Senior Project Manager

Role overview

Project delivery and controls

• Leads project planning, coordination, execution, and handover across all phases.
• Manages project budgets, cost control, procurement strategies, and resource allocation to achieve financial targets.
• Oversees engineering, design management, construction activities, quality assurance, health and safety, and risk management.
• Develops project schedules and monitors progress against key milestones.
• Ensures compliance with contractual obligations, project specifications, company standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Drives value engineering and cost optimization without compromising quality.
• Establishes project controls, reporting systems, and performance monitoring processes.
• Uses ERP systems, preferably SAP, for project management, cost tracking, forecasting, and performance reporting.

Teams, resources, and quality

• Manages multidisciplinary teams, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and client stakeholders.
• Establishes and maintains site logistics, resource planning, and plant and equipment management strategies.
• Provides leadership, mentorship, and performance management to project teams.
• Ensures robust QA/QC and HSE systems across project activities.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• PMP certification preferred.
• At least 15 years of construction project management experience, including significant leadership of large-scale projects.
• Proven record delivering hotel, hospitality, luxury hospitality, mixed-use, and large-scale building projects.
• Experience managing projects valued at SAR 2 billion or more, or equivalent multi-billion-dollar developments, is highly preferred.

Technical and project background

• Strong expertise in project planning, construction management, budgeting, cost control, contract administration, procurement, and risk management.
• Demonstrated experience managing consultants, contractors, multidisciplinary project teams, and client stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of construction methodologies, engineering coordination, design management, and project delivery processes.
• Experience with ERP platforms; SAP is a strong advantage.
• GCC project experience is highly preferred.
• Preferred project backgrounds include five-star hotels, luxury hospitality, resorts, mixed-use developments, high-rise towers, landmark buildings, commercial and residential developments, and mega projects.

Core competencies

• Leadership and team building; project planning and execution; cost management and budget control; contract administration; risk management.
• Quality assurance and quality control; health, safety, and environment; resource management; site logistics; stakeholder management.
• SAP / ERP systems; speed of execution and agility; AI and digital construction fluency.