Badih Safah

Lead and manage the team and ensure procurement type and service is well defined and contractual milestones and deliverables have been realized.
- Liaison with the legal department and produce SLAs between the Bank and Service Providers (Design, Construction, and FM services).
- Establish dashboards and monitor KPIs to ensure all SLA requirements and deliverables have been met.
- Property Portfolio Management to include the operating budget.
- Formulate and define project plans and budgets based on the Bank expansion strategy. This includes the construction of new premises and the renovation of
existing facilities.
- Liaison with the finance department and produce annual Opex and Capex budgets for approval.

Key Projects:
- Standardize types of Bank contract agreements to include Consultants, Contractors, and Service Providers.
- Liaison and monitor the design and construction of new and renovated premises ranging from $1 Million to $13 Million.
- Established the Bank premises dashboard to include Branches, Novos, SMEs, ATMs, Offices, and monitor contractual milestones.

Provide leadership, vision, and direction to teams of Engineers, Architects and Quantity Surveyors to initiate, plan and implement commercial, hospitality and residential construction projects ranging from $2.4M to $75M in accordance with all project timelines and budgets.
- Liaison and interface regularly with clients, partners, and project team to review feedback on project goals and timelines, and track the various phases of project lifecycles.
- Negotiate within and across business lines on project strategy, functional impact and project deliverables towards the successful implementation of all projects.
- Formulate and define project plans that consider project strategy, deliverables, costs, resource allocation, and technical scope using project management planning and scheduling techniques
- Conduct weekly site inspections ensuring all key project control parameters including costs, schedules, and checks are delivered by the project team in accordance with company standards.
- Used Primavera P6 (8.3) and Microsoft Project software to establish project timelines, phases, activities, milestones, dependencies, and resource requirements in compliance with clients’ strategic direction.

Key Projects:
- Lebanon Water Front City, (Phase III/SP5 & SP6, Marina Dbayeh) a US $75 Million residential build project with a total of 6 buildings, comprised of 266 apartments, 742 car parks and built‐up area (BUA) of 67, 682 m².
- Rayhaan Dammam Corniche Hotel - KSA, a US $74 Million an upscale 5-star hotel with 285 guest rooms, having a total built‐up area (BUA) of 40, 677 m².
- Verdun Heights Residential Development, Lebanon, a US$ 35 Million residential and commercial building project with a total built‐up area (BUA) of 34, 000 m² comprise of 18 floors aboveground and 6 floors underground parking.
- Villa Parma Violetta - France a US $11 Million redesign and construction of 4 level villa to include hardscaping, landscaping, and swimming pool.

(4 years 7 months)

Lead a team of Engineers, Architects and Quantity Surveyors during Tender preparation, which included the following:
- Review and analyze tender documents
- Prepared suppliers matrix with their respective tender documents
- Issued request for quotations (RFQ)
- Evaluate Subcontracts/Suppliers offers
- Negotiate Subcontracts/Suppliers offers
- Insure instructions to tender and conditions of contract requirements are meet prior to Tender submission
- Prepared executive reports
In addition, was seconded to Site (duration 30 months) to assist the Project
Manager with the Planning Engineer duties that included:
- Coordination with Client
- Issue Notifications of Possible Delays (NPDs)
- Prepare and submit claims
- Assist with contractual issues
- Assist with Interim Payments
- Assist in progress reports
- Follow-up on material, procurement, shop drawings, clarification requests and submittals.