Head of Delivery / RDO Lead

Confidential Careers; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers seeks a seasoned transformation leader to head the Results Delivery Office, translating strategic initiatives into measurable outcomes through disciplined delivery governance, execution cadence, issue resolution, and performance tracking.

You will own day-to-day delivery across the portfolio, govern stage-gate processes, coordinate with CXOs and sponsors, and ensure milestones, risks, and value realization are clearly communicated to executives.

Qualifications

• 10–13 years of experience in transformation, PMO, strategy execution, or enterprise delivery
• Experience managing large-scale strategic/transformation portfolios
• Strong stage-gate and delivery governance experience
• Ideally from strategy consulting, transformation, or a high-performing corporate strategy environment
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day delivery cadence across the company's strategic initiative portfolio.
• Establish and manage weekly delivery rhythms, reviews, and escalation forums.
• Track initiative milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and expected outcomes.
• Own stage-gate discipline and ensure initiatives progress through agreed decision points.
• Act as the escalation point for cross-functional and cross-workstream risks.
• Challenge initiative owners on delays, dependencies, and delivery barriers.
• Work closely with CXOs, sponsors, initiative owners, and functional teams to remove roadblocks.
• Monitor leading indicators and identify delivery risks before they impact outcomes.
• Prepare concise executive updates on progress, risks, decisions required, and value realization.
• Ensure initiatives remain aligned with the company's strategic priorities and expected business outcomes.
• Coach initiative owners and teams on delivery discipline and RDO ways of working.

Job description

Lead the Results Delivery Office and ensure strategic initiatives are translated into measurable outcomes through disciplined delivery governance, execution cadence, issue resolution, and performance tracking.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day delivery cadence across the company's strategic initiative portfolio.
• Establish and manage weekly delivery rhythms, reviews, and escalation forums.
• Track initiative milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and expected outcomes.
• Own stage-gate discipline and ensure initiatives progress through agreed decision points.
• Act as the escalation point for cross-functional and cross-workstream risks.
• Challenge initiative owners on delays, dependencies, and delivery barriers.
• Work closely with CXOs, sponsors, initiative owners, and functional teams to remove roadblocks.
• Monitor leading indicators and identify delivery risks before they impact outcomes.
• Prepare concise executive updates on progress, risks, decisions required, and value realization.
• Ensure initiatives remain aligned with the company's strategic priorities and expected business outcomes.
• Coach initiative owners and teams on delivery discipline and RDO ways of working.

Ideal Profile

• 10–13 years of experience in transformation, PMO, strategy execution, or enterprise delivery.
• Experience managing large-scale strategic/transformation portfolios.
• Strong stage-gate and delivery governance experience.
• Ideally from strategy consulting, transformation, or a high-performing corporate strategy environment.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

This aligns directly with the proposal's description that the role owns the delivery cadence and stage-gate discipline across the five workstreams and serves as the escalation point for cross-workstream risk.