Delivery Assurance Manager

• Provide independent assurance on project delivery performance, validating whether projects will achieve completion on time and within approved cost to complete. • Review project schedules, progress updates, recovery plans, and cost forecasts against evidence rather than reported status. • Lead stage gate reviews and delivery assurance assessments across assigned projects. • Validate project baselines, critical path activities, float consumption, resource loading, and schedule impacts. • Embed within underperforming or high-risk projects to drive recovery planning, monitor actions, and stabilize delivery performance. • Identify root causes of delays, disruptions, and cost overruns, ensuring risks are escalated with supporting evidence. • Hold Project Directors, COOs, contractors, and key stakeholders accountable for agreed actions, milestones, and commitments. • Escalate delivery, governance, delegation of authority, and approval-related issues to leadership in a timely manner. • Represent the EPMO in project reviews, governance forums, and executive delivery meetings. • Support the development of standardized delivery assurance methodologies, governance processes, and lessons learned. • Utilize AI tools to analyze schedules, project reports, site updates, and correspondence to identify delivery risks, recurring issues, and emerging project concerns. • Drive data-driven decision-making by ensuring a single source of truth for delivery performance reporting across the portfolio. • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline. • 10-15 years of experience in major construction, infrastructure, PMO, project controls, delivery assurance, or project delivery roles. • Strong experience working with main contractors, EPC contractors, PMC organizations, or client-side project delivery teams. • Proven track record of successfully recovering delayed or underperforming projects and leading turnaround initiatives. • Advanced understanding of construction project lifecycles, including design, procurement, construction, testing & commissioning, handover, and defects liability. • Proficient in Primavera P6 or equivalent scheduling software with the ability to assess critical path, float erosion, and schedule risks. • Strong understanding of project controls, planning, progress measurement, risk management, cost forecasting, and governance frameworks. • Experience managing senior stakeholders, including Project Directors, COOs, CEOs, and executive leadership teams. • Experience within the GCC or wider MENA region is highly preferred. • Demonstrated practical use of AI tools to improve project controls, schedule analysis, reporting, risk identification, root cause analysis, or recovery planning. • Strong analytical, communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills. • Comfortable operating in challenging environments and independently challenging project status when evidence does not support reported performance.