Director Parking

About Qiddiya Investment Company

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Director - Parking to join its team in Riyadh Province, Riyadh. This full-time role requires over 10 years of experience and is central to managing municipal parking assets across Qiddiya.

Role Overview

The Director, Parking serves as the asset owner and accountable business lead for all municipal parking assets within Qiddiya. This position is responsible for establishing the commercial and operating models, governance, and performance frameworks to ensure sustainable commercial returns. The role also focuses on ensuring parking assets are safe, well-maintained, customer-focused, and operationally ready for both business-as-usual demands and major events. Key responsibilities include leading parking operator procurement and oversight, optimizing revenue and yield, lifecycle planning, asset assurance, and stakeholder integration. The role requires a strategic and commercially astute leader with substantial operating experience in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the ability to build and lead a high-performing team.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the accountable asset owner for Qiddiya municipal parking, including on-street, off-street, structured, surface, remote, park-and-ride, and shared parking assets.
• Develop and implement the city-wide parking strategy, operating model, governance framework, service standards, and investment priorities.
• Assess and recommend optimal delivery models for the parking portfolio, including in-house operations and commercial partnerships.
• Own the parking business plan, revenue strategy, pricing principles, demand assumptions, budgets, forecasts, and approved commercial targets.
• Optimize sustainable returns through appropriate tariff structures, yield management, permits, subscriptions, validations, event pricing, and ancillary revenue opportunities.
• Lead the definition of operator requirements, procurement scopes, evaluation criteria, mobilization plans, and performance specifications for parking operations.
• Manage senior relationships with parking operators and commercial partners, ensuring clear accountability for safety, service, revenue, and compliance.
• Set asset standards and lifecycle plans covering condition, availability, maintenance, cleanliness, lighting, signage, equipment, systems, accessibility, and customer facilities.
• Assure operability, maintainability, and commercial functionality through design reviews, stage gates, testing, commissioning, handover, and operational acceptance.
• Ensure the parking portfolio supports reliable daily operations and can scale safely and efficiently for major events, peak periods, and special activations.
• Coordinate event parking requirements with Transportation Operations, Public Realm Major Events, Security, FLS, Medical, Logistics, ICT, districts, venues, and event organizers.
• Establish consistent customer standards for access, wayfinding, payment, assistance, complaints, accessibility, and service recovery across the portfolio.
• Define business requirements for parking technology, revenue-control systems, data, dashboards, and system integration.
• Ensure compliance with applicable Saudi legislation, municipal requirements, permits, safety standards, contractual obligations, and Qiddiya governance.
• Build and lead a high-performing parking asset management team with clear accountabilities, objectives, and succession plans.
• Develop Saudi parking capability through recruitment, mentoring, structured knowledge transfer, professional development, and progressive leadership opportunities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Over 10 years of relevant experience in parking asset management and operations.
• Substantial operating experience within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Demonstrated strategic and commercial acumen in parking leadership.
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic environment focused on developing Qiddiya's municipal parking infrastructure and operations.

Application Process

Candidates meeting the qualifications are encouraged to apply for this role. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.