Senior Manager - Destination Operations Planning

The Red Sea Development Company; Riyadh; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the hospitality sector is seeking a Senior Manager for Destination Operations Planning. This role involves overseeing complex business projects across departments, ensuring efficient operations, and aligning technology solutions with financial needs. The successful candidate will have a strong background in project management, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management experience in complex, cross-functional business environments.
• Demonstrated experience in business analysis, technology coordination, procurement processes, and financial/data alignment.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or similar project management certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of multi-modular projects across multiple departments.
• Manage timelines, budgets, resources, and scope while ensuring alignment with strategic business goals.
• Collaborate with accounting and finance teams to ensure appropriate data flows and financial reporting.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Financial Acumen

Communication

Analytical Thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Accounting, Engineering or related field

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Asana

Excel

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Senior Manager - Destination Operations Planning

Job Purpose
• We are seeking an experienced and highly versatile Senior Project Manager with robust expertise to join our Mobility Team.
• As the Senior Project Manager, you will lead and coordinate complex, and often multi modular business projects, ultimately support the Mobility business define, acquire and set up systems needed to support their operations, along with the required reporting that will flow from the data.
• This role will require excellent stakeholder management to assist both the business, and the departments involved: Technology, Procurement and Finance.
• This role requires a proactive leader with a systems-thinking mindset and a proven ability to bridge technical and business disciplines to deliver strategic initiatives successfully.
• This role is key to create a robust operating platform, to enable to business to drive profitability and efficiency.
• This is a senior position for an analytical thinker with a keen financial acumen, excellent communication skills, and proven experience in managing cross-functional activities.
• This is a great opportunity to shape scalable systems and processes in a growing organization
Job Responsibilities
Project Management & Leadership
• Drive end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of multi-modular projects across multiple departments and stakeholders.
• Manage timelines, budgets, resources, and scope while ensuring alignment with strategic business goals.
• Lead cross-functional teams, ensuring cohesive collaboration between business, technology, procurement, and finance workstreams.
• Lead the coordination of the development of the business requirement and processes with the business to drive the business requirements, which in turn drive the selection, implementation, and set up of business systems and process to deliver a robust operational tool that is fit for purpose.
Business Requirements Management
• Gather, document, and prioritize business needs from stakeholders across modules.
• Translate business requirements into actionable plans and coordinate cross-functional implementation.
• Identify and understand business challenges; propose and create solutions.
• Prepare and collate accurate reporting for senior management relating to aspects of business performance.
Technology Coordination
• Work closely with technical leads and solution architects to ensure appropriate systems design, development, integration, and testing.
• Ensure that technical deliverables align with the business needs and security/compliance standards.
Procurement Oversight
• Oversee the procurement lifecycle related to the project (e.g., vendor evaluation, RFP/RFQ processes, contract negotiation).
• Collaborate with procurement teams to ensure timely acquisition of goods/services within budget.
Data & Accounting Alignment
• Collaborate with accounting and finance teams to ensure appropriate data flows, cost tracking, and financial reporting.
• Ensure project activities align with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and financial audit standards.
• Drive data accuracy, reconciliation, and integrity across systems and modules.
Risk & Issue Management
• Proactively identify risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Maintain documentation and communication of risks, decisions, and resolutions across stakeholders.
Stakeholder Communication
• Maintain clear, consistent communication with project sponsors, leadership, and key stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates on project status, KPIs, financial performance, and strategic alignment.
• Carry out additional tasks and responsibilities as directed from time to time.
Policies, Systems, Processes, Procedures, Standards, Reports & Compliance
• Follow all relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions to ensure that work that will be delivered from operations and the systems is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Ensure adherence to internal financial policies, procedures, and controls to safeguard the organization s assets.
• Conduct periodic reviews and testing to assess the effectiveness of the reporting and any required financial controls to ensure the accuracy of the system output and reporting.
Continuous Improvement
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of the department s systems, processes and practices considering international best practice , improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
Team Leadership & Development

Job Requirements
• Bachelor s degree in Business, Information Systems, Accounting, Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of project management experience in complex, cross-functional business environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, procurement systems, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience in business analysis, technology coordination, procurement processes, and financial/data alignment.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or similar project management certification preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Asana) and financial reporting tools (e.g., Excel, SAP, Power BI).

Skills
• Strong desire to establish and learn in a new environment and to shape the future of the Operations by applying a continuous improvement mindset
• Excellent communicator with the ability to interact with various management levels
• Experience in managing modular or phased business transformation projects.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements.
• Adept at simplifying complexity and driving clarity across functional boundaries.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to partner with accounting teams on project costing, budgeting, and reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully handle multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture.
• Ability to analyzing, interpret and scrutiny of financial information.
• Should possess organizing capability and have a pleasing, get-going personality.

Company Industry

• Hotels
• Hospitality

Department / Functional Area

Keywords

• Senior Manager - Destination Operations Planning

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