Project Director

Currie & Brown is looking for a Project Director with significant experience in Hospitality to join our team in Dubai.

As a Project Director you will direct and manage the delivery of large and complex projects, manage relationships with senior stakeholders and provide leadership role to project teams. 

What will you be doing?

• Accountable for delivery of large scale and complex projects
• Responsible for project definition and delivery
• Lead a large team, setting objectives, managing performance and ensuring that staff have the necessary skills to deliver the project objectives
• Responsible for establishing project delivery plans and appropriate control and governance mechanisms to assure effective delivery of the project
• Manage multiple consultants and contractors
• Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to implement and manage project processes and policies. Provide insightful recommendations that may support any improvement to processes and systems
• Present any business project risks or issues to senior managers (with proposed mitigation) to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards
• Liaise and collaborate with clients and key stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations
• Analyse and review complex information from a range of data sources, in order to identify how different options may impact project delivery and advise clients and internal stakeholders on potential implications and mitigations
• Act as a technical expert within own projects, providing strategic advice to other senior managers, in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service
• Develop and manage team leaders
• Translate business objectives into operational financial targets, producing clearly defined business cases, plans and schedules for projects, and taking responsibility for meeting the profit and budgetary targets of the project
• Talent development and succession planning
• Deliver aspects of Currie & Brown’s vision to their respected project(s)

What do you need?

• 20+ years’ experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Project management professional certification or accreditation
• Previous experience leading large scale and complex projects
• Proven ability to manage, motivate and lead large teams
• Strong pre-contract and post-contract experience
• Excellent contract administration experience
• Leading project management expert
• Experience of managing stakeholders at executive level

Currie & Brown prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously.   Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.  

With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.