Technical Director Masterplanning, Urban Planning & Strategic Planning
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Lead technical delivery and strategic planning for large-scale urban projects, mentoring teams while engaging with stakeholders and ensuring design excellence.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the technical delivery of complex masterplanning, urban planning, and strategic planning projects
- Provide high level design and planning direction on large scale developments
- Ensure design excellence, innovation, and compliance with international best practice and local regulations
- Lead and oversee planning strategies for regional development programmes and multi city planning initiatives
- Engage with national and regional authorities on long term spatial planning policies
- Act as senior representative in engagements with clients, government bodies, and developers
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary planning team
- Contribute to business development activities including proposals and bids
Requirements
- Proven track record in senior leadership roles within urban planning, masterplanning, or strategic planning consultancies
- Extensive experience delivering large scale regional and national planning projects
- Strong technical background in masterplanning and urban design
- Demonstrated experience working with government authorities and major stakeholders
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Experience working in the Middle East is highly desirable
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Role Overview
- A leading multidisciplinary consultancy is seeking a highly experienced Technical Director to lead its Masterplanning, Urban Planning, and Strategic Planning team in Riyadh.
- This is a senior leadership role that combines deep technical expertise with strong managerial capability.
- The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping large scale regional and national planning initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical delivery of complex masterplanning, urban planning, and strategic planning projects.
- Provide high level design and planning direction on large scale developments including regional plans, urban expansion strategies, and national spatial frameworks.
- Ensure design excellence, innovation, and compliance with international best practice and local planning regulations.
- Actively contribute to key design decisions and review outputs across multiple projects.
- Lead and oversee planning strategies for regional development programmes and multi city planning initiatives.
- Engage with national and regional authorities on long term spatial planning policies and frameworks.
- Translate government visions and development goals into actionable planning strategies.
- Support the consultancy's involvement in giga projects and national transformation programmes.
- Act as a senior representative of the consultancy in engagements with clients, government bodies, developers, and subconsultants.
- Lead high level presentations, workshops, and design review sessions with key stakeholders.
- Manage relationships across complex stakeholder environments.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary planning team.
Key Requirements
- Proven track record in senior leadership roles within urban planning, masterplanning, or strategic planning consultancies.
- Extensive experience delivering large scale regional and national planning projects, including multi city or cross jurisdictional frameworks.
- Strong technical background in masterplanning and urban design, with continued hands on involvement in design and planning decisions.
- Demonstrated experience working with government authorities, ministries, and major institutional stakeholders.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills, with experience mentoring senior professionals.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience working in the Middle East (or similar large scale development contexts) is highly desirable.
Personal Attributes
- Strategic thinker with strong technical grounding
- Confident decision maker with design sensitivity
- Collaborative and politically astute stakeholder manager
- Passionate about shaping cities and regions at scale
- Inspiring leader and mentor
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