Senior Manager Creative Services

Riyadh Air; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

Riyadh Air seeks a senior leader to head creative services, driving bold brand storytelling across advertising and media production. This role directs end-to-end production, ensuring timely, on-budget, high-quality output while collaborating with writers, directors, designers, marketers, and partners.

As a senior leader, you will shape strategy, build high-performing teams, manage budgets and contracts, and maintain creative excellence with commercial discipline across a complex portfolio.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in creative services, advertising or media production.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience with integrated media production, budgeting and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end creative production across campaigns and content initiatives.
• Plan and deliver schedules, resources, budgets and workflows across multiple projects.
• Oversee contract management and external partner oversight for performance.
• Align creative output with strategic priorities, audience needs and business goals.

Skills

Creative leadership

Budget management

Contract management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Media production

Advertising

Education

Degree

Job description

About the Company

Riyadh Air (RX), headquartered in the Saudi Capital, is the new national airline that’s shaping the future of flying. It seeks to lead the aviation industry by transforming Saudi Arabia into a global aviation and trade hub - a digitally native airline that will connect the kingdom to more than 100 destinations.

About the Role

Are you ready to lead creative services that bring bold brand storytelling to life across advertising and media production? This role is central to directing the end-to-end creative production process across campaigns and content initiatives. It ensures creative work is delivered on time, on budget, and to a consistently high standard. Working closely with writers, directors, designers, marketers, production teams, and technology partners, the role turns creative vision into executable plans. A core part of the position is aligning creative output with strategic priorities, audience needs, and business goals. With responsibility for planning and delivery, this position oversees schedules, resources, budgets, and production workflows across multiple projects. It also drives efficient ways of working that improve quality, productivity, and on-time execution. The role also leads contract management and external partner oversight to ensure strong performance, compliance, and seamless collaboration. Success depends on balancing stakeholder expectations while maintaining creative excellence and commercial discipline. As a senior leader, this position shapes functional strategy, builds high-performing teams, and creates an environment where innovation can thrive. It also brings clear direction, strong performance management, and thoughtful decision-making across a complex creative portfolio. This is a high-impact leadership role where your creative judgment, commercial acumen, and strategic direction will shape how our brand shows up to the world.

About You

Degree qualified, you will demonstrate more than 8 years of experience in creative services, advertising, media production, or a closely related discipline. You will bring deep expertise in integrated media production, strategic planning, budgeting, contract management, media rights management, and project delivery across complex creative environments. Success in this role depends on strong communication, sound financial judgment, stakeholder management, team leadership, and the ability to bring clarity and momentum to complex work.