Project Management Lead - Film Studio (SPA5-50012959)

Location: Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia

Department: Qiddiya OpCos

Workplace: on_site

Description

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