Senior Bank Programme Lead – Saudi (Jeddah)

Tarabut Gateway; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Tarabut Gateway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is hiring a Project Manager to run two to three key bank programmes with major Saudi banks. You will own programme milestones, dependencies and risk, while managing senior client relationships and coordinating with product and commercial teams to accelerate time-to-market.

You will own the weekly governance cadence, drive go-live gates with compliance, and travel regularly to Riyadh and Bahrain as needed. Fluency in Arabic is required, English preferred.

Qualifications

• Essential: 6+ years in project or programme management, incl. at least 4 years delivering with banks or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia.
• Senior client relationships experience, with proven account growth, not just planning.
• Hands-on, proactive; can drill into details to unblock stalled workstreams.
• Rally cross-functional teams and maintain cadence across the org chart.
• Understand core systems, APIs, and integration delivery to test estimates and spot slippage early.
• Arabic language required; fluent English preferred.
• Based in Jeddah or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Project management

Banking experience

Stakeholder management

Client relationships

APIs & integrations

Arabic language

English language

Job description

Tarabut Gateway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is hiring a Project Manager to run two to three key bank programmes with major Saudi banks. You will own programme milestones, dependencies and risk, while managing senior client relationships and coordinating with product and commercial teams to accelerate time-to-market.

You will own the weekly governance cadence, drive go-live gates with compliance, and travel regularly to Riyadh and Bahrain as needed. Fluency in Arabic is required, English preferred.