Senior Project Manager

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• · Own end-to-end delivery of complex software development, systems integration, digital transformation, and IT services projects.
• · Establish and maintain the project governance framework, ensuring compliance with delivery methodology, stage gates, quality controls, and change management processes.
• · Develop and manage integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, quality, and acceptance criteria.
• · Maintain comprehensive RAID and decision logs, ensuring timely mitigation, escalation, and resolution of project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• · Lead project-level financial and commercial management, including budget tracking, resource utilization, revenue and cost awareness, milestone acceptance, and identification of contractual exposure.
• · Enforce formal change control and ensure additional customer requirements are assessed, estimated, approved, and commercially addressed before execution.
• · Manage cross-functional teams comprising software engineering, quality assurance, DevOps, architecture, business analysis, UX/UI, infrastructure, security, and third-party vendors.
• · Provide leadership and direction to Project Managers, workstream leads, technical leads, and delivery team members where applicable.
• · Apply appropriate SDLC and delivery methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches, according to project and contractual requirements.
• · Ensure appropriate application of CI/CD, release management, configuration management, testing, and production deployment practices.
• · Lead customer governance meetings, executive reviews, SteerCo presentations, status reporting, and escalation discussions.
• · Translate complex technical and delivery information into clear, concise, and decision-ready communication for executive stakeholders.
• · Manage customer expectations, maintain strong working relationships, and drive timely decisions, approvals, and deliverable acceptance.
• · Coordinate resource planning with PMO, Operations, Engineering, and supporting functions, proactively addressing capacity gaps and delivery constraints.
• · Ensure project documentation, customer approvals, acceptance records, and contractual evidence are complete and properly maintained.
• · Drive project recovery plans when delivery deviates from agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, or customer expectations.
• · Support project closure, operational handover, lessons learned, and realization of agreed delivery outcomes.
• · Contribute to continuous improvement of PMO standards, delivery processes, templates, tools, metrics, and governance practices.
• · Support pre-sales and commercial teams when required by contributing to delivery approaches, estimates, assumptions, risks, resource plans, and transition strategies.

Education

Professional Experience

Technical & Delivery Knowledge

Certifications

Skills & Competencies

• · Strong leadership with hands-on ownership of delivery outcomes.
• · Excellent stakeholder management and customer relationship skills.
• · Executive-level communication and presentation capabilities.
• · Professional fluency in English; Arabic communication capability is strongly preferred.
• · Strong commercial awareness and ability to identify contractual or financial exposure before it materializes.
• · Ability to challenge unrealistic expectations professionally and protect approved project scope.
• · Structured problem-solving, negotiation, decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills.
• · Ability to work effectively under pressure and lead recovery of complex or challenged projects.
• · Strong attention to delivery evidence, governance discipline, and contractual documentation.
• · Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence technical teams, business stakeholders, customers, and senior management.

Work Requirements

• · Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• · Availability: Maximum one-month notice period.
• · The role may require on-site customer engagement and travel within Saudi Arabia based on project requirements.