Ref: MP689-213

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a project director for our Riyadh, Saudi Arabia office. The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Responsibilities for the successful candidate(s) will include:
- Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
- Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
- Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
- Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
- Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
- Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
- Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in cost management of projects
- Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships

Requirements

Candidates must have the following requirements
- BSc degree in civil engineering, construction management or equivalent
- Professional membership in either CIOB or MAPM
- Experience with project planning software, eg Primavera
- Middle East experience, working on major building projects
- A minimum of 15 years’ progressively responsible (managerial) experience, with at least five years in the Middle East
- Client and sector growth strategy and implementation planning experience
- Strong business development and team management experience
- Excellent customer service, communication and client/external interface skills
- Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
- Excellent communication and presentation skills both written and verbal
- A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering to deadlines

About the Company

Currie & Brown is one of the world's leading physical assets management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients in respect of the procurement, construction, management and utilisation of their physical assets.

From airports to corporate headquarters, power stations to health and education, leisure and hotel facilities to transportation infrastructure - the sheer range of projects we are involved in gives us a vast breadth and depth of experience. Projects of this kind cannot be tackled with an 'off-the-peg, one-size-fits-all' solution. Instead, we apply flexible working and innovative thinking to provide a value-for-money, tailored solution.

We operate throughout the world and have offices in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, India and the Middle East.

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Project Director salaries in Saudi Arabia

Average monthly compensation
SAR 57,500

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