Senior Project Manager

Job description / Role

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration through conceptualization to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years, we've led with vision, contributing to many of the world's most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences, and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you'll discover more than just a job - you'll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counseling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun runs, in-house sports teams, and beach clean-ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits, you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, and employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Project Manager in Riyadh, KSA.

The focus of this role is to oversee complex projects from inception to completion, ensuring they meet all scope, timeline, and budget requirements. You will be comfortable managing multiple large-scale projects that require strategic planning and stakeholder management.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Representing the firm in communications with the client, sub-contractors, and joint venture partners, as delegated by the Project Director or Executive Director.
• Leading the delivery of large multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.
• Effective preparation, planning, and control of financial budgets and team resources in order to deliver the required commercial and project outcomes.
• Planning, preparing, and managing complex programs and project contracts.
• Ensuring project standards and quality management system procedures are implemented across each of the technical areas involved in the project, including project administration.
• Ensuring terms of the contract are followed and managing scope changes and their effect on delivery of project objectives.
• Preparing monthly project reports and input to consolidated division reports.
• Leading a team of professional employees, driving increased organizational performance and achievement of team goals.
• Analyzing existing work processes, procedures, and systems, identifying opportunities for increased efficiencies, cost-effectiveness, and service improvements.
• Participating in business development activities, including tender proposal preparation and presentations.
• Anticipating and objectively and systematically analyzing and resolving complex problems.
• Proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating project risks.
• Leading and developing strong communication and working relationships with staff, management, subcontractors, and clients which support collaborative work practices.
• Ensuring the effective functioning of diverse, large, complex, and/or multidisciplinary teams by using appropriate interpersonal styles to promote team cohesion and collaboration.
• Managing own continuous development and facilitating the development of team members through monitoring of staff performance and day-to-day coaching and feedback.
• Ensuring integration of health, safety, and sustainability principles in all inputs and outputs of the team.

Qualifications

• To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include at least 12 years of experience in a consultancy environment, of which at least 5 years were spent working on projects within the GCC, partnered with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• The successful candidate will have spent the majority of their career within the consultancy sector where major scale infrastructure projects were handled primarily in the early phases.
• Strong project management skills will be sought as the role requires extensive understanding of the financial element of projects.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety, and our people. We embrace diversity and recognize its contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.

About the Company

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.