Project Manager, Bank Programmes

Own the plan for each programme: milestones, dependencies, decisions and risks, in one place people actually use

Own the relationship: be the person the bank calls first

Run the weekly rhythm with bank counterparties: working groups, steercos, minutes, and actions that close

Get into the detail when things slip, and stay with it until it moves

Spot expansion inside live programmes and turn it into scoped follow-on work

Manage approval-linked milestones and go-live gates with our compliance team

Surface risk early and arrive with options

One programme plan and weekly cadence live and adopted by every counterparty

The first bank milestone you inherit delivered on its date

A RAID log both sides trust more than their inbox

You have at least 6 years in project or programme management, including at least 4 years delivering with banks or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia

You have held senior client relationships and grown an account, not just administered a plan

You are proactive to the point of hands-on, and when a workstream stalls you get into the detail and move it, whatever the org chart says

You bring people with you, and internal and client teams follow your cadence because it works, not because it is mandated

You understand core systems, APIs and integration delivery well enough to test an estimate and spot slippage a month before it lands

Arabic is a must, and fluent English is strongly preferred

You are based in Jeddah or ready to relocate

Delivery experience with banks elsewhere in the GCC

Open banking, lending or payments domain experience

Relationships inside GCC banks that you built and kept

You are fluent with AI tooling and current on what the latest LLMs can and cannot do, using them to run programmes faster while knowing when output needs a human pass

Experience taking a regulated product through go-live with SAMA or CBB supervised institutions