Project Manager at Savills in Ash Sheikh Zayed, Giza, Egypt

The Role

The Project Manager is responsible for leading and managing the successful delivery of projects from inception through to completion, ensuring that project objectives are achieved in accordance with the agreed scope, programme, budget, quality standards, and client expectations.

The role requires a proactive, commercially aware, and client-focused professional capable of managing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating stakeholders, mitigating project risks, and providing effective leadership throughout all project stages.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects, ensuring alignment with the client's objectives and business requirements.
• Establish project execution strategies, delivery plans, governance structures, and reporting procedures.
• Manage project activities across the design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover stages.
• Ensure project deliverables are achieved in accordance with approved programmes, budgets, and quality requirements.
• Develop, review, and monitor detailed project programmes, ensuring critical milestones and dependencies are effectively managed.
• Monitor project progress against approved baselines, identify deviations, and recommend corrective actions.
• Work closely with Cost Management teams to monitor project expenditure, assess financial implications, and maintain budgetary control.
• Review contractor progress, payment applications, variations, and claims in coordination with the relevant commercial teams.
• Provide accurate forecasting and regular reporting on project performance.
• Manage procurement activities, including tender documentation, tender evaluations, technical and commercial assessments, and contract award recommendations.
• Administer project contracts in accordance with the agreed contractual conditions and project governance procedures.
• Monitor contractor performance and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
• Manage contractual correspondence, instructions, variations, extensions of time, and claims in coordination with the relevant stakeholders.
• Identify contractual and commercial risks and ensure they are appropriately managed and escalated.
• Lead and coordinate project teams, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability.
• Prepare, review, and coordinate the drafting of project contracts, agreements, Letters of Award (LOAs), Letters of Intent (LOIs), and other contractual documents.
• Develop project-specific contract conditions and scopes of work, ensuring alignment with the project requirements, procurement strategy, and client's commercial objectives.
• Review standard forms of contract, including FIDIC-based contracts, and recommend appropriate amendments and particular conditions to address project-specific risks.
• Coordinate with the client's legal and commercial teams to ensure contractual documents accurately reflect agreed commercial, technical, and legal obligations.
• Prepare and review tender documentation, including employer's requirements, scope of services, technical specifications, contractual conditions, and tender instructions.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Construction Management or similar
• Construction fit-out background is essential.
• Industrial projects experience is an advantage.
• 6+ years of experience in the same field
• Advanced knowledge of fit-out Project Management consultancy
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent understanding of MS Project software.
• Understanding of contract production and implementation (FIDIC or similar).
• PMP certified or equivalent, (Professional qualifications or memberships such as MRICS, AssocRICS, MCIOB, or equivalent are considered an advantage)
• Strategic, proactive with a ‘can do’ mindset.Excellent at multi-tasking, highly organized.