
Red Sea Global
Manager ā Operations Readiness Projects
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 08/01/2026
Job overview
Date posted
24/11/2025
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
08/01/2026
Job description
The Manager ā Operations Readiness Projects supports the Director of Operational Readiness in ensuring world-class mobility operations through integrated project programming, operational readiness planning, standards compliance, risk management, and performance tracking across Red Sea Globalās mobility operations. The role spans pre-opening and operational phases and requires developing detailed integrated mobility programs, ensuring milestones and dependencies are captured, defining logic sequencing and critical paths, and maintaining deliverable lists. Responsibilities include weekly progress monitoring with internal and external stakeholders, maintaining and updating trackers, preparing weekly reports in collaboration with Senior Ops Readiness Specialists, attending senior management progress meetings, updating risk registers, supporting standards delivery, document control, compliance audits, SLA and KPI development, management reporting, and project management support during tendering, contract award, and mobilization. Additional operational duties include developing and managing trackers and reporting systems, providing business planning and budgeting inputs, validating operations, maintenance, and contractual KPIs/SLAs, maintaining operations excellence policies, and managing mobility risks. The role requires use of MS Project or P6, Power BI dashboards, high-quality report and presentation development, and experience in high-pressure environments and working with government stakeholders, mobility O&M environments, and integrated complex workstreams.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Develop detailed integrated mobility programs with milestones, activities, logic sequencing, interdependencies, and critical path identified
- Create and maintain project deliverables lists across phases and ensure alignment with project objectives and deadlines
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to keep programs updated and brief operations teams weekly or bi-weekly
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly management reports and produce presentations as requested
- Develop and manage Power BI dashboards for progress and performance reporting
- Update and manage progress trackers, issues trackers, and risk registers for assigned functions
- Provide project management support during tendering, contract award, and mobilization activities
- Identify risks, issues, and challenges and escalate to the associate mobility projects director
- Ensure compliance with workplace safety standards across operations readiness activities
- Manage trackers, reporting systems, and PMO activities including validation of operations, maintenance, and contractual KPIs/SLAs
- Provide business planning and budgeting inputs and review operations excellence policies for compliance and governance alignment
- Manage mobility risks and develop associated mitigation and risk management plans
Experience & skills
- Bachelorās degree in a science-based subject with PMP/APM/PMI advantageous
- 8 years of project management, PMO, or project controls experience, preferably in a consulting environment
- Experience using MS Project, P6, or similar planning tools
- Experience producing high-quality reports and presentations
- Background in operations and maintenance environments for major transport projects is desirable
- Proven ability to work in high-pressure environments and with government stakeholders
- Strong communication skills for engagement from managerial levels to large workforce teams
- Experience managing complex integrated project workstreams
- Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional business partners