Project Manager with hospitality and Mixed-use experience to join our team in Abu Dhabi. You will lead reasonably complex projects, manage project stakeholders and provide leadership to the project team.
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?
- 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
- Excellent contract administration experience
- Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
- Proven ability as a trusted advisor to the client
About Us
Why choose Currie & Brown?
Unlike some businesses, we 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. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with 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 everyday 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, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.
With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.
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