Projects Delivery Director

Role purpose

Strategy, delivery and project controls

• Lead project management and delivery across company projects to achieve timely completion within budget and milestone programmes.
• Ensure compliant project processes, quality standards, regulatory compliance, statutory requirements, and engineering standards.
• Act as the main escalation point for resource and project-delivery challenges.
• Develop communication strategies and resolve execution-phase issues promptly.
• Oversee budget preparation, cost control, cost reports, project information, and performance reporting.
• Own development programmes, baselines, milestones, critical paths, progress measurement, and recovery planning; serve as the business line’s source of programme truth.
• Direct Planning and Project Controls and issue approved programmes for Development, Sales, Marketing, and Finance.
• Approve programme changes within delegated authority and escalate changes affecting committed delivery dates.

Contractors, procurement and contracts

• Chair project and contractor progress meetings and represent the Employer; escalate programme, cost, quality, and safety matters.
• Review contractor mitigation plans, execution strategies, procurement, acceleration programmes, and resource allocation.
• Facilitate change requests and communicate schedule and budget impacts while aligning delivery schedules with business objectives.
• Lead contractor prequalification, tendering, and award recommendations under the approved delegation of authority.
• Administer construction contracts, including variations, extensions of time, claims, delay damages, and value engineering; recommend settlement positions.
• Approve or recommend payment certificates and manage performance bonds, advance payment guarantees, and retention releases within delegated authority.
• Prepare and recommend final account statements for approval.

Risk, quality and handover

• Assess anticipated and unforeseen risks and value propositions in collaboration with other sectors.
• Oversee site health, safety, and environmental performance and contractor compliance with statutory and company requirements.
• Establish and enforce site QA/QC standards and track non-conformance reports through closure.
• Ensure delivered products meet approved specifications, design intent, and purchaser commitments.
• Manage mock-up delivery, taking-over certification, project handover, snagging, defects liability, and final certification.
• Coordinate handover readiness with Sales, Customer Service, and Compliance to support collections, mortgage conversion, and unit registration.

Functional leadership

• Lead Planning and Project Controls, Commercial and Quantity Surveying, Technical, MEP, Fit-Out, and Project Management functions of the business line.
• The Planning and Project Controls Senior Manager reports directly to this role.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, or equivalent is required.
• Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, or equivalent is preferred.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant real estate development experience.
• At least 10 years in positions of progressively increasing managerial responsibility.
• Fluent written and spoken English is essential; Arabic is preferred.