Coordination Manager (Program & Interface)

WS Atkins & Partners Overseas Engineering Consultants; Arabia Saudí; Presencial; SAR 240.000 - 420.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Tax-free salary

Life insurance coverage

Medical insurance

Annual leave balance

Company gratuity scheme

Discretionary bonus program

Annual flight contribution

Transportation & housing allowances

Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7

Descripción de la vacante

WS Atkins & Partners Overseas Engineering Consultants seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead complex, multi-stakeholder programs on behalf of the client. The role focuses on client-side leadership, delivering integration, governance, and decision-making across workstreams rather than a traditional secondee.

You will drive alignment between objectives, delivery plans, budgets, and stakeholders, proactively managing risks, interfaces, and dependencies to ensure successful program outcomes.

Formación

• 8+ years in program management, project management, or strategic delivery roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex, multi-stakeholder programs.
• Strong background in integration management, interface management, and governance.
• Proven ability to operate independently and lead senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in client-side organizations, PMOs, major development programs, or government environments.
• Strong commercial, contractual, and risk management awareness.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the overall planning, coordination, and delivery of strategic programs and projects.
• Act as the central integration point across multiple workstreams.
• Establish and maintain program governance, reporting structures, decision-making processes, and escalation mechanisms.
• Drive alignment between strategic objectives, delivery plans, budgets, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure dependencies, interfaces, risks, and opportunities are proactively identified and managed.
• Manage complex interfaces across multiple projects and disciplines.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure effective collaboration between stakeholder groups.
• Monitor program performance, schedule, risks, issues, and delivery milestones.
• Lead problem-solving and decision-making across organizational boundaries.
• Operate as a client-side representative, providing leadership, challenge, and direction to stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, recommendations, reports, and presentations.
• Support leadership in strategic decision-making and prioritization.
• Lead organizational and operational transition initiatives, including workforce mobilization and relocation programs.

Conocimientos

Program management

Stakeholder management

Governance

Leadership

Client-side experience

Risk management

Educación

PMP, PgMP, MSP, PRINCE2

Descripción del empleo

Job Description Overview

We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Program Manager to lead complex, multi-stakeholder programs on behalf of the client. The successful candidate will operate as a true client-side leader, driving delivery, integration, governance, and decision-making across multiple workstreams rather than acting as a traditional secondee. The role requires an individual who can independently lead and coordinate complex initiatives, manage interfaces across numerous stakeholders, anticipate risks, resolve issues proactively, and ensure successful program outcomes.

Your role

Program Leadership & Integration

• Lead the overall planning, coordination, and delivery of strategic programs and projects.


• Act as the central integration point across multiple workstreams.


• Establish and maintain program governance, reporting structures, decision-making processes, and escalation mechanisms.


• Drive alignment between strategic objectives, delivery plans, budgets, resources, and stakeholder expectations.


• Ensure dependencies, interfaces, risks, and opportunities are proactively identified and managed.

Project & Interface Management

• Manage complex interfaces across multiple projects and disciplines.


• Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure effective collaboration between stakeholder groups.


• Monitor program performance, schedule, risks, issues, and delivery milestones.


• Lead problem-solving and decision-making across organizational boundaries.

Client Representation

• Operate as a client-side representative, providing leadership, challenge, and direction to RCU stakeholders and delivery teams.


• Prepare executive-level briefings, recommendations, reports, and presentations.


• Support leadership in strategic decision-making and prioritization.

People Transition & Operational Integration

• Lead organizational and operational transition initiatives, including workforce mobilization and relocation programs.


• Coordinate staff transfers and integration activities across locations.


• Oversee related program workstreams such as staff well-being and employee experience


• Accommodation and housing arrangements


• Transportation and mobility planning


• Aviation and travel coordination


• Education and schooling support


• Healthcare access and services


• Stakeholder engagement and communications


• Ensure a coordinated and seamless transition experience for affected personnel.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain effective relationships with client leadership, government entities, consultants, contractors, and service providers.


• Facilitate workshops, steering committees, governance meetings, and executive reviews.


• Manage complex stakeholder environments and competing priorities.

About you

• 8+ years of experience (our PMO Framework experience requirements) in program management, project management, or strategic delivery roles.


• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex, multi-stakeholder programs.


• Strong background in integration management, interface management, and governance.


• Proven ability to operate independently and lead senior stakeholders.


• Experience working in client-side organizations, PMOs, major development programs, or government environments.


• Strong commercial, contractual, and risk management awareness.


• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

Preferred

• Arabic speaker.


• Experience within Saudi Arabia and/or large public-sector transformation programs.


• Experience supporting organizational transitions, relocations, operational readiness, or mobilization programs.


• PMP, PgMP, MSP, PRINCE2, or equivalent program management certification.


• Experience working with executive leadership and C-suite stakeholders.

Personal Attributes

• Strategic thinker with strong execution capability.


• Confident and decisive leader.


• Able to \"run the show\" and drive outcomes with minimal direction.


• Comfortable managing ambiguity and complexity.


• Highly collaborative while maintaining accountability and ownership.


• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.


• Solution-oriented, proactive, and commercially aware.

Rewards & benefits Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

• Tax-free salary.


• Life insurance coverage.


• Medical insurance.


• Annual leave balance.


• Company gratuity scheme.


• Discretionary bonus program.


• Annual flight contribution.


• Transportation & housing allowances.


• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, familycare, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences. Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.

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