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About the Company

Sumou Global Investment (SGI), a principal investor within Sumou Group, leverages a substantial asset base and an extensive land portfolio to foster strategic growth and long-term value in the region. SGI acts as a synergy hub connecting its affiliated entities including Sumou Real Estate, Adeer Real Estate, Sumou Holding, and Bona Company, nurturing an innovative and growth-focused environment for professionals.

Role Purpose

This role is responsible for establishing and directly managing SGI’s planning and project controls operations across assigned projects and the broader portfolio. It involves developing and maintaining trustworthy project schedules, monitoring actual progress, forecasting outcomes, initiating corrective measures, and preparing thorough monthly reports for senior leadership and investors.

Scope and Responsibilities

Functioning as a hands-on individual contributor without initial support from planners or coordinators, managing schedules, dashboards, analyses, and reports personally.
Covering diverse real estate projects including residential, commercial, hospitality, mixed-use, infrastructure from early stages through design, procurement, construction, and handover.
Independently validating project progress and forecasts by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders such as Project Directors, consultants, contractors, and cost advisors.
Creating and implementing procedures, templates, and reporting frameworks to expand SGI’s project controls capabilities.
Developing comprehensive project schedules from scratch using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project, designing WBS, activity logic, milestones, and critical path analysis.
Maintaining approved master schedules and integrated portfolio milestone plans, ensuring alignment with business cases, contractual milestones, and project deliverables.
Collecting and verifying progress updates, performing schedule analyses, and maintaining auditable records.
Forecasting project timelines, identifying delays early, recommending recovery actions, and monitoring their implementation.
Preparing extensive monthly executive reports and dashboards with status, progress, forecasts, risks, costs, and relevant visuals for CEO and fund managers.
Coordinating with finance and cost consultants to align schedule progress with budgets, cash flows, and payment statuses, flagging discrepancies.
Providing schedule-related analysis and documentation to support claims, change requests, and extensions of time within delegated authority limits.
Establishing project controls governance including planning procedures, coding standards, reporting calendars, and escalation protocols.

Key Activities

Create and maintain detailed development and delivery schedules for every project using Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
Update schedules regularly within established deadlines and manage baseline, current, and recovery programme versions.
Lead or assist schedule update meetings, critically evaluating schedule data and logic.
Prepare executive-level dashboards and detailed monthly reports independently.
Maintain various project trackers including milestone, design approvals, procurement, risk, and recovery logs.
Attend project meetings and site visits to verify progress for accurate reporting.
Support Project Directors with decision-making papers, presentations, and schedule recommendations.

Decision Authority

Set and manage planning methodologies, coding structures, progress measurement rules, and reporting templates.
Challenge and validate schedule, progress, risk, cost, and reporting data from stakeholders.
Advise on acceptance or rejection of schedules, recovery plans, and time extension requests.
Escalate critical delays, unrealistic forecasts, data gaps, and project risks to senior management.
No independent authority for approving contractual payments, claims, or budget changes without delegated approval.

Interactions

Internal: CEO, executive management, project directors, design and engineering teams, finance, procurement, contracts, document management, marketing, and sales.
External: fund managers, capital partners, advisors, consultants, contractors, authorities, and other specialists.

Deliverables

Master schedules and baselines directly prepared and maintained.
Integrated portfolio milestone dashboards.
Monthly performance reports for CEO and fund managers with analysis and forecasts.
Supporting documentation for claims and extensions of time.

Performance Indicators

Accurate ownership and timely updates of all required schedules with minimal corrections.
Preparation and timely submission of comprehensive, decision-focused monthly reports.
Effective early identification, escalation, and resolution of schedule delays and risks.
Provision of consistent, auditable, and current portfolio information to management.

Qualifications and Skills

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or closely related field.
8 to 12 years of experience in project planning and controls, including at least five years hands-on schedule development on large mixed-use, hospitality, commercial, residential, infrastructure, or construction projects.
Proficient in Primavera P6 with the ability to build schedules from the ground up.
Strong reporting skills including preparation of executive summaries, dashboards, variance analyses, and management presentations.
Advanced competency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project; experience with Power BI or similar dashboard tools preferred.
Deep understanding of critical path method, progress measurement, schedule risk, recovery planning, cost-schedule integration, cash flow, IPCs, claims, and change management.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills; Arabic language skills are advantageous.
Professional certification such as PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP or equivalent is preferred.

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