Senior Project Manager

Description

Join Qiddiya Investment Company as a Senior Project Manager (Delivery) - Racecourse and play a critical role in delivering a world-class racecourse as part of Saudi Arabia’s premier entertainment destination. You will lead the end-to-end project delivery process, ensuring timelines, quality standards, and budget objectives are met while coordinating closely with design, construction, and stakeholder teams.

Key responsibilities

Lead and manage the delivery of the racecourse project from inception through to completion, ensuring adherence to scope, quality, and budget.

The role is essential to ensure that each individual asset is delivered with clear accountability, coherent decision making and active risk management within the wider Racetrack programme. It provides focused QIC ownership at asset level, preventing asset specific requirements, interfaces and risks from being diluted or lost within programme wide delivery under MC model.

Single point of accountability for successful delivery of the Racetrack assets, aligned to the overall programme objectives.

Early pre-construction responsibilities:

Owns the asset specific brief, success criteria and performance requirements

Manages asset level interfaces with adjacent assets and shared infrastructure

Chairs asset level governance forums (design, commercial, package co-ordination)

Oversees management contractor performance at asset level

Confirms asset phasing, priorities and early works requirements

Owns the asset risk register and escalates programme critical risks

Reviews package scopes, boundaries and performance requirements

Reviews MC buildability input and challenges assumptions that impact scope, quality or risk

Supports tender evaluation through technical, programme and delivery risk input

Owns package specific technical risks and supports controlled change from a scope and design perspective

Requirements

BSc Construction Management, Project Management, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Minimum 12 years of experience in project management within large-scale sports and entertainment venue developments, preferably on a racecourse project

Proven track record managing complex delivery projects in the construction industry

Strong leadership and team management skills

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities

Familiarity with project management tools such as Primavera or MS Project

Professional certifications such as PMP or equivalent are preferred