Senior Manager - Delivery - 20004745 CDU8

The Senior Manager will lead, inspire and drive the safe and timely delivery of the Vertical Links Project. This includes championing health, safety, and security, demonstrating Qiddiya values, and ensuring project schedules, budgets, and resources are effectively managed in collaboration with discipline leads, contractors, consultants and stakeholders. The role will drive scope completion to agreed timeframes and budgets, proactively resolve risks and roadblocks, and maintain strong stakeholder engagement. The position will oversee scope management, constructability, contract alignment, change control, and cross‑functional coordination. It includes supporting procurement and commercial teams and implementing best practice project management processes. By aligning delivery with Qiddiya’s and TBU strategic objectives, the Senior Manager will ensure the project work is completed to the highest standards of safety, quality, and performance.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Drive and lead the health, safety, wellbeing and security culture on the project, empowering the team to operate in line with QIC policies, procedures and TBU objectives.
• Conduct safety investigations, inspections and audits.
• Ensure the TBU Customer Experience strategies are understood, and a ‘Customer‑first’ approach is integrated into all aspects of project planning, decision‑making, and delivery.
• Demonstrate and role‑model leadership behaviors in line with Qiddiya values.
• Motivate and inspire a high‑performance culture through clear direction, providing continuous feedback, recognising and rewarding exceptional performance and fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation and accountability.
• Provide visible and inclusive leadership, ensuring effective succession planning, exploring recruitment and retention strategies, and offering mentoring to both direct reports and the broader TBU.
• Collaborate with other directors, discipline leads and internal stakeholders and be accountable for the development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of project execution across all functional areas during delivery.
• Prepare and present strategies (procurement, constructability, logistics, interface, etc.) to QIC governance and control committees as required.
• Ensure that project delivery plans, covering all aspects of project preparation, execution, and close‑out, are robust, agreed upon, communicated to the team, implemented, and routinely reviewed for suitability.
• Identify and assess risks and opportunities, develop and apply appropriate mitigation strategies, and manage them through monthly reviews to confirm their continued validity and the effectiveness of planned mitigations, as well as to capture any newly emerging risks.
• Manage project delivery by ensuring robust, collaborative and proactive communication with contractors, consultants and key on‑site interfaces, supporting the successful completion of the scope in line with time, cost, HS&EE, quality assurance and other performance objectives.
• Manage all changes related to the delivery of the scope through the defined TBU change management process, including early identification and communication to the line manager.
• Implement and maintain project management processes, tools and best practices to ensure transparency, information accuracy, standardisation, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the procurement process by selecting appropriate contract models, developing comprehensive scopes of work, facilitating effective market engagement, and conducting rigorous reviews to ensure the engagement of suitable contractors and consultants.
• Support and work effectively with the commercial team to ensure contractual compliance and cost control is maintained to the highest level.
• Lead a broad range of project activities, including meetings, risk and opportunity sessions, value engineering, design reviews, site inspections, consultant and contractor evaluations, documentation reviews, training, executive reporting, contract and claims negotiations, public outreach and other assigned tasks.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, regulations and best practices to continuously enhance project delivery.
• Conduct post‑project reviews and retrospectives to capture lessons learned and identify opportunities for improvement, contributing to QIC’s continuous learning and organisational development.

Qualifications

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