General Manager | Operations & Growth | Design-Build Projects
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About the Role
Oversee operations, improve project delivery and financial discipline, manage teams, and enhance commercial growth with strong leadership and execution focus.
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Key Responsibilities
- Oversee daily company operations across departments
- Build weekly operating rhythm and management cadence
- Improve internal accountability and reporting
- Monitor priorities and execution across teams
Project Delivery
- Track live projects, deadlines, budgets, risks, client satisfaction
- Improve coordination between technical, commercial, procurement, and site teams
- Reduce delays and leakage
Commercial Growth
- Strengthen lead conversion process
- Support partnerships and new revenue opportunities
- Improve proposal quality, pricing discipline, and pipeline visibility
Financial Discipline
- Improve budgeting visibility
- Manage cash flow coordination with finance team
- Track profitability by project / business line
- Improve collections discipline
Team Leadership
- Manage department heads
- Recruit strong talent where required
- Build performance culture
- Introduce KPI systems that actually work
- What Success in First 6 Months Looks Like
- Better management control
- Clear reporting structure
- Improved collections / visibility
- Stronger delivery discipline
- Founder time freed for growth
- Higher profitability control
- Better hiring decisions
- 10+ years experience in operations, contracting, fit-out, landscaping, facilities, development, or project-based businesses
- Strong commercial instinct
- Comfortable in founder-led entrepreneurial environments
- Hands-on, practical, execution-focused
- Strong Arabic and English preferred
- Experience managing multi-function teams
- Can build order from chaos without bureaucracy
Strong Advantage If Candidate Has Experience In
- Riyadh market relationships
- Construction / fit-out / premium residential / hospitality projects
- SME growth-stage companies
- P&L ownership
- KPI implementation
- Cash flow management
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