Project Management Lead Film Studio (SPA )

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Project Management Lead for the Film Studio. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, and requires 5-10 years of experience. The role serves as the strategic coordination and project management focal point for the Film Studio asset, enabling the General Manager to maintain a single, decision-ready view of executive priorities, strategic initiatives, risks, milestones, and cross-functional actions.

Role Purpose

The Project Management Lead is responsible for establishing disciplined PMO routines, coordinating leadership requests, tracking implementation progress, and ensuring high-quality reporting and decision support across activation and steady-state operations. This involves providing end-to-end oversight of strategic initiatives and projects within the Film Studio asset.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the General Manager's strategic agenda, leadership priorities, action trackers, decision logs, and executive follow-ups.
• Establish PMO governance routines, project reporting standards, milestone tracking, and escalation mechanisms.
• Track project risks, dependencies, issues, decisions, and corrective actions across operational, commercial, financial, and corporate workstreams.
• Act as the primary coordination interface between the General Manager, functional teams, shared service stakeholders, consultants, and external parties.
• Coordinate strategic requests from senior leadership and external stakeholders, ensuring timely responses, ownership assignment, and progress visibility.
• Prepare executive reports, dashboards, briefing notes, presentations, and decision-support materials for leadership review.
• Support strategic planning, business transformation, activation readiness, and operating model implementation initiatives.
• Review and challenge outputs from teams, consultants, and vendors to ensure they are structured, accurate, and decision-ready.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment meetings, governance forums, and performance review routines.
• Monitor implementation progress against approved plans, budgets, timelines, and priority outcomes.
• Identify bottlenecks, unresolved dependencies, and emerging risks requiring leadership intervention.
• Maintain centralized records of key initiatives, actions, approvals, and management decisions.
• Support preparation for board, committee, steering, and executive update meetings where required.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning discipline, reporting quality, and cross-functional execution effectiveness.

Key Performance Indicators

• Timeliness of executive reports and dashboards.
• Milestone achievement rate for strategic initiatives.
• Closure rate of leadership actions and decisions.
• Accuracy and completeness of risk, issue, and dependency tracking.
• Quality of decision-support materials.
• Stakeholder satisfaction with PMO coordination.
• Reduction in overdue actions and unresolved escalations.

Qualifications and Experience

• 7-10 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, PMO, transformation office, entertainment, destination, real estate, or asset activation environments.
• Experience supporting new asset activation, operating model implementation, or strategic program delivery is preferred.

Technical and Functional Expectations

• Strong PMO, project governance, and executive reporting capability.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear leadership insights and recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management, structured problem-solving, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with discretion, urgency, and high attention to detail in a senior leadership environment.