Project Manager, Moves & Changes (MAC)

Overview

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Role Purpose

Moves & Churn Delivery

• Manage the full MAC lifecycle across the MENA portfolio: demand intake, scoping, migration planning, stakeholder sign-off, move execution and post-move review.
• Coordinate business unit relocations, desk and team moves, and restack/churn activity, minimising disruption to live banking operations (including out-of-hours and weekend execution where required).
• Interface with the client's corporate real estate function, business stakeholders, FM, IT, and Security to sequence dependencies (data/voice, access control, asset moves, BAU continuity).

Small Works / Minor Projects

• Deliver small works and minor fit-out projects end-to-end: scope definition, cost estimates, procurement coordination, contractor management, snagging and handover.
• Prepare project documentation to account standards — scope documents, programmes, trackers, risk logs, change control and close-out reports.

Commercial & Vendor Management

• Obtain and evaluate quotations; raise and track POs; validate invoices; manage variations and cost control against approved budgets.
• Manage move contractors, furniture vendors, MEP and fit-out subcontractors in line with the client's procurement processes and panel arrangements.
• Maintain confirmed-vs-indicative discipline on all cost reporting.

Governance & Reporting

• Maintain a single source of truth for MAC and small works pipeline — consolidated trackers, status reporting and KPI inputs to the cluster lead.
• Apply account document control standards: version discipline, document control tables, audit-ready records.
• Ensure full compliance with the client's site access protocols, H&S requirements, and bank-environment constraints; escalate risks proactively and upstream of issues.

Regional Support

• Support the MENA Cluster Lead with regional reporting, capacity cover across markets during peaks or transitions, and continuous improvement of the MAC delivery process.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 5–8 years' project management experience in corporate real estate, corporate interiors or workplace delivery, with demonstrable hands-on MAC/churn delivery.
• Experience delivering small works / minor capex projects (fit-out, refurbishment, workplace reconfiguration).
• Experience in banking, financial services or similarly regulated corporate environments strongly preferred.
• MENA market experience and familiarity with regional contractor/vendor ecosystems.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; able to operate with senior client stakeholders and business units. Fluent English required; Arabic an advantage.
• Proficient in MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint; CAFM/space management tools an advantage.
• Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related field. PMP / PRINCE2 an advantage.
• Willingness to travel across MENA markets.

Key Competencies

• Delivery discipline and ownership — sees issues, owns them, solves them.
• Structured planner under pressure; comfortable running multiple concurrent moves/projects.
• Commercially aware — cost control, vendor negotiation, change management.
• Precise, audit-ready documentation habits.
• Client-facing professionalism in a premium banking environment.