Summary
Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Project Management Lead for its Film Studio asset in Riyadh. The role coordinates strategic initiatives, PMO governance, milestones, risks, leadership actions, and cross-functional work, while preparing executive reports and decision-support materials. The successful candidate will have 7–10 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in a related field; an MBA, master’s degree, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification is preferred. Experience with senior stakeholders and complex programmes is required or preferred, depending on the area of experience.
The posting
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Role Purpose
Serve as the strategic coordination and project management focal point for the Film Studio asset, enabling the General Manager to maintain a single, decision-ready view of executive priorities, strategic initiatives, risks, milestones, and cross-functional actions. The role is responsible for establishing disciplined PMO routines, coordinating leadership requests, tracking implementation progress, and ensuring high-quality reporting and decision support across activation and steady-state operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide end-to-end oversight of strategic initiatives, executive priorities, and cross-functional projects across the Film Studio asset.
- Manage the General Manager’s strategic agenda, leadership priorities, action trackers, decision logs, and executive follow-ups.
- Establish PMO governance routines, project reporting standards, milestone tracking, and escalation mechanisms.
- Track project risks, dependencies, issues, decisions, and corrective actions across operational, commercial, financial, and corporate workstreams.
- Act as the primary coordination interface between the General Manager, functional teams, shared service stakeholders, consultants, and external parties.
- Coordinate strategic requests from senior leadership and external stakeholders, ensuring timely responses, ownership assignment, and progress visibility.
- Prepare executive reports, dashboards, briefing notes, presentations, and decision-support materials for leadership review.
- Support strategic planning, business transformation, activation readiness, and operating model implementation initiatives.
- Review and challenge outputs from teams, consultants, and vendors to ensure they are structured, accurate, and decision-ready.
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment meetings, governance forums, and performance review routines.
- Monitor implementation progress against approved plans, budgets, timelines, and priority outcomes.
- Identify bottlenecks, unresolved dependencies, and emerging risks requiring leadership intervention.
- Maintain centralized records of key initiatives, actions, approvals, and management decisions.
- Support preparation for board, committee, steering, and executive update meetings where required.
- Drive continuous improvement in planning discipline, reporting quality, and cross-functional execution effectiveness.
KPIs
- Timeliness of executive reports and dashboards
- Milestone achievement rate for strategic initiatives
- Closure rate of leadership actions and decisions
- Accuracy and completeness of risk, issue, and dependency tracking
- Quality of decision-support materials
- Stakeholder satisfaction with PMO coordination
- Reduction in overdue actions and unresolved escalations
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Economics, Project Management, or related field.
- MBA, Master’s degree, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification preferred.
Experience
- 7–10 years of experience in corporate strategy, PMO, project management, transformation, management consulting, or executive office roles.
- Experience managing complex cross-functional programmes and senior stakeholder interactions.
- Experience working with executive leadership, C-suite stakeholders, or senior government and corporate interfaces preferred.
Preferred Background
- Management consulting, corporate strategy, PMO, transformation office, entertainment, destination, real estate, or asset activation environments.
- Experience supporting new asset activation, operating model implementation, or strategic programme delivery preferred.
Technical & Functional Expectations
- Strong PMO, project governance, and executive reporting capability.
- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear leadership insights and recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder management, structured problem solving, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work with discretion, urgency, and high attention to detail in a senior leadership environment.
Key Competencies
- Project governance
- Strategic coordination
- Executive communication
- Stakeholder management
- Structured problem solving
- Risk and issue management
- Decision support