Senior Planning Manager

Overview

🔹 Senior Planning Manager

• If you have the relevant experience and are looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
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Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated master schedules across multiple projects using Primavera P6 and
• equivalent planning tools.
• Prepare baseline programmes, detailed schedules, look-ahead programmes, recovery plans, and
• milestone tracking systems.
• Monitor project progress, critical paths, float consumption, and schedule deviations across all
• projects.
• Identify delays, risks, bottlenecks, and coordination issues proactively while proposing corrective
• actions and recovery strategies.
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Design Managers, consultants, contractors, and procurement
• teams to maintain programme alignment.
• Develop progress measurement systems, KPI dashboards, executive reports, and portfolio-level
• reporting tools.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, presentations, and management summaries for
• senior stakeholders and Board reporting.
• Support cashflow forecasting, manpower planning, resource loading, and project performance
• analysis.
• Conduct schedule risk assessments, delay analysis, Time Impact Analysis (TIA), and support
• Extension of Time (EOT) evaluations where required.
• Review contractor schedules, planning submissions, and recovery programmes for compliance and
• logic integrity.
• Support governance procedures, reporting standards, baseline controls, and change management
• processes across all projects.
• Coordinate planning activities between design, procurement, construction, authority approvals, and
• handover phases.
• Support project close-out activities including completion tracking, handover milestones, and final
• reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related field.
• Approximately 10–18 years of experience in project planning, project controls, or programme
• management roles.
• Proven experience managing planning activities for hospitality, mixed-use, commercial,
• infrastructure, or high-end construction projects.
• Strong expertise in Primavera P6, project controls, critical path analysis, and integrated scheduling.
• Experience in progress measurement, EVM reporting, dashboards, KPI reporting, and executive
• presentations.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, procurement coordination, fit-out delivery, and
• multidisciplinary project execution.
• Experience in delay analysis, recovery planning, TIA, EOT, and schedule risk management.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects within PMC, client-side, or portfolio management
• environments.
• GCC experience is preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and reporting tools.

Preferred Profile

• Planning professional with strong project controls and programme management mindset.
• Capable of translating complex project data into clear executive-level reporting and actionable
• insights.
• Strong coordination and analytical capabilities in fast-track project environments.
• Detail-oriented with strong follow-up and governance discipline.
• Comfortable operating between management, consultants, contractors, and project delivery teams.