Senior Planning Manager (Arabic Speaker)

Turner & Townsend

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.

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.