Senior Project Manager

siscojobs; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Sisco Jobs, a recruitment consultancy, seeks a Senior Project Manager for Saudi Arabia to lead end-to-end planning and delivery of large stadium projects within a PMC environment.

Ideal candidates will have 15+ years of stadium delivery experience, strong leadership, and proven governance, reporting, and risk-management capabilities to ensure on-time, on-budget, and safe project completion.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of project management and stadium delivery experience.
• Experience in a PMC environment mandatory.
• Senior-level responsibility for complex delivery and stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery of large stadium projects.
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and performance within a PMC environment.
• Coordinate consultants, contractors, designers, client reps, and authorities.
• Establish execution plans, milestones, reporting, and governance processes.
• Ensure compliance with specifications, safety, and commercial objectives.

Skills

Stadium project delivery

PMC project management

stakeholder management

planning & controls

delivery leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering/Construction Management/PM

Postgraduate qualification in PM/Construction Management

Tools

PMP/PRINCE2/ PMI certs

Job description

We are Sisco Jobs, a recruitment consultancy based in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. We are hiring for the position of Senior Project Manager in Saudi Arabia. We are seeking an accomplished project management professional with extensive experience delivering complex stadium projects and working within a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) environment. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership, stakeholder management, project controls, and end-to-end delivery expertise to ensure major projects are completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved scope, schedule, quality, and commercial objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery of large-scale stadium projects. Manage project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and performance within a PMC environment. Coordinate consultants, contractors, designers, client representatives, authorities, and other project stakeholders. Establish project execution plans, delivery strategies, milestones, reporting systems, and governance processes. Monitor construction progress against approved schedules and initiate corrective actions when deviations occur. Review project risks, technical constraints, interface issues, and change requirements throughout the project lifecycle. Lead senior-level project meetings and communicate progress, risks, decisions, and action items to key stakeholders. Ensure project delivery complies with approved specifications, contractual requirements, quality standards, and applicable safety requirements.

Required Skills

• Stadium Project Delivery — Proven experience managing and delivering stadium or comparable large-scale, technically complex projects.
• PMC Project Management — Strong understanding of consultancy-side project governance, coordination, monitoring, and reporting.
• Stakeholder Management — Ability to coordinate effectively with clients, consultants, contractors, authorities, and senior decision-makers.
• Project Planning & Controls — Strong capability in schedule management, progress monitoring, risk control, reporting, and corrective action.
• Project Delivery Leadership — Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive projects from planning through construction and completion.

Preferred Skills

• Experience managing major construction interfaces and multidisciplinary packages.
• Strong knowledge of risk, change, commercial, and project governance processes.
• Experience working on complex projects in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC region.

Work Experience Requirements

Candidates must have 15+ years of relevant professional experience in project management and delivery. Proven stadium delivery experience and previous experience working within a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) environment are mandatory. Candidates should demonstrate senior-level responsibility for complex project delivery and stakeholder coordination.

Education

Minimum: Typical qualification — Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Project Management, or a related discipline.

Preferred: Typical — Postgraduate qualification in Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.

Additional: Typical — PMP, PRINCE2, PMI‑related certification, or equivalent professional project management certification.