Project Manager, Moves & Changes (MAC)

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Job Description Project Manager Moves & Changes (MENA)

Job Title: Project Manager Moves & Changes (MAC) MENA

Business Line: JLL Work Dynamics Global Banking Client Account PMO

Location: Dubai UAE (with travel across the MENA portfolio as required)

Reports to: MENA Cluster Lead / PM Delivery Lead

Grade: P2

Role Purpose

Lead the delivery of moves adds and changes (MAC) and small works projects across the corporate real estate portfolio of a leading international banking client in MENA. The role owns end-to-end churn and minor project delivery from demand intake and scoping through planning vendor mobilisation execution and close-out within a regulated banking environment to JLL PMO governance standards and the clients security compliance and operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Moves & Churn Delivery

• Manage the full MAC lifecycle across the MENA portfolio: demand intake scoping migration planning stakeholder sign-off move execution and post-move review.
• Coordinate business unit relocations desk and team moves and restack/churn activity minimising disruption to live banking operations (including out-of-hours and weekend execution where required).
• Interface with the clients corporate real estate function business stakeholders FM IT and Security to sequence dependencies (data/voice access control asset moves BAU continuity).

Small Works / Minor Projects

• Deliver small works and minor fit-out projects end-to-end: scope definition cost estimates procurement coordination contractor management snagging and handover.
• Prepare project documentation to account standards scope documents programmes trackers risk logs change control and close-out reports.

Commercial & Vendor Management

• Obtain and evaluate quotations; raise and track POs; validate invoices; manage variations and cost control against approved budgets.
• Manage move contractors furniture vendors MEP and fit-out subcontractors in line with the clients procurement processes and panel arrangements.
• Maintain confirmed-vs-indicative discipline on all cost reporting.

Governance & Reporting

• Maintain a single source of truth for MAC and small works pipeline consolidated trackers status reporting and KPI inputs to the cluster lead.
• Apply account document control standards: version discipline document control tables audit-ready records.
• Ensure full compliance with the clients site access protocols H&S requirements and bank-environment constraints; escalate risks proactively and upstream of issues.

Regional Support

• Support the MENA Cluster Lead with regional reporting capacity cover across markets during peaks or transitions and continuous improvement of the MAC delivery process.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 58 years project management experience in corporate real estate corporate interiors or workplace delivery with demonstrable hands-on MAC/churn delivery.
• Experience delivering small works / minor capex projects (fit-out refurbishment workplace reconfiguration).
• Experience in banking financial services or similarly regulated corporate environments strongly preferred.
• MENA market experience and familiarity with regional contractor/vendor ecosystems.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; able to operate with senior client stakeholders and business units. Fluent English required; Arabic an advantage.
• Proficient in MS Project Excel and PowerPoint; CAFM/space management tools an advantage.
• Degree in Engineering Architecture Construction Management or related field. PMP / PRINCE2 an advantage.
• Willingness to travel across MENA markets.

Key Competencies

• Delivery discipline and ownership sees issues owns them solves them.
• Structured planner under pressure; comfortable running multiple concurrent moves/projects.
• Commercially aware cost control vendor negotiation change management.
• Precise audit-ready documentation habits.
• Client-facing professionalism in a premium banking environment.

Location:

On-site Dubai ARE

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Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1