HEAD OF PROJECTS - GCC REGION
ALSHAYA ENTERPRISES
Total years of experience :19 years, 6 Months
- Head of a 40+ member project team across the GCC region consisting of Design, Procurement & Project Delivery departments
- Accountable for strategic planning for all current & upcoming projects
- Ensuring projects phases are delegated to department heads & conduct intermittent project reviews
- Responsible for managing a growing portfolio of projects across GCC region ranging up to and above 20m AED in value
- Responsible for driving the implementation of the company project delivery strategy
- Accountable for all NSO’s & Refurbishments in 250+ F&B outlets
- Designed an executed new process to streamline & value engineer the project and maintenance teams
- Accountable for project development, asset management, procurement, brand & store design
- Delivery of major international F&B brand UAE Flagship stores in premium UAE locations
- Accountable for project team delivering over 430m AED fit out projects for Commercial, Retail 7 F+B
- Played a pivotal role in program management of projects and openly communicated critical paths with stakeholders to proactively manage expectations
- Consistently achieved project milestones with culminated in prompt payment applications
- Drove procurement ensuring long lead items were identified and orders were played concurrently with the project program
- Grew the business from a start up to an annual turnover of 25m AED
- Specialized in delivering commercial, Retail & F+B projects in and around the London area
- Major clients included internationally recognized brands, 5* hotel chains
- Managed back office staff and sub-contractor appointment
- Commercially astute ensuring company margin was obtained
- Developing the business, engaging new clients, exploring marketing solutions to expand the business