Senior Planning Manager (Arabic Speaker)

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

• Provide support to the project team for all planning functions ensuring that issues within the programme are highlighted and understood.
• Give appropriate planning advice and direction to project team members & all relevant Stakeholders and produce programme assurance reports on our Client commissions.
• Produce progress reports showing variance against the baselines.
• Deliver Period Programme Updates and input to project reports.
• Coordinate between Clients and their Partners’, consultants’ and contractors’ programmes of works and compliance with the Project Programme. Reporting areas of ‘non-compliance’ for resolution.
• As appropriate and required, provide planning support to the bidding team to do all the activities necessary to submit the bidding documentations in time.

Qualifications

Skills and Competencies

• A minimum of 20 years’ post graduate experience at a senior level with the management of large scale infrastructure and building programmes, preferably including experience in the Gulf region and having worked on the client side;

• A demonstrated successful track record of leading the schedule planning of major projects and programmes of a large organisation involved with the design and construction of large scale infrastructure and building programmes;

• Current and detailed knowledge of various project and programme scheduling tools

• A successful track record of developing good relationships and networks within a large organisation and with external agencies;

• Able to represent Client with internal departments and external organisations in a professional and authoritative manner; and

• Must have excellent skills in preparing reports, drafting letters, and making presentations to senior management and senior representatives of stakeholder organisations.

• Industry experience within real estate and residential.Mandatory requirements

• University degree from a recognised university in a relevant field, this may include but is not limited to: engineering, project management, program management;

• Must have excellent communication skills in English, written and spoken; and

• Driver's Licence.

Desirable requirements

• Highly desirable to have Arabic language skills;

• Highly desirable to have experience in a similar role in KSA and / or the Gulf region;

• Master’s degree or higher qualification related to schedule planning

• Be professionally qualified as PMP or equivalent.

Additional Information

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Exposure to a wide range of challenging projects.Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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