Commercial Project Director

Overview

Role: Commercial Project Director

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Hybrid

Role ID: 2024-2585

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Role Purpose

To lead commercial operations and oversee successful project delivery for Ricardo’s Clean Energy & Environmental Solution initiatives within the Middle East. This role involves senior client relationship management, risk assessment, and commercial oversight to ensure projects meet required standards, are delivered on time, and achieve targeted financial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee regional projects with a focus on scope, budget, and quality, ensuring commercial and financial objectives are met.
• Collaborate with project and technical leaders to implement proactive risk mitigation strategies and ensure project success.
• Manage client relationships to align project expectations, address issues proactively, and uphold company reputation.
• Provide commercial and financial guidance to technical leaders, ensuring projects meet quality, time, cost, and profitability targets.
• Ensure all project activities comply with EHS and ESG standards and that deliverables meet quality assurance requirements.
• Identify business expansion opportunities, strengthening partnerships and alliances with key clients.
• Lead resourcing and team collaboration efforts to support effective project delivery and regional growth.
  
  

Key Competencies And Experience

• Regular domestic and international travel required.
• Extensive experience in commercial project delivery within the Middle East, with expertise in financial oversight, budgeting, and risk management in consulting.
• Proficient in business performance reporting, budgetary, and financial processes.
• Skilled in overseeing complex projects with a focus on commercial objectives, client needs, and regulatory standards.
• Strong commercial awareness and strategic mindset.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experienced in proactive risk and challenge management, with a background in using business systems to analyze data for informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
  
  

Desirable Competencies And Experience

• Arabic language skills are highly desirable.
• Experience of working in a complex / matrix global organization.
• Familiarity with leveraging digital and technical solutions to enhance service offerings.
  
  

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via [email protected] if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.