Summary
Currie & Brown is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join its Project Management team in Dubai, with experience in high-end hospitality new-build projects. The role leads the project team and manages project definition, delivery plans, schedules, budgets, risks and stakeholder relationships. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, project management certification or accreditation, experience across pre-contract and post-contract phases, and strong contract administration skills. The position also requires team leadership, commercial acumen and the ability to advise clients and senior management.
The posting
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About The Role
Currie & Brown is looking for a Senior Project Manager with high-end hospitality new build project experience to join our Project Management team working in Dubai.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be managing project stakeholders and provide leadership to the project team.
What will you be doing?
- 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
- 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
- Proven team leader capabilities, behaviours and values
- Experience during both pre-contract and post-contract phases
- 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
Our corporate values
At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from. That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business. Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is. Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.
Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments. We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people. Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve. That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.
With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company. Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.
This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.
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. 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.