Job Description

Senior Project Manager
Dubai
27,000 AED/Month
Our client is an award-winning, global, events agency specialising in high-end, luxury experiential and live events for their clients. Their clients include BMW, Fendi, Cartier, JLR, and Charlotte Tilbury. Their looking for a Senior Project Manager to successfully manage and co-ordinate large scale events across the region.
Responsibilities:

• Direct and coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget for you and your direct reports, if applicable
• Mentor and support your junior peers in the definition of project scope and objectives, and how they must involve all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Provide feedback and suggest methods of increasing future performances if necessary
• Support team if issues, support is needed due to escalated concerns/issues
• Communication with team, project lead/ Associate Project Director, higher management and client
• Proactively support juniors in guiding them of best practice and methods in managing the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Meet with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project
• To support in concept development during pitch
• Maintain a complete overview of all projects
• Provide support on financial processing
• Financially plan and manage a project from pitch through to reconciliation
• Manage multiple & complex budgets
• Delegate project tasks based on junior staff members' and peers individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long term goals
• Deliver individual sub-projects or pitch/project components
• Meet budgetary objectives and make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis
• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members
• Use and continually develop leadership skills
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Specific Senior PM Requirements for role

• Working without a concrete brief
• Support of projects and client acquisition (with aim of independent and complete acquisition)
• Opinion creator - own topic owner (development, creation and presenting) - internally and externally
• Serve as a role model both in project execution & behaviour to team members
• Complete overview of multiple projects
• De-escalation skills during projects, anticipating and strategizing tasks and necessary moves during projects
• Introducing new topics to PMs and interns
• Confident and independent project planning, calculation, lead, control (incl. budget)
• Development of annual plan

If you're interested in hearing more, please apply with an up-to-date CV to be considered.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
CONTACT Molly Clifford