CURRICULUM VITAE · HAURA ZAHID

Thirteen years of project experience. One signature.

Senior project manager with over 13 years of international project experience in construction, fit-out and infrastructure — from pharma, logistics and finance to tech, retail and industry. Proven success delivering programmes for Goldman Sachs, Lonza, Amazon, IBM, Novartis and Credit Suisse.

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OFFICELoretostrasse 1, 6300 Zug

E-MAILoffice@zahidprojects.com

PHONE+41 76 762 94 83

BORN21.09.1986 · German

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project & Programme ManagementOverall project responsibility · AHO / SIA 31–53 · multi-site rollouts
Stakeholder ManagementClients, general contractors & authorities at executive level
Cost & Contract ManagementBudget responsibility · tendering · change management · savings advisory
Schedule ManagementOverall programme planning · fast-track delivery · critical path
Quality & Risk ManagementQA systems · risk register · SIA compliance · LSO training
Team Leadership & ResourcesInterdisciplinary teams · programme leadership at director level

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2026 — present · Zug

Founder & Managing Director

Zahid Projects

Own project development practice for demanding building projects
- Owner's representation, architecture, interior & project development — from the first sketch to handover
- Four service fields available individually or as an integrated overall mandate
- International network: developers, investors, agents and specialists

2025 — present · Zurich

Senior Project Manager (in-house)

Hilti Schweiz AG

Operation Logistik Center Urdorf< CHF 49M
- In-house overall project responsibility for the new Hilti logistics centre
- Full SIA 31–53 phase management: quality, schedule, cost, risk
- Monthly board-level reporting; direct interface with Hilti executives

2023 — 2025 · Zurich

Senior Project & Programme Manager

Turner & Townsend

Goldman Sachs — Office Refurbishment & ExtensionBahnhofstrasse 3 · < CHF 20M · 2024 — 2025
- Senior PM for high-end office refurbishment in Zurich's financial district
- Full SIA 31–53 phases completed; interdisciplinary team coordination and reporting
Credit Suisse / UBS — 15 parallel major projects worldwideup to CHF 10M each · 2023 — 2024
- Programme management of 15 parallel projects worldwide as part of the CS/UBS merger
- Coordination of project teams, quality management and cost optimisation advisory

2022 — 2023 · Visp

Senior Project Manager

DPS Group Global

Lonza — GMP Laboratory New-Build< CHF 200M
- Independent project management for a large pharmaceutical laboratory in Visp
- Change management, construction supervision and LSO team-training coordination

2019 — 2022 · DE & Europe

Senior Project Manager / Programme Director

AECOM

IBM — Data Center New-Build & MigrationEhningen HQ · 2021 — 2022
- AHO phases 1–3: parallel management of new-build and critical IT infrastructure migration
Amazon Music — Flagship Berlinworldwide 2nd location after New York · 2021 — 2022
- AHO phases 1–5: time-critical premium fit-out with high security requirements
Amazon — Fast-Track RefurbishmentHamburg · 2021
- Short-notice, cost- and time-critical refurbishment with fast-track delivery
Rolande LNG — Multi-Site Rollout LNG Filling StationsGermany · 2020 — 2021
- Director-level programme management: nationwide rollout of LNG filling stations
- Steering and performance appraisal of a project manager team
Amazon — European RolloutDE · LUX · ES · UK · director level · 2020 — 2021
- Led the pitch presentation and coordinated all European AECOM offices
Siemens SRE — Siemensstadt HeadquartersBerlin · heritage-listed · 2019 — 2021
- Multi-stage refurbishment of a heritage-listed building
P3 Logistics — Logistics Centre New-BuildKamen · 2019 — 2020
- AHO phases 4–5: detailed design and construction supervision for a large-scale logistics centre

2018 — 2019

Senior Project Manager

Consulting mandate

LinkedIn — Office Redesign & ExtensionMunich · 2018 — 2019
- Full AHO 1–5 refurbishment; relocation of all staff
- New kitchen, meeting rooms and complete redesign; tendering and procurement
Novartis — 60,000 m² Office RefurbishmentBasel Campus · 2018 — 2019
- Refurbishment of two buildings on the Novartis Campus
- Multi-stakeholder coordination, cost management and tender responsibility

2016 — 2017

Senior Project Manager

Gebr. Heinemann GmbH

International Duty-Free Retail
- AHO 1–5: design management, construction supervision, cost and contract management

2015 — 2016

Project Manager

Tom Tailor GmbH

International Retail Rollout
- Store construction manuals, design management, tendering, construction supervision

2013 — 2015

Project Manager

SIS GmbH

Signage Planning
- Project, client and design management; construction supervision and CAD work

EDUCATION

M.Sc. Architecture Tongji University, Shanghai · China
M.Sc. Urban Planning Technical University of Berlin · Germany
B.A. Architecture HafenCity University Hamburg · Germany

LANGUAGES

GermanNative
ArabicNative
EnglishFluent (C1+)
Mandarin · Spanish · FrenchBasic

IT SKILLS

Project ManagementMS Project · Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Design & VisualisationArchiCAD · Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign