Associate Director Programme Management

Mace; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction consultancy seeks a Senior Programme Leader in Riyadh to drive strategy and delivery for complex, multi-asset programmes. The role requires strong stakeholder management, risk management, and continuous improvement. Candidates should possess a degree in engineering or related fields, with relevant professional accreditation preferred. Join us to champion a culture of safety and excellence, enhancing client outcomes while leading high-performance teams. Flexible working options available.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in engineering, construction management, or equivalent experience.
• Proven senior leadership experience in complex programmes.
• Ability to lead high-pressure, time-critical programmes.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to shape and deliver overall strategy.
• Translate client objectives into measurable outcomes.
• Supervise management of delivery partners to ensure alignment.

Skills

Senior leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Commercial awareness

Continuous improvement

Education

Degree in engineering, construction management, or related discipline

Professional accreditation (e.g., PMP, MSP, PRINCE2)

Job description

Overview

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.

The Project

The Project Fast-paced programme in Riyadh delivering a complex, multi-asset portfolio within a fixed and highly visible timeline. The programme requires strong leadership to integrate strategy, governance, and execution across planning, design, procurement, construction, and readiness activities, ensuring coordinated delivery, robust controls, and clear accountability across all stakeholders.

Lead programme strategy, governance, and delivery execution across multiple workstreams, with a core focus on managing and integrating Delivery Partners (DPs) to ensure safe, on-time, on-budget outcomes aligned to the client’s objectives. The postholder will act as a senior client-facing leader, driving robust controls, coordinated decision-making, risk management, performance improvement, and project delivery across the programme lifecycle.

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Providing senior programme leadership to shape and deliver the overall strategy, delivery model, and implementation roadmap.
• Translating client objectives into clear programme outcomes, measurable KPIs, and integrated delivery plans across assets, enabling works, infrastructure, and operational readiness.
• Establishing a high-performance culture across delivery partners and internal teams, promoting accountability, pace, and continuous improvement.
• Supervising day-to-day management of delivery partners, ensuring alignment to programme priorities, governance expectations, and delivery standards.
• Overseeing end-to-end execution of the programme, ensuring delivery outputs are consistent with client requirements and readiness deadlines.
• Managing complex stakeholder interfaces across client leadership, delivery partners, consultants, authorities, and third parties.
• Directing structured engagement, proactively identifying stakeholder risks, and turning constraints into deliverable actions.
• Being a champion of a strong safety-first culture and ensure DPs operate in line with programme HSE requirements and relevant KSA regulations.

You’ll Need To Have

• Degree qualified in engineering, construction management, project/programme management, or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
• Professional accreditation is preferred (e.g., PMP, MSP, PRINCE2, APM, RICS, CIOB, or similar).
• Proven senior leadership experience delivering large, complex, multi-asset programmes.
• Ability to lead senior stakeholders, make decisive recommendations, and drive outcomes in high-pressure, time-critical programmes.
• Strong commercial awareness with experience supporting change control, commercial oversight, and performance improvement.

Our values

Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of well-being in every team.

Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables and strategic outcomes and build long-term relationships with our clients.

Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry while always aligning with our compliance obligations.

Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfill all the criteria, please apply, as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.