Director of Business Excellence

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	نوع العقد	دوام كامل
	طبيعة الوظيفة	بالموقع
	الموقع	الرياض

وصف الوظيفة

Overview of the Role

Mindfield Resources is seeking a Director of Business Excellence for a leading diversified organization in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves establishing and leading the Business Excellence function across multiple businesses and subsidiaries. The Director will drive the organization’s performance and operational excellence agenda, focusing on improving productivity, profitability, operational efficiency, and overall business performance.

Role Responsibilities

The Director of Business Excellence will work closely with senior leadership to identify performance gaps, understand root causes, and develop improvement initiatives. Key responsibilities include:

Establishing and continuously developing a group-wide performance management framework, covering financial and operational KPIs, budgets, business plans, and performance targets.
Analyzing business performance, identifying material gaps and underlying causes, and collaborating with leadership teams to implement corrective actions.
Leading operational and business excellence initiatives focused on productivity, profitability, cost efficiency, working capital, and resource utilization.
Reviewing end-to-end business processes to identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, automation, digitalization, and process reengineering.
Developing executive dashboards, benchmarking frameworks, and management reporting to provide meaningful insights into business performance.
Designing and leading structured improvement programs for businesses or functions with significant performance gaps, including clear targets, owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
Identifying and transferring best practices across businesses while establishing structured continuous-improvement and problem-solving methodologies.
Leading cross-functional performance, transformation, cost optimization, productivity, and organizational effectiveness initiatives in partnership with senior management.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess over 10 years of relevant experience and demonstrate a strong understanding of business performance drivers. Specific requirements include:

Strong understanding of profitability, margins, cash flow, working capital, productivity, cost efficiency, and overall business performance.
Proven experience in designing and implementing KPI and corporate performance management frameworks that drive measurable improvement beyond mere reporting.
Demonstrated experience leading improvement programs that have delivered measurable financial and operational results.
Strong capability in process improvement, root-cause analysis, benchmarking, continuous improvement, and cross-functional transformation initiatives.
Ability to work effectively with CEOs, General Managers, CFOs, and senior functional leaders, combining strong analytical capability with execution and follow-through.
Saudi Arabia or GCC experience is highly preferred.
Exposure to contracting, construction, industrial, energy, infrastructure, real estate, or other asset/project-intensive businesses is an advantage.

Work Environment and Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and operates on a full-time basis. The role involves working across multiple businesses and subsidiaries within a diversified organization, requiring collaboration with various senior leadership teams.