Senior Manager - Operational Readiness - 50013213 - DA3

Qiddiya
Riyadh
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Strategic leadership","Governance","Stakeholder alignment","Coaching","Continuous improvement"]

Lead operational readiness across major assets and programmes, setting readiness strategy, governance, standards, assurance methods, and activation decision gates. Drive integrated readiness planning across people, process, technology, facilities, safety, security, and regulatory workstreams. Oversee milestones, interdependencies, risks, and evidence-based readiness status; chair reviews and rehearsals; and ensure operational requirements are embedded from design through commissioning and opening.

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Senior Manager - Operational Readiness - 50013213 - DA3

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Job Summary

Lead operational readiness across major assets and programmes, setting readiness strategy, governance, standards, assurance methods, and activation decision gates. Drive integrated readiness planning across people, process, technology, facilities, safety, security, and regulatory workstreams. Oversee milestones, interdependencies, risks, and evidence-based readiness status; chair reviews and rehearsals; and ensure operational requirements are embedded from design through commissioning and opening.
Location: Riyadh
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define operational readiness strategy, governance, standards, assurance methodology, and activation decision gates for assigned portfolios.
  • •Lead integrated readiness planning across people, process, technology, facilities, safety, security, commercial, regulatory, and service workstreams.
  • •Provide senior oversight of readiness milestones, interdependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and evidence-based completion status.
  • •Ensure operational requirements are embedded across design, procurement, commissioning, handover, mobilisation, and opening plans.
  • •Chair senior readiness reviews, recommend readiness to proceed through stage gates, and lead recovery plans for critical gaps.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering, operations management, project management, or a related discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
  • •7+ years of relevant experience in operational readiness, mobilisation, project delivery, or asset activation for major or complex programmes.
  • •Experience defining operational readiness strategy, governance, assurance methodology, and activation decision gates.
  • •Capability to oversee readiness milestones, interdependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and evidence-based completion status.
  • •Ability to lead readiness reviews, inspections, rehearsals, and operational trials to recommend readiness to proceed through stage gates.
Experience:7+ years
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Strategic leadershipGovernanceStakeholder alignmentCoachingContinuous improvement
Certifications:PMPPRINCE2

Company Brief

Qiddiya
Developing Qiddiya City, a PIF-backed giga-project near Riyadh delivering theme parks, sports venues, cultural attractions, hospitality, and entertainment ecosystems to drive tourism, jobs, and economic diversification under Saudi Vision 2030.
Industry: Real Estate Development
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Government & Public Sector
Funding: Government Funded
Headquarters: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Founded: 2018
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