Project Manager
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About the Role
Arena Europe, Middle East & Asia seeks an experienced Freelance Project Manager for short-term projects in UAE & KSA. You will lead planning, coordination, and delivery of complex event, exhibition, and temporary structure projects.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the full project lifecycle from planning, budgeting, procurement, and resource allocation through execution and project close out
- Manage project programmes, timelines, budgets, deliverables, and reporting requirements
- Coordinate with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal departments to ensure successful project delivery
- Oversee all on site activities, ensuring compliance with quality, health, safety, and operational standards
- Identify and mitigate project risks while proactively resolving issues that may impact delivery
- Monitor project performance, costs, schedules, and resources to ensure commercial and operational objectives are achieved
- Drive effective communication between stakeholders and provide regular project updates and progress reports
- Lead project teams, ensuring clear direction, accountability, and high performance throughout the project lifecycle
- Maintain strong client relationships and ensure a positive customer experience from start to finish
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to operational best practices across the business
- Ability to effectively coordinate with the inhouse production facility
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of project management experience within events, exhibitions, temporary structures, modular construction, or related industries
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large scale, fast track projects
- Strong commercial awareness and budget management experience
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced project environment
- Strong problem solving and decision making capabilities
- Experience working across the GCC
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Company Overview
- Founded in 2013, Maestra, part of the Arena Group, is a leading multi disciplined supplier servicing the Events, Exhibitions, and Live Experiences industry across the Middle East.
- Capabilities span Carpentry & Joinery, CNC Machining, Paint Finishing, Metalwork, Temporary Structures, and Modular Solutions.
Role Overview
- We are currently seeking an experienced Freelance Project Manager to join our team on a short term project basis.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex event, exhibition, temporary structure, and modular construction projects from inception through to completion.
What you’ll do
- Lead the full project lifecycle from planning, budgeting, procurement, and resource allocation through execution and project close out.
- Manage project programmes, timelines, budgets, deliverables, and reporting requirements.
- Coordinate with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal departments to ensure successful project delivery.
- Oversee all on site activities, ensuring compliance with quality, health, safety, and operational standards.
- Identify and mitigate project risks while proactively resolving issues that may impact delivery.
- Monitor project performance, costs, schedules, and resources to ensure commercial and operational objectives are achieved.
- Drive effective communication between stakeholders and provide regular project updates and progress reports.
- Lead project teams, ensuring clear direction, accountability, and high performance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Maintain strong client relationships and ensure a positive customer experience from start to finish.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to operational best practices across the business.
- Ability to effectively coordinate with the inhouse production facility.
What we’re looking for
- Minimum 3 years of project management experience within events, exhibitions, temporary structures, modular construction, or related industries.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large scale, fast track projects.
- Strong commercial awareness and budget management experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced project environment.
- Strong problem solving and decision making capabilities.
- Experience working across the GCC.
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