Stakeholder Manager

Job Description

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We are looking for a Stakeholder Manager (KSA National) for our Project & Development Services business line.

About JLL

We’re JLL. We’re a professional service and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. Our mission is to help organizations around the world achieve their ambitions by owning, occupying, and investing in real estate.

If you’re looking to step up your career, JLL is the perfect professional home. At JLL, you’ll have a chance to innovate with the world’s leading businesses, put that expertise into action on landmark projects, and work on game-changing real estate initiatives. You’ll also make long-lasting professional connections through sharing different perspectives, and you’ll be inspired by the best. We’re focused on opportunity and want to help you make the most of yours. Join us at JLL!

About Project and Development Services (PDS)
 

JLL is a world class real estate development partner for our investor and corporate clients. Our services affect how millions of people live, work, and play every day. It is our responsibility to nurture the impact we can have on all projects and bring value into every detail. From development advisory to project and cost management, from program management to engineering design and sustainability, from fit-out to asset repositioning and major base-build schemes, our services span every dimension across all asset types, sectors and regions.

JLL’s PDS team comprises 8,900 project managers, engineers, designers and architects across 50 countries and is actively managing 36,900+ projects yearly. Join the PDS team to expect more and achieve more. There’s room for you to design and build your career within the PDS community and the wider JLL ecosystem.

Role Purpose

We are looking for a Stakeholder Manager (KSA National) for our P&DS team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role will be working in Riyadh on a major program. The focus will be interfacing with multiple project stakeholders as part of our large teams.

What this job involves

• Manage engagement with project stakeholders across local authorities, statutory and non-statutory bodies, industry & business, land & property, communities and other parties to establish strong working relationships.
• Manage stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders and respond to stakeholder inquiries.
• Manage stakeholder engagement coordinators, providing guidance and directing their workload activities to ensure timescales and requirements are met.
• Work collaboratively with other members of the project team, the PMO (project management office).
• Preparation of reports and strategies as they relate to Stakeholder management.
• Provide input into the weekly and Monthly reports.
• Prepare client and other presentations and present these to the required audience.
• Prepare and review stakeholder management plans and flow charts.
• Act as the focal point for all stakeholder-related matters.
• Manage contractors and Consultants and assist in them obtaining the required permits.
• Lead stakeholder meetings and issue minutes of meetings and close out actions arising.
• Prepare and issue reports as required from time to time.
• Provide briefings and support to technical teams for meetings with stakeholders.
• Arrange and attend stakeholder meetings with technical team members and ensure feedback of stakeholder responses and requests to technical teams are responded to within agreed timescales.
• Prepare and manage workshops, roundtables, and forum logistics including developing agendas, project plans, minute taking, and production of reports.
• Ensure an accurate audit trail is maintained of all stakeholder engagement and all contact/activities are recorded on the stakeholder database.
• Attend client-facing meetings and collaborative planning workshops, while reporting to clients on progress.
• Provide input into weekly/monthly reports for PMO and Project Board.
• Attend Stakeholder Engagement Working Group and expedite actions arising.

Sounds like you? To apply you need to be/have

• Significant experience in managing engagement with multiple stakeholders on major high-profile construction programs.
• A clear understanding of issues pertaining to project development.
• Proven ability to work and multi-task under pressure, respond quickly to changing situations in complex project environments, prepare responses/narratives quickly and clearly and use personal initiative.
• Good interpersonal and networking skills, and highly articulate team player.
• Strong project management and people management skills.
• Familiarity with using various CRM systems essential.
• Broader project communications experience and skills.
• Excellent written and verbal skills with a fluent proficiency in English and native Arabic (KSA National).

What you can expect from us

You’ll join an entrepreneurial, inclusive culture. One where we succeed together – across the desk and around the globe. Where like-minded people work naturally together to achieve great things.

Our Total Rewards program reflects our commitment to helping you achieve your ambitions in career, recognition, well-being, benefits and pay.

Join us to develop your strengths and enjoy a fulfilling career full of varied experiences. Keep those ambitions in sights and imagine where JLL can take you…

Location:

On-site –Riyadh, SAU

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

About JLL –

For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communitiesSEE A BRIGHTER WAY. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visitjll.com.

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