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Ref: SP117-221
Job description / Role
Faithful+Gould are looking for Senior Manager - Smart Cities to be based in Al Ula, KSA
The key responsibilities for the role include:
- Lead the delivery of digital transformation and smart city projects across the region. develop analysis, run and engage client teams and stakeholders, and deliver high-quality work products.
- Provide technical and expert support in the design and preparation of particular actions and inclusive urban development/future city processes
- Offer innovative approaches to future city actions by developing Smart City Masterplans and processes, based on global trends but considering local contexts, demands and place-sourced opportunities;
- Identify traditional urban infrastructure assets (both physical and social) and enhance this with elements of future technology urban infrastructure assets including datasets, networks, connected devices, and sensors, for future smart services and applications;
- Work alongside our Land Use & Built Environment Masterplanning and Urban Design teams to identify a portfolio of smart city solutions with potential to improve the quality of life and address dimensions such as Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Net Zero Agenda, Smart Living, Smart Mobility, Smart People and Smart Governance.
- Establish relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels to cultivate and manage business development opportunities and to be able to develop the appropriate Business Case and next steps to Project realisation.
Requirements
Required Skills and expertise:
- Experienced in all phases of digital transformation and smart city project more more than 10 years
- Degree qualified from an accredited international university
- Familiar with Masterplanning and Urban Design processes
- Experience in developing digital strategies and implementing digital transformation in large organisations
- Proven ability to work in a customer facing/consulting environment
- Experience leading projects through all phases of the lifecycle
- Strong appreciation of the 'Smart Cities Landscape' in the Middle East and have networks within the supply chain/vendor environment
- Strong analytical skills, creativity and communication skills to encourage clients to execute their digital roadmap.
- Strong Presentation skills
- Manage and mentor individuals and teams
- Play an active role in support our company values include ED&I, Safety, Integrity & Collaboration
SNC Lavalin's Faithful+Gould business is one of the world's leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.
Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients' interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.
Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.
Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.
Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting - and then developing - brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It's precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.
Acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, we also have an extensive depth of geographic exposure across 50 countries and the breadth of 53,000 experts. As one of the largest engineering contractors, we have access to 17,000 staff in the Middle East making us one of the largest multidisciplinary consultancies in the region.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer an excellent package which includes:
- A competitive tax-free salary
- Accommodation allowance
- Transportation allowance
- 22 days annual leave
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Company gratuity scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin
- Employee Assistance Program - 24-hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants
About the Company
SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.
Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.
Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.
Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.
Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.