Project Delivery & Assurance Sr. Director

About NHC Innovation

NHC Innovation is seeking a Project Delivery & Assurance Sr. Director to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role requires over 10 years of experience and focuses on managing project delivery and assurance processes.

Role Overview

The Project Delivery & Assurance Sr. Director will be responsible for translating strategic plans into actionable delivery roadmaps and ensuring project execution aligns with established methodologies and governance. This role involves overseeing the entire project lifecycle, from intake and planning to implementation, monitoring, and post-delivery review, ensuring transparency and adherence to standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the translation of the Project Delivery & Assurance plan into delivery roadmaps, milestones, and controls, ensuring alignment with EPMO methodologies and governance requirements.
• Develop structured intake mechanisms for requests from Sales and Product Management, including prioritization, classification, and project charter registration.
• Supervise project scoping practices, defining objectives, deliverables, resources, and contributors with EPMO, and onboard teams by confirming roles, interfaces, and milestone commitments.
• Facilitate stakeholder mapping and communication cadences, establishing protocols for planning decisions, escalations, approvals, and periodic progress reporting.
• Coordinate feasibility reviews with Pre-Sales and Product Development & Deployment, validating technical specifications, dependencies, and approvals before implementation.
• Review and validate detailed cost estimates and project budgets, aligning allocations with Delegation of Authority thresholds and establishing financial monitoring routines.
• Manage RAID identification and maintenance, documenting risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, mitigations, and triggers to anticipate cross-team impacts.
• Supervise monitoring of project delivery against scope, schedule, and quality baselines, validating interim deliverables and escalating conflicts or delays.
• Review implementation of testing plans with Product QA/QC, confirming coverage against acceptance criteria and addressing unresolved defects.
• Review cutover strategies and data migration plans with Product Deployment & Integration, confirming feasibility, dependency alignment, and approvals.
• Coordinate vendor engagement information with Procurement and Finance, tracking performance obligations, variation orders, and payment milestones.
• Monitor integrated dashboards covering timelines, budgets, quality metrics, defects, and benefits, and consolidate periodic status updates for EPMO and senior stakeholders.
• Conduct benefits tracking against baselines, document realized outcomes, and submit structured reports for EPMO review and Strategy Management validation.
• Consolidate lessons learned, vendor performance evaluations, and process gaps, and develop improvement backlogs, templates, and toolkits.

Experience and Qualifications

• A minimum of 11 years of relevant experience in project delivery and assurance.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and programs from initiation to closure.
• Experience with EPMO methodologies and governance requirements.
• Strong understanding of financial control, risk management, and quality assurance processes.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, offering an opportunity to contribute to NHC Innovation's strategic project delivery initiatives.