Senior Manager - Destination Operations Planning

1. Job Title:
Senior Manager - Destination Operations Planning

2. Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced and highly versatile Senior Project Manager with robust expertise to join our Mobility Team.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead and coordinate complex, and often multi modular business projects, ultimately support the Mobility business define, acquire and set up systems needed to support their operations, along with the required reporting that will flow from the data.This role will require excellent stakeholder management to assist both the business, and the departments involved: Technology, Procurement and Finance.This is a great opportunity to shape scalable systems and processes in a growing organization.

This role requires a proactive leader with a systems-thinking mindset and a proven ability to bridge technical and business disciplines to deliver strategic initiatives successfully.

This role is key to create a robust operating platform, to enable to business to drive profitability and efficiency.

This is a senior position for an analytical thinker with a keen financial acumen, excellent communication skills, and proven experience in managing cross-functional activities.

3. Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Drive end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of multi-modular projects across multiple departments and stakeholders.
• Manage timelines, budgets, resources, and scope while ensuring alignment with strategic business goals.
• Lead cross-functional teams, ensuring cohesive collaboration between business, technology, procurement, and finance workstreams.
• Lead the coordination of the development of the business requirement and processes with the business to drive the business requirements, which in turn drive the selection, implementation, and set up of business systems and process to deliver a robust operational tool that is fit for purpose.
• Gather, document, and prioritize business needs from stakeholders across modules.
• Translate business requirements into actionable plans and coordinate cross-functional implementation.
• Identify and understand business challenges; propose and create solutions.
• Prepare and collate accurate reporting for senior management relating to aspects of business performance.
• Work closely with technical leads and solution architects to ensure appropriate systems design, development, integration, and testing.
• Ensure that technical deliverables align with the business needs and security/compliance standards.
• Oversee the procurement lifecycle related to the project (e.g., vendor evaluation, RFP/RFQ processes, contract negotiation).
• Collaborate with procurement teams to ensure timely acquisition of goods/services within budget.
• Collaborate with accounting and finance teams to ensure appropriate data flows, cost tracking, and financial reporting.
• Ensure project activities align with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and financial audit standards.
• Drive data accuracy, reconciliation, and integrity across systems and modules.
• Proactively identify risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Maintain documentation and communication of risks, decisions, and resolutions across stakeholders.
• Maintain clear, consistent communication with project sponsors, leadership, and key stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates on project status, KPIs, financial performance, and strategic alignment.
• Carry out additional tasks and responsibilities as directed from time to time.
• Follow all relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions to ensure that work that will be delivered from operations and the systems is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Ensure adherence to internal financial policies, procedures, and controls to safeguard the organization’s assets.
• Conduct periodic reviews and testing to assess the effectiveness of the reporting and any required financial controls to ensure the accuracy of the system output and reporting.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of the department’s systems, processes and practices considering ‘international best practice’, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
• Mentor colleagues and be a role model for continuous improvement in skills and performance.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and efficiency within the Mobility department and across other business functions.
• Collaborate with other departments (e.g., procurement, HR and operations) to ensure financial alignment with organizational objectives.
• Communicate financial results and key performance indicators (KPIs) to stakeholders, both internally and externally, in a clear and concise manner.

4. Education Level:
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Accounting, Engineering or related field.

5. Years of Experience:
Minimum 10+ years of project management experience in complex, cross-functional business environments.

6. Country:
Saudi Arabia

7. City:
Riyadh

8. Apply Before:
None