About Four Seasons:Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.About the location: Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the companys commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.The Role of Director, IT New Openings:We currently have an opportunity for a Director, IT New Openings EMEA, to join our Four Seasons Corporate team in Dubai!This role reports to the Vice President, IT New Openings as the Senior IT project leader you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of technology services and delivery to developers and property operations teams during the design, implementation, and handover phases across a portfolio of projects.The Director is the Four Seasons technology leader and representative building and maintaining successful relationships with developers, property leadership teams, designers, vendors/contractors, and corporate departments. The property leader oversees all technical design reviews and approvals for all drawings and specifications.The Director will typically oversee between 8 to 12 active projects each requiring a customized and dynamic approach to meet the local and regional needs of the project. This includes residential, hotels, resorts, urban, resort, expansion, and renovation types of projects.Our Ideal Director, IT New Openings candidate will have:University degree in technology or engineering with over seven years experience managing IT projects in areas such as technology construction / technology management - all with a focus on hospitality, residential and large mixed-use facilities.The project leader is a skilled communicator, expert negotiator and exceptionally organized with a proven track record in procurement, design & construction, and project management. The Director understands complex technical problems and orchestrates people and processes towards achievable and logical solutions.The project leader is a successful and motivational people leader. As the ambassador of Four Seasons across many New Openings, the Director mentors, manages and supervises multiple local property teams throughout their unique and customized pre-opening journey. The Director has a deep understanding of Four Seasons technology and is a champion as to how it is to be enabled to ensure successful Four Seasons service delivery. The Director takes a proactive role in identifying risks.The Director has technical expertise and construction experience in areas such as active and passive cabling, security & surveillance systems, audio-visual systems, wired and wireless communications, networking, Wi-Fi and software. They also have direct responsibility for Department initiatives such as Design Standards, vendor and product analysis and process improvements. Frequent travel of varying durations (up to 40%)Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts can offer what many hospitality professionals dream of; the opportunity to build a life-long career with global potential and a real sense of pride in work well done. We look for talent who share the Golden Rule - people who, by nature, believe in treating others as we would have them treat us. As Four Seasons works towards phenomenal growth in the next decade, our most valuable partners continue to be our talent, with whom we have a strong relationship based on the Golden Rule. This relationship is made tangible by the awards received year after year by Four Seasons on a corporate level, as well as by our hotels, resorts, and residences around the world, making us an undisputed employer of choice.

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