Manager - Infrastructure Planning

About WhiteCrow

We are global talent research, insight, and sourcing specialists with offices in the UK, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai, and India. Our international reach has helped us to understand and penetrate specialist markets at a global level. In addition to this, our service is also extended to complement our client’s in-house talent acquisition teams.

About our client

Since its inception in 2000, our client has emerged as a prominent and fast-growing retail group serving markets across the Middle East. The organization partners with world-class fashion and lifestyle brands, delivering globally inspired products and experiences to discerning consumers throughout the GCC. Guided by a vision to become a leading regional gateway for international retailers, the company has successfully built a broad portfolio across diverse consumer categories. Its collaborative approach with global brand partners, combined with extensive market expertise and a customer-first mindset, has enabled sustained growth and ongoing expansion across the region. Today, our client remains well-positioned to capitalize on emerging opportunities within the dynamic Middle Eastern retail market.

As a Manager - Infrastructure Planning, you will be responsible for...

• Developing and maintaining project schedules, including the sequence of activities, timelines, and resource allocation for assigned projects in coordination with all company verticals/units, addressing key interfaces and milestones, and ensuring a clear and unified view of project timelines across the organization to enable effective management of project resources and finances.
• Managing planning and controls for assigned projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Establishing, monitoring, and controlling the integrated master schedule to ensure timely delivery, reviewing and approving contractor work programs, and maintaining progress reporting systems.
• Preparing weekly, monthly, or other required executive management reports, presentations, and dashboards.
• Providing various levels of reporting, from operational to strategic, based on the audience, including Project Managers, Directors, Executive Directors, CPDO, and ExCom.
• Ensuring that reporting delivers compelling messages and clear action points to enable management to make informed decisions.
• Establishing and regularly updating preconstruction reports and dashboards in coordination with Development and Procurement & Contracts teams.
• Reviewing and approving contractors’ baseline programs of work.
• Reviewing and evaluating contractors’, consultants’, and PMCs’ reports and forecast completion dates, and providing recommendations.
• Leading the planning teams for PMCs, consultants, and contractors.
• Reporting, monitoring, and controlling project KPIs, LOBs, cash flows, resources, and Line of Balance.
• Analyzing project performance data, identifying trends and risks, and providing proactive recommendations for corrective actions to Directors, Project Managers, and senior leadership.
• Evaluating resource allocation in collaboration with consultants, contractors, and company project teams, analyzing gaps between planned and actual project progress, highlighting areas of concern, and recommending necessary actions to optimize resource allocation and ensure timely project completion.
• Ensuring accurate review of consultants’ and contractors’ programs and daily, weekly, and monthly reports for management approval, including observations, comments, and mitigation recommendations, while maintaining quality control and mitigating project execution risks.
• Providing updated schedule information for submission to relevant authorities, such as DEWA and RERA, as required, ensuring timely and accurate project reporting to external stakeholders.
• Establishing annual plan delivery targets in terms of the number of units and gross value of work completed, and periodically monitoring and controlling the annual target plan to ensure achievement of the company’s balanced scorecard objectives.
• Reviewing and analyzing extension-of-time (EOT) claims submitted by contractors using appropriate delay analysis methodologies, as required by the circumstances of each case.
• Coordinating with various internal stakeholders and across different work packages, including buildings, infrastructure, and landscaping.
• Preparing assessment and recommendation reports for contractors’ EOT claims.
• Facilitating project risk management processes, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring.

What you already have...

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering ; Master’s degree preferred
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification - preferred
• Minimum 8-10 years of experience with atleast 2-4 years in projects planning preferably with construction and Real Estate Industry.