Initiatives Management Office & Business Oversight - Director

NEOM; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A visionary development project in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Head of Department for the Initiatives Management Office. This role involves overseeing strategic initiatives and reporting to the MD & CEO. Responsibilities include ensuring initiatives align with company goals, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and managing stakeholder engagement. This position requires a candidate with strong leadership, communication skills, and a proactive approach to project governance.

Responsibilities

• Support the MD to translate the vision and priorities into actionable strategic initiatives.
• Ensure all initiatives are aligned with the company’s overarching strategy, goals, and KPIs.
• Act as the central coordination point for cross-functional initiatives, ensuring clarity of purpose, scope, and outcomes.
• Lead the planning, prioritization, and tracking of MD-sponsored initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and impact.
• Establish and manage governance frameworks to track initiatives progress.
• Regularly synthesize progress updates and insights for the MD and Executive Leadership Team.
• Serve as a key liaison between the MD and senior executives, ensuring consistent communication.
• Lead special studies and requests from the MD including preparing the analyses.

Job description

Overview

NEOM is an accelerator of human progress and a vision of what a new future might look like. A region in northwest Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea, NEOM is being built from the ground up to include hyperconnected, cognitive cities, ports, next-generation infrastructure and industries, enterprise zones, research centers, sports and entertainment venues and tourist destinations.

As a destination, it will be a home for people who dream big and want to be part of building a new model for exceptional livability, creating thriving businesses and reinventing environmental conservation.

As a workplace, it is a place for people who share our core values of care, curiosity, diversity, passion, respect, and becoming a catalyst for change.

Are you ready to help NEOM find solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges? Are you prepared to create a lasting legacy that benefits generations to come? Then we want to hear from you!

Position: Head of Department - Initiatives Management Office and Business Oversight

Reporting to: MD & CEO

Roles and responsibilities

MD-sponsored Initiatives Oversight & Governance

• Support the MD to translate the vision and priorities into actionable strategic initiatives
• Ensure all initiatives are aligned with the company’s overarching strategy, goals, and KPIs
• Act as the central coordination point for cross-functional initiatives, ensuring clarity of purpose, scope, and outcomes
• Lead the planning, prioritization, and tracking of MD-sponsored initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and impact
• Establish and manage governance frameworks, reporting mechanisms, and dashboards to track initiatives progress (identified by MD) and highlight risks or delays
• Drive accountability by monitoring initiative owners, providing escalation support when needed, and ensuring resolution of bottlenecks

Performance Monitoring & Business Progress reporting to MD

• Regularly synthesize progress updates and insights for the MD and Executive Leadership Team
• Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and interdependencies across initiatives and recommend corrective actions
• Provide structured program management discipline to MD initiatives, ensuring delivery excellence and measurable outcomes

MD Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Serve as a key liaison between the MD and senior executives, ensuring consistent communication and alignment on initiatives
• Support MD engagements with key stakeholders (e.g., shareholders, government entities, etc,.)
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration by breaking silos and fostering a culture of transparency and accountability

Special studies

• Lead special studies and requests from the MD including preparing the analyses, and providing the recommendations
• Prepare high-quality reports, presentations, and communications to update the MD, Executive Leadership, and Board