Project Manager – Building Design, Strategy & Growth

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Job overview

AECOM is recruiting a Project Manager – Building Design, Strategy & Growth in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Official vacancy J10159530 is a management appointment within Business Development, with responsibility drawn from the employer's active job description.

Role purpose: AECOM is seeking an experienced Project Manager – Building Design, Strategy & Growth to join our Buildings + Places business in the Middle East.

Management responsibilities: This role is suited to an experienced project manager from a multidisciplinary building design consultancy who is commercially minded and looking to broaden their career beyond the management of individual projects.; Working within the Strategy & Growth team, you will apply this project delivery experience at the front end of the business, helping AECOM identify, shape, position, price and secure major building design commissions across the Middle East.; The role provides exposure to major clients, strategic pursuits, commercial decision-making and senior business leadership.; It offers a strong career pathway for an individual looking to progress from managing projects towards broader client, commercial, operational and corporate leadership roles.; • Lead and coordinate major building design pursuits from opportunity qualification through proposal development, commercial review and submission.; • Review RFPs, client briefs and supporting information to establish scope, deliverables, programme, interfaces and key risks.; • Apply practical project management and LDC experience to develop robust delivery strategies for multidisciplinary building commissions.; • Work with Architecture, Structures, MEP, Design Management and specialist disciplines to establish project organisation, resourcing, man-hour estimates and delivery programmes.; • Develop and challenge scopes, assumptions, exclusions and interfaces to ensure proposals are commercially and operationally robust.; • Support development of fee and commercial strategies, balancing competitiveness with deliverability, risk and appropriate commercial return.; • Identify project, contractual, programme and commercial risks and coordinate appropriate mitigation strategies.; • Coordinate inputs from multidisciplinary teams, regional offices and other AECOM business lines.

Candidate requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Project Management or a related built-environment discipline.; • Significant experience within a multidisciplinary building design consultancy.; • Demonstrable consultant-side experience as a Project Manager, Design Manager or in a comparable multidisciplinary role.; • Experience working within a Lead Design Consultant environment is strongly preferred.; • Strong understanding of the building design process and coordination of Architecture, Structures, MEP and specialist disciplines.; • Strong understanding of scope, programme, resourcing, change, project risk and commercial performance.; • Commercially minded, with the ability to understand the relationship between scope, resources, programme, risk and fee.; • Experience reviewing RFPs, developing scopes of services and coordinating multidisciplinary project requirements.; • Strong client-facing, communication and presentation skills.; • Ability to work through ambiguity and develop clear, practical and commercially sound recommendations.; • Middle East experience and knowledge of regional clients and major development programmes would be advantageous.;

Workplace and engagement: Contract, hybrid, based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Official employer vacancy J10159530.

Responsibilities

• This role is suited to an experienced project manager from a multidisciplinary building design consultancy who is commercially minded and looking to broaden their career beyond the management of individual projects.
• Working within the Strategy & Growth team, you will apply this project delivery experience at the front end of the business, helping AECOM identify, shape, position, price and secure major building design commissions across the Middle East.
• The role provides exposure to major clients, strategic pursuits, commercial decision-making and senior business leadership.
• It offers a strong career pathway for an individual looking to progress from managing projects towards broader client, commercial, operational and corporate leadership roles.
• Lead and coordinate major building design pursuits from opportunity qualification through proposal development, commercial review and submission.
• Review RFPs, client briefs and supporting information to establish scope, deliverables, programme, interfaces and key risks.
• Apply practical project management and LDC experience to develop robust delivery strategies for multidisciplinary building commissions.
• Work with Architecture, Structures, MEP, Design Management and specialist disciplines to establish project organisation, resourcing, man-hour estimates and delivery programmes.
• Develop and challenge scopes, assumptions, exclusions and interfaces to ensure proposals are commercially and operationally robust.
• Support development of fee and commercial strategies, balancing competitiveness with deliverability, risk and appropriate commercial return.
• Identify project, contractual, programme and commercial risks and coordinate appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate inputs from multidisciplinary teams, regional offices and other AECOM business lines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Project Management or a related built-environment discipline.
• Significant experience within a multidisciplinary building design consultancy.
• Demonstrable consultant-side experience as a Project Manager, Design Manager or in a comparable multidisciplinary role.
• Experience working within a Lead Design Consultant environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of the building design process and coordination of Architecture, Structures, MEP and specialist disciplines.
• Strong understanding of scope, programme, resourcing, change, project risk and commercial performance.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to understand the relationship between scope, resources, programme, risk and fee.
• Experience reviewing RFPs, developing scopes of services and coordinating multidisciplinary project requirements.
• Strong client-facing, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and develop clear, practical and commercially sound recommendations.
• Middle East experience and knowledge of regional clients and major development programmes would be advantageous.

Skills

• Project management
• Contract management
• Commercial management
• Design management
• Risk management
• Business strategy
• Growth planning
• Technical leadership
• MEP coordination

Salary and benefits

• At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
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• AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities, we solve our clients’ complex challenges in water.

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