Project Manager – Building Design, Strategy & Growth

Project Manager – Building Design, Strategy & Growth Contract State/Province: Dubai Business Group: DCS Legal Entity: AECOM MIDDLE EAST LIMITED ABU DHABI - MANAGEMENT OFFICE Business Line: Building Engineering Work Location Model: Hybrid Operating Group: International Primary Location: AE - Dubai, UAE - Dubai South Company Description Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

AECOM is seeking an experienced Project Manager – Building Design, Strategy & Growth to join our Buildings + Places business in the Middle East. This role is suited to an experienced project manager from a multidisciplinary building design consultancy who is commercially minded and looking to broaden their career beyond the management of individual projects. The successful candidate will ideally have worked on the consultant side as a Project Manager, Design Manager or within a Lead Design Consultant (LDC) environment, with a strong understanding of multidisciplinary design delivery, scope, programme, resourcing, commercial performance and risk. Working within the Strategy & Growth team, you will apply this project delivery experience at the front end of the business, helping AECOM identify, shape, position, price and secure major building design commissions across the Middle East. The role provides exposure to major clients, strategic pursuits, commercial decision-making and senior business leadership. It offers a strong career pathway for an individual looking to progress from managing projects towards broader client, commercial, operational and corporate leadership roles. Responsibilities • Lead and coordinate major building design pursuits from opportunity qualification through proposal development, commercial review and submission. • Review RFPs, client briefs and supporting information to establish scope, deliverables, programme, interfaces and key risks. • Apply practical project management and LDC experience to develop robust delivery strategies for multidisciplinary building commissions. • Work with Architecture, Structures, MEP, Design Management and specialist disciplines to establish project organisation, resourcing, man-hour estimates and delivery programmes. • Develop and challenge scopes, assumptions, exclusions and interfaces to ensure proposals are commercially and operationally robust. • Support development of fee and commercial strategies, balancing competitiveness with deliverability, risk and appropriate commercial return. • Identify project, contractual, programme and commercial risks and coordinate appropriate mitigation strategies. • Coordinate inputs from multidisciplinary teams, regional offices and other AECOM business lines. • Participate in client engagement, technical workshops, presentations and commercial discussions during the pursuit process. • Support opportunity qualification and go/no-go decisions through clear assessment of scope, resources, competitive position and risk. • Coordinate subconsultant strategies, including scope, commercial evaluation and negotiations. • Ensure compliance with