Senior Planning Manager, PDS Projects - Riyadh, SAU

We are looking for a Senior Planning Manager for our Project & Development Services business line.

About JLL

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If you’re looking to step up your career, JLL is the perfect professional home. At JLL, you’ll have a chance to innovate with the world’s leading businesses, put that expertise into action on landmark projects, and work on game-changing real estate initiatives. You’ll also make long-lasting professional connections through sharing different perspectives, and you’ll be inspired by the best. We’re focused on opportunity and want to help you make the most of yours. Achieve your ambitions – join us at JLL!

About Project and Development Services (PDS)
JLL is a world class real estate development partner for our investor and corporate clients. Our services affect how millions of people live, work, and play every day. It is our responsibility to nurture the impact we can have on all projects and bring value into every detail. From development advisory to project and cost management, from program management to engineering design and sustainability, from fit-out to asset repositioning and major base-build schemes, our services span every dimension across all asset types, sectors and regions.

JLL’s PDS team comprises 8,900 project managers, engineers, designers and architects across 50 countries and is actively managing 36,900+ projects yearly. Join the PDS team to expect more and achieve more. There’s room for you to design and build your career within the PDS community and the wider JLL ecosystem. Meet with Julien Walid Goudiard, Head of PDS EMEA at JLL

Role Purpose

We are currently looking for a Senior Planning Manager for our P&DS team based in Riyadh, KSA.

What this job involves

• Reviewing initial scheduled and developing as required to ascertain the sequencing and timelines for proposed construction events. 
• Maintaining the schedule baselines and ensure mechanisms are in place to monitor performance. 
• Working closely with the client, consultants and contractors. 
• Oversee the project controls activities of Engineering, Procurement and Construction.
• Oversee project progress against established timelines and milestones, promptly addressing any delays or deviations that may arise. 
• Implement project controls processes, procedure and systems.
• Providing strategic direction to project in controlling, planning and economic/value management.
• Consultant representative at meetings with the Client, other third parties, and contractors relating to schedule matters.
• Review overall project status with the Project Management team and recommend corrective action where necessary. 

• Use a clear, systematic approach to solving complex issues and able to communicate solutions in an effective, efficient, high level manner. 
• Tracking and reporting on change management events that affect the timely delivery of the project.
• Coordinating and managing multiple stakeholders and demonstrate the ability to build relationships. 
• Establish project planning process and procedure to include within the PEP (Project Execution Plan).
• To be able to prepare all the Project management Plans, PMP, PEP, SMP, etc. in full coordination with the Project Team.
• Assure integration of sub-schedules from all parties (functions, subdivisions) involved in the projects. 
• Tracks and reports progress against the baseline schedule and continuously monitors risks and opportunities as well as proactively develops scenarios, mitigation or back-up plans required. 
• Report on schedule progress inclusive of contractual spend utilising reporting metrics including EV (earned value) and PV (planned value) and deviations within all functions and parties involved in the project. 
• Produce schedule-related KPI's as required by the project. 
• Supporting and challenge the project directors on proposed technical solutions taking into consideration both financial/cost, schedule and risk optimization.
• Lead meetings related to the schedule and its associated process and procedure.
• Manage client expectations and ensure satisfaction. 
• Ensure adherence to Quality Control processes, resulting in the delivery of the highest quality work to the client. 
• Responsible for coordinating with other discipline managers in the team to provide direction to the consultant staff and foster a spirit of collaboration throughout the construction supervision services. 
• Manage, with the support of all Project Team members, the effective communication to all functions of their duties and responsibilities in the execution of the schedule. 

Required skills and experience for this job

• P6 trained with strong skills utilising this software.
• Degree Qualification is preferred.
• Professional Memberships are an advantage but not essential.
• Extensive experience as a planning manager in the construction industry.
• Major international project experience is essential.
• Must have experience in mixed-use building projects and retail projects.
• Excellent written and verbal skills with a fluent proficiency in English.

What you can expect from us

You’ll join an entrepreneurial, inclusive culture. One where we succeed together – across the desk and around the globe. Where like-minded people work naturally together to achieve great things.

Our Total Rewards program reflects our commitment to helping you achieve your ambitions in career, recognition, wellbeing, benefits and pay.

Join us to develop your strengths and enjoy a fulfilling career full of varied experiences. Keep those ambitions in sights and imagine where JLL can take you...

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Location:

On-site –Riyadh, SAU

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If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

About JLL –

For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAY. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.

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