Senior PMO Lead: Luxury Rail Launch & Financing

Dream of the Desert

Saudi Arabia

On-site

SAR 420,000 - 540,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

Dream of the Desert is seeking a Project Manager to own end-to-end project management for a luxury rail launch. You will oversee operational readiness across departments, the project financing and legal structuring workstream, and performance reporting to the Arsenale shareholder.

The role is the single point of accountability for the integrated plan, its interdependencies, and delivery on time and on budget.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of project management experience in a consultancy firm or innovative startups.
  • Proven ability to build and run complex project plans (Gantt with interdependencies, critical path, budget tracking) across multiple departments.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic AI tools and the drive to roll them out across the company.
  • Fluent in Arabic and English, written and spoken.
  • Based in Riyadh or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

  • Own the integrated project plan for Dream of the Desert, covering all departments.
  • Build and maintain the master Gantt with interdependencies, critical path and milestones; single source of truth.
  • Track progress against timeline and budget; flag slippages and drive corrective actions with heads of departments.
  • Run project governance: weekly workstream check-ins, committee materials, logs, and action tracking.
  • Coordinate cross-functional dependencies to avoid department blocks.

Skills

Project management
Stakeholder management
Agentic AI tools
Bilingual Arabic/English

Tools

MS Project/Smartsheet
Excel
PowerPoint

Job description

Dream of the Desert is seeking a Project Manager to own end-to-end project management for a luxury rail launch. You will oversee operational readiness across departments, the project financing and legal structuring workstream, and performance reporting to the Arsenale shareholder.

The role is the single point of accountability for the integrated plan, its interdependencies, and delivery on time and on budget.

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