Director of Enterprise Activation (Healthcare Sector)

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Director of Enterprise Activation to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to establishing Qiddiya Investment Company (QIC) as a fully functional organization, focusing on the practical implementation of corporate strategy, operating model development, and the disciplined transition from preliminary structures to the target organizational design. The Director will report directly to the CEO.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and execute the corporate strategy, strategic priorities, and long-term growth agenda, evaluating emerging healthcare trends.
• Translate approved organizational design into an activated operating model, defining roles, structures, decision rights, and ways of working across functions.
• Lead the enterprise program management office for startup build, maintaining the master mobilization plan, milestones, and critical path.
• Define and coordinate the shared-services model, leveraging QIC and wider Qiddiya ecosystem shared services (finance, human capital, technology) during the startup phase.
• Oversee the phased transition roadmap for strategy and enterprise activation, including the stand-up of new pillars and consolidation of enabling functions.
• Coordinate with Human Capital and function leads on workforce requirements, mobilization dependencies, and the setup of tools, workspace, policies, and processes.
• Establish the enterprise delivery reporting cadence, progress dashboards, and escalation mechanisms, coordinating leadership delivery rhythms.
• Maintain the enterprise risk and interdependency register for the startup build, driving mitigation and readiness across functions, and assessing organizational readiness.
• Serve as the primary coordination point between QHC functions, QIC, and the wider Qiddiya ecosystem on activation and operating-model matters.

Qualifications and Experience

• A Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Healthcare Management, Organization Design, or a related field is required.
• Over 10 years of progressive experience in organizational activation, transformation, operating-model design, PMO leadership, or large-scale program delivery.
• Demonstrated experience in standing up new organizations, functions, or greenfield ventures.
• Proven ability to mobilize complex, multi-stakeholder programs to defined milestones, ideally within healthcare, sports, government/semi-government, or large ecosystem-based environments.
• Experience operating within a shared-services or SLA-based model is considered a strong advantage.
• Ability to translate organization design and strategy into activated capability and to manage executive governance and reporting cadences.
• Working knowledge of the Saudi operating environment and Vision 2030 context is preferred.

Work Environment

This role operates within the dynamic Qiddiya ecosystem, requiring collaboration across various functions and with Qiddiya Investment Company (QIC) shared services. The position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is a full-time commitment.