Project Manager

Tarabut Gateway; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Tarabut Gateway is seeking a seasoned Programme Manager to own complex banking programmes in Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on delivering multi-party milestones, managing client relationships, and driving cross-functional delivery with a proactive, hands-on approach.

You will lead weekly cadences with bank counterparts, tackle critical path issues, and identify opportunities for expansion within live programmes while coordinating with compliance for go-live gates.

Qualifications

• At least 6 years in project or programme management, including 4+ years delivering with banks or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia.
• Senior client relationships experience and account growth, not just planning.
• Hands-on and proactive; drive stalled workstreams regardless of org chart.
• Able to bring teams together and sustain cadence across internal and client sides.
• Understand core systems, APIs and integration delivery to test estimates and spot slippage early.
• Arabic is a must; fluent English is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the programme milestones, dependencies, decisions and risks in one place.
• Own the relationship; be the person the bank calls first.
• Run the weekly rhythm with bank counterparties, working groups, steercos, minutes and actions.
• Dig into details when things slip and stay with it until it moves.
• Spot expansion inside live programmes and turn it into scoped follow-on work.
• Manage approval-linked milestones and go-live gates with our compliance team.
• Surface risk early and arrive with options.

Skills

Project management

Programme management

Client relationship management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Arabic language

English fluency

Job description

• Own the plan for each programme milestones dependencies decisions and risks in one place people actually use
• Own the relationship be the person the bank calls first
• Run the weekly rhythm with bank counterparties working groups steercos minutes and actions that close
• Get into the detail when things slip and stay with it until it moves
• Spot expansion inside live programmes and turn it into scoped follow-on work
• Manage approval-linked milestones and go-live gates with our compliance team
• Surface risk early and arrive with options

Your first 90 days

One programme plan and weekly cadence live and adopted by every counterparty The first bank milestone you inherit delivered on its date A RAID log both sides trust more than their inbox

• You have at least 6 years in project or programme management, including at least 4 years delivering with banks or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia
• You have held senior client relationships and grown an account, not just administered a plan
• You are proactive to the point of hands‑on, and when a workstream stalls you get into the detail and move it, whatever the org chart says
• You bring people with you, and internal and client teams follow your cadence because it works, not because it is mandated
• You understand core systems, APIs and integration delivery well enough to test an estimate and spot slippage a month before it lands
• Arabic is a must, and fluent English is strongly preferred
• You are based in Riyadh or ready to relocate

Nice to have

• Delivery experience with banks elsewhere in the GCC
• Open banking, lending or payments domain experience
• Relationships inside GCC banks that you built and kept
• You are fluent with AI tooling and current on what the latest LLMs can and cannot do, using them to run programmes faster while knowing when output needs a human pass
• Experience taking a regulated product through go-live with SAMA or CBB supervised institutions