Assistant Manager | Planning | Internal Audit

The team:

Our Real Estate and Infrastructure team works with leading developers, investors, and other stakeholders across the real-estate sector to support effective planning, monitoring, and delivery of complex projects.

The team supports clients in establishing robust project governance and monitoring frameworks across the project lifecycle, with a focus on schedule, cost, contracts and procurement, design coordination, construction progress, risks, and management reporting.

Your work profile:

• Manage and support PMO and project monitoring engagements for residential real-estate projects across planning, design, procurement, construction, and handover stages
• Review and monitor master project schedules, construction programmes, key milestones, critical paths, dependencies, and look-ahead plans
• Monitor actual project progress against approved baselines and identify delays, bottlenecks, constraints, and potential schedule slippages
• Conduct periodic site visits and progress reviews to assess physical progress against reported progress and planned milestones
• Monitor project budgets, commitments, actual expenditure, cash flows, forecasts, variations, and potential cost overruns in coordination with relevant project stakeholders
• Track contracts and procurement activities, including tender packages, contractor/vendor appointments, procurement schedules, long-lead items, and contractual milestones
• Monitor design development and design coordination, including status of drawings, approvals, RFIs, design changes, and interfaces between architectural, structural, MEP, and other disciplines
• Monitor construction progress across civil, structural, architectural, facade, finishes, MEP, external development, and other relevant work packages
• Track key statutory and regulatory approvals, including applicable project approvals and RERA-related project milestones and commitments
• Establish and maintain risk, issue, action, and decision trackers and proactively identify risks that could impact project cost, schedule, quality, or delivery
• Monitor change requests and variations and assess their potential impact on project cost and timelines
• Coordinate with developers, PMCs, architects, design consultants, contractors, cost consultants, and other project stakeholders to drive closure of project issues and action items
• Prepare weekly and monthly project dashboards, MIS reports, progress reports, management presentations, and executive summaries
• Analyse project information to highlight critical risks, delays, cost concerns, dependencies, and management decisions required
• Participate in and facilitate periodic project review meetings, document key decisions and action items, and follow up with relevant stakeholders for closure
• Support senior team members in client meetings and present project status and key observations to client stakeholders
• Review project documentation and data submitted by various stakeholders to ensure consistency, completeness, and accuracy of PMO reporting
• Coordinate with and guide junior team members involved in project monitoring, data analysis, progress tracking, and reporting

Key skills required:

• Education: B.E./B.Tech in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline, preferably with relevant postgraduate qualification in Construction/Project Management
• Relevant experience in residential real estate, project management, project monitoring, PMC, project controls, or construction advisory
• Strong understanding of the residential project lifecycle, including design, approvals, procurement, construction, testing, handover, and close-out
• Good understanding of project planning and scheduling, cost monitoring, contracts and procurement, risk management, and project governance
• Experience in reviewing construction schedules, progress reports, cost reports, procurement trackers, risk registers, and other project controls documentation
• Working knowledge of Primavera P6 and/or MS Project, with strong proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to analyse project schedules, identify critical path activities, delays, dependencies, and potential schedule risks
• Understanding of construction sequencing and major packages associated with high-rise and residential developments, including structure, facade, finishes, MEP, and external development
• Familiarity with RERA and statutory approval requirements applicable to residential real-estate projects would be preferred
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, report-writing, and presentation skills
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to coordinate effectively with developers, PMCs, consultants, contractors, and vendors
• Ability to work in a site-oriented, fast-paced project environment while managing multiple priorities and reporting requirements

Leadership capabilities:

• Demonstrates ownership and accountability for assigned PMO workstreams and deliverables
• Independently manages project monitoring activities and coordinates effectively with multiple stakeholders
• Proactively identifies project risks, delays, and emerging issues and ensures timely escalation
• Converts detailed project information into clear, fact-based management insights and actionable recommendations
• Builds effective relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, and internal stakeholders
• Guides junior team members and ensures accuracy and quality of project monitoring and reporting
• Demonstrates sound professional judgment, commercial awareness, and problem-solving capabilities
• Drives quality, structured governance, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence across engagements