Executive Director - Development- Hospitality - 20004063CM5
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About the Role
Qiddiya Investment Company seeks an Executive Director to lead a portfolio of hospitality assets across the full development lifecycle. The role involves setting development strategy, managing stakeholders, and ensuring delivery of high-quality guest experiences.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic development and performance of a portfolio of hospitality assets from early stage planning through to delivery and operational readiness
- Define and drive portfolio level strategy, including asset positioning, feasibility, phasing and value creation across the portfolio
- Ensure alignment across strategy, asset management, design, delivery and operators to enable seamless progression from development through to operations
- Provide executive oversight of key decisions across the portfolio, including positioning, room mix, amenities, guest experience and operational models
- Balance portfolio wide priorities, risks and interdependencies to optimise overall value and delivery outcomes
- Lead governance, reporting and decision making processes at portfolio level, clearly articulating priorities, risks and recommendations to executive leadership
- Ensure consistency in quality, design standards and guest experience across assets, while enabling appropriate flexibility based on asset strategy
- Oversee critical validation milestones, ensuring alignment between operator requirements, design intent, commercial objectives and delivery constraints
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies and interfaces across assets and workstreams to maintain delivery momentum
- Build and lead high performing teams, embedding strong development capability and best practice approaches across the portfolio
Requirements
- Proven track record leading portfolios of complex assets (e.g. luxury hospitality, mixed use or destination developments)
- Bachelor's degree in Real Estate Development, Architecture, Engineering or related discipline
- 25+ years' experience in real estate or hospitality development
- Experience across full development lifecycle from feasibility through delivery and operational readiness
- Strong experience working with hotel operators (selection, negotiation, alignment and onboarding)
- Experience within large scale, multi stakeholder or master planned environments
- GCC experience preferred
- Strong experience leading portfolio level development strategy and asset positioning
- Deep commercial acumen with a clear understanding of value optimisation across multiple assets
- Proven ability to manage complexity across multiple stakeholders, workstreams and development stages
- Strong strategic judgement in high value, large scale development environments
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decision making through clear, structured communication
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About Qiddiya and the Role
- At Qiddiya Investment Company, we are shaping a landmark destination redefining entertainment, culture and hospitality in the Kingdom.
- The Hospitality Business Unit is developing a portfolio of hotel assets central to this vision.
- In this role, you will lead a portfolio of hospitality assets across the full development lifecycle, from concept and business case through to delivery and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic development and performance of a portfolio of hospitality assets from early stage planning through to delivery and operational readiness.
- Define and drive portfolio level strategy, including asset positioning, feasibility, phasing and value creation across the portfolio.
- Ensure alignment across strategy, asset management, design, delivery and operators to enable seamless progression from development through to operations.
- Provide executive oversight of key decisions across the portfolio, including positioning, room mix, amenities, guest experience and operational models.
- Balance portfolio wide priorities, risks and interdependencies to optimise overall value and delivery outcomes.
- Lead governance, reporting and decision making processes at portfolio level.
- Ensure consistency in quality, design standards and guest experience across assets.
- Oversee critical validation milestones, ensuring alignment between operator requirements, design intent, commercial objectives and delivery constraints.
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies and interfaces across assets and workstreams.
- Build and lead high performing teams, embedding strong development capability and best practice approaches across the portfolio.
Requirements
- Proven track record leading portfolios of complex assets (e.g. luxury hospitality, mixed use or destination developments).
- Bachelor's degree in Real Estate Development, Architecture, Engineering or related discipline.
- Professional membership or recognised certification preferred (e.g. RICS, RIBA, PMP or equivalent).
- 25+ years' experience in real estate or hospitality development.
- Experience across full development lifecycle from feasibility through delivery and operational readiness.
- Strong experience working with hotel operators (selection, negotiation, alignment and onboarding).
- Experience within large scale, multi stakeholder or master planned environments.
- GCC experience preferred.
- Strong experience leading portfolio level development strategy and asset positioning.
- Deep commercial acumen with a clear understanding of value optimisation across multiple assets.
- Proven ability to manage complexity across multiple stakeholders, workstreams and development stages.
- Strong strategic judgement in high value, large scale development environments.
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