Senior Manager- Project Planning & Coordinator

Role & responsibilities

Stakeholder & Consultant Coordination:

• Act as the single point of contact for end-to-end coordination across client representatives, the Project Director, the Interior Design team, consultants, specialist vendors, contractors and the tower's basebuilding team.
• Run weekly design-coordination and site review meetings; issue minutes and track actions and decisions to closure.
• Maintain the consultant coordination and responsibility matrices, and ensure interfaces between disciplines (architectural, structural, MEP, faade, lighting, landscape, kitchen and automation) are resolved before drawings are released for execution.
• Coordinate with the base-building team on slab and services handover, risers and connections, faade and lift interfaces, building rules, work permits, material movement andOC-related requirements.

Design Information & Change Management:

• Maintain a drawing and submittal register; ensure timely availability of issued-for-construction drawings, shop drawings, samples and mock-up approvals, and review them for constructability and risk with the consultants.
• Manage RFIs and design change requests; assess impact on cost and programme and obtain approvals before implementation.

Planning, Cost & Procurement:

• Develop and maintain the integrated master programme; identify the critical path and long-lead items (stone, joinery, imported fittings, FF&E) and drive recovery plans.
• Support package strategy, tendering, technical-commercial evaluation and award in collaboration with the Contracts and Budgeting team.
• Track project budget, cost-to-complete, variations and contractor bills; coordinate with the Finance team for timely pay-outs to contractors and vendors.

Execution, Quality & Safety:

• Lead and direct the Finishes and MEP supervisors; review site progress regularly and ensure first-timeright execution against approved drawings, samples and mock-ups.
• Oversee quality inspections, testing and commissioning, snagging, handover and defects liability closure in coordination with the Facilities and Handover team.
• Ensure compliance with safety, statutory and building requirements, protection of finished work, and site security and client confidentiality.

Reporting & Process Improvement:

• Maintain daily tracking of tasks, site activities and open actions across the supervisors, contractors and consultants, and consolidate it for review.
• Submit a weekly site status report to the Project Director covering progress against the master programme, cost, quality, safety, pending decisions and upcoming milestones.
• Flag potential risks and delays (design, procurement, base-building, approvals, cost and safety) early, with an assessment of impact and proposed mitigation.
• Identify areas of process improvement within the work scope and implement necessary changes.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (mandatory).
• Postgraduate qualification in Construction Management from NICMAR (preferred).

Experience:

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in real estate or construction project management, including at least 5 years on luxury residential, hospitality or high-end interior fit-out projects.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating high-value interior packages involving multiple design consultants, specialist vendors and contractors.
• Experience leading a small site team and managing contractors and vendors on a single, complex project.
• Prior experience in luxury residential and hospitality projects will be given weightage.