Senior Project Manager, Freelance

Charcoalblue Experience is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of large-scale event and experience-related venues and activations. The role manages project lifecycles involving audiovisual, digital, construction, and scenic installations, while coordinating stakeholders, managing risks, and supporting project portfolio growth across the Middle East.

Responsibilities:

• Provide full project life cycle ownership for projects, developing comprehensive project plans for the implementation and successful delivery of projects, from initiation to closeout, focusing on understanding interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
• Deliver and maintain progress reports and presentations to key stakeholders and partners as required
• Meticulously engage our teams in planning and scheduling activities, actively soliciting status updates and iterating based on applicable context
• Provide strategic engagement and coordination through the stages of design ensuring that the requirements of AV and entertainment technology systems are represented and communicated effectively into the overall building strategy
• Facilitate/Attend Owner-Architect-Client meetings and site walks
• Provide robust hands-on risk assessments and mitigation, with an eye on exploiting opportunities
• Contribute to our environment of perpetual learning via lessons learned during or post closeout
• Engage with Senior Leadership to ensure best working practices and industry standards are maintained if not exceeded across the portfolio and service

Requirements:

• We're looking for an empathetic, thoughtful candidate who has enthusiasm for managing and helping people, as well as expertise in scaling up our project delivery discipline to meet the needs of a quickly growing global entertainment design and delivery company
• You bring a unique skill set and perspective to any table you have a seat at
• You are comfortable at the head of that table
• You ensure your solutions benefit our clients, end users, and Charcoalblue equally
• You will provide superb judgment in executing your responsibilities, stemming from an ease with critical thinking, and an understanding of the risk landscape
• Ten years' experience of professional project management work at a senior level with a focus on AV & entertainment technology design and integrations, architecture, events spaces, within construction-related fields
• Demonstrable knowledge base of core project management competencies with strengths in: project integration management, scope management, planning/scheduling, cost management, communication management, risk management, and stakeholder management
• Fundamental understanding of AV system functionality and installation process, sequencing, and techniques
• Deep understanding of location specific ways of working and cultural intricacies of the Middle East/ specifically KSA
• High energy and enthusiasm, with a strong commitment to exceeding client expectations
• Ability to learn quickly, make an immediate impact, and provide value added service to our client
• Confidence in professional aptitude and ability to effectively convey skills, knowledge, and qualifications to client
• Team player with a strong desire to be an active, long-term participant in the growth of our relationships with clients, vendors, the project delivery team and the company overall
• Ability to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment with a high degree of self-motivation and initiative
• Detail oriented with ability to think, plan, and execute on multiple projects in different phases simultaneously, calmly and effectively under pressure
• Understands the value of in-person communication, engagement and presence
• Experience delivering mega projects and working within complex construction environments is preferred