Senior Project Manager - Landscape Architecture

As a Senior Project Manager, you will act as the day-to-day point of contact for a wide portfolio of clients. Working in an agile and creative working environment, you will use your leadership skills and be responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale design projects. Throughout the design processes, you will work in close cooperation with the Studio and Design manager to manage the workflow of the wider team. 

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that project/s are delivered and managed successfully to the highest standards
• Collaborate closely with the Studio Director and Design Director as necessary
• Contribute to the creative, technical, and strategic direction of the project by working as key part of a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team
• Act as day-to-day client point of contact, facilitating the resolution of problems, in collaboration with project technical leadership
• Management of a large project team, including geographically distributed members
• Stakeholder management, including senior clients and Board level
• Identify and evaluate project risks/issues and able to devise & implement effective mitigation strategies
• Budget and capacity management
• Provide internal monthly and external project status reports
• Change request management and documentation
• Recognising and highlighting potential new business opportunities with the client
• Chair and co-ordinate large meetings and conference calls

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or Project Experience
• Extensive design related project management experience is desirable.
• Clear and demonstrable experience of delivering large projects in an agile environment.
• First class understanding and proven experience of budget, resourcing and capacity management.
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills, able to manage and schedule the team’s workflow.
• Resourceful – able to find solutions to technical and management issues in a logical and coherent manner.
• Strong focus on quality of output to ensure the only the best possible outcome is delivered.
• Able to work calmly under pressure of deadlines and delivery.
• Knowledge of landscape architecture and design is desirable but not essential.
• Formal Agile qualification highly desirable.
• Experience working with Smartsheet and Harvest or equal technologies for the planning and tracking of our projects.
• Understanding of Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft technologies (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Outlook).
• Experience working with Aconex platform
• PrimaVera Project Management Software
• Project management experience in complex projects in Middle East