Director – Project Resourcing & Performance

In addition, the role will oversee and support the monitoring of project performance from a commercial standpoint, ensuring resources are utilized effectively, margins are protected, and clients receive value-driven delivery. This role combines hands-on resourcing decisions, commercial insight, and people leadership to enable sustained growth and delivery excellence.

• Establish structured career development pathways and oversee their execution.
• Develop and implement resource strategies aligned with divisional business objectives.
• Provide input on pricing strategies, staffing approaches, and delivery models for proposals.
• Partner with Project Managers and the Construction Services Director to resolve performance challenges, ensuring corrective actions are implemented.
• Provide commercial insights into resource deployment decisions to optimise project profitability and client satisfaction.
• Build strong relationships across the division to align people strategy with business goals.
• Contribute to winning strategies by aligning people and resourcing plans with commercial targets and client expectations.
• Monitor project performance through a commercial lens, including resource utilisation, and productivity, and margin protection.
• Collaborate with project leaders, HR, and commercial teams to ensure resourcing and performance decisions are informed, balanced, and delivery-focused.
• Partner with HR to create consistent frameworks for position descriptions, competencies, and behaviours.
• Engage in client-facing discussions where resource strategy and performance are key to securing work.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Executive Director.
• Lead resourcing planning and execution across bids and projects, balancing capability, cost, and client needs.
• Champion a culture of collaboration, performance, and progression across the division.
• Input into the development of financial models for bids, ensuring competitiveness and sustainability.

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 15 + years work experience in a similar within a similar industry partnered with a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent), Master's is preferable.

• Proven experience in largescale Project Management, Planning and Project Delivery within the GCC.
• Proven experience in delivering largescale Construction projects.

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards.