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About the Role

Chestertons MENA is expanding its Building Consultancy & Project Management team and is seeking a highly experienced Senior Planning Manager to join their dynamic operations. This role is crucial for overseeing and integrating planning activities across multiple complex projects, ensuring successful delivery within the specified timelines and objectives. The position is based in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, with potential involvement in projects across Jeddah, Makkah, and Riyadh. This role demands a strategic approach to project planning and controls, contributing significantly to the overall success of Chestertons' project portfolio in the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated master schedules across multiple projects utilizing Primavera P6 and equivalent planning tools.
• Prepare baseline programmes, detailed schedules, look-ahead programmes, recovery plans, and milestone tracking systems.
• Monitor project progress, critical paths, float consumption, and schedule deviations across all projects.
• Proactively identify delays, risks, bottlenecks, and coordination issues, proposing corrective actions and recovery strategies.
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Design Managers, consultants, contractors, and procurement teams to ensure programme alignment.
• Develop progress measurement systems, KPI dashboards, executive reports, and portfolio-level reporting tools.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, presentations, and management summaries for senior stakeholders and Board reporting.
• Support cashflow forecasting, manpower planning, resource loading, and project performance analysis.
• Conduct schedule risk assessments, delay analysis, Time Impact Analysis (TIA), and support Extension of Time (EOT) evaluations as required.
• Review contractor schedules, planning submissions, and recovery programmes for compliance and logic integrity.
• Support governance procedures, reporting standards, baseline controls, and change management processes across all projects.
• Coordinate planning activities between design, procurement, construction, authority approvals, and handover phases.
• Support project close-out activities, including completion tracking, handover milestones, and final reporting.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related field.
• Approximately 10 to 18 years of experience in project planning, project controls, or programme management roles.
• Proven experience managing planning activities for hospitality, mixed-use, commercial, infrastructure, or high-end construction projects.
• GCC experience is preferred.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Primavera P6, project controls, critical path analysis, and integrated scheduling.
• Experience in progress measurement, EVM reporting, dashboards, KPI reporting, and executive presentations.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, procurement coordination, fit-out delivery, and multidisciplinary project execution.
• Experience in delay analysis, recovery planning, TIA, EOT, and schedule risk management.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects within PMC, client-side, or portfolio management environments.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and Power BI.
• Strong coordination and analytical capabilities, particularly in fast-track project environments.
• Detail-oriented with strong follow-up and governance discipline.
• Comfortable operating and communicating effectively between management, consultants, contractors, and project delivery teams.

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position based in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Potential involvement in projects across Jeddah, Makkah, and Riyadh.

Application Process

To apply, please send your CV to c@*********************.