Senior Landscape Design Manager📣 إعلان

About Parsons and the Opportunity

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Landscape Design Manager to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading and coordinating landscape and public realm design efforts for Sports Business Unit (Sport BU) assets across the city. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring design quality, compliance with city and sports federation standards, and alignment with broader master planning and sustainability objectives.

The Role of Senior Landscape Design Manager

As a Senior Landscape Design Manager, you will be responsible for the comprehensive oversight of landscape and public realm design within the Sports Business Unit. This includes ensuring that all design elements are fully coordinated across disciplines, adhere to project briefs, and meet required quality and timeline standards. The role requires a strong understanding of sports-related spatial and functional requirements, alongside a commitment to integrating sustainable design principles into all projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the design review of Sport BU landscape and public realm elements, including planting, irrigation, grading, street furniture, hardscaping, and public open space.
• Coordinate multiple landscape design packages to ensure consistency, integration, and adherence to the project brief.
• Assist in developing the scope of services for appointed design consultants, ensuring all landscape and public realm requirements are clearly defined and aligned with project objectives.
• Ensure landscape-specific deliverables such as planting plans, hardscape layouts, irrigation strategies, and grading designs are fully coordinated across disciplines, aligned with the project brief, and delivered to the required quality and timeline.
• Ensure land planning and landscape design for all Sports assets comply with relevant building codes, City Framework standards, and the standards and technical requirements of sports stakeholders and federations.
• Maintain a strong understanding of sports-related spatial and functional requirements in the public realm and keep abreast of changes to applicable codes, standards, and guidelines.
• Liaise with the Master Development Business Unit and City planning teams to ensure Sport BU assets align with broader city and district planning codes, comply with urban design standards and policies, and integrate seamlessly into the wider master plan.
• Work closely with the Sport BU development team and the Centre of Excellence Design Directors to ensure close coordination on all Sports assets, clear communication of landscape design intent and constraints, and timely resolution of design issues across disciplines.
• Oversee the broader planning and integration of Sports assets across the City, ensuring connectivity to transport, public realm, and adjacent uses, coherent landscape character and identity, and optimized user experience for athletes, spectators, and visitors.
• Oversee the implementation of sustainability requirements within landscape and public realm design, including water-efficient planting and irrigation solutions, climate-responsive shading and material selection, and integration of sustainable mobility and active lifestyle elements.
• Work with the sustainability team to demonstrate compliance with project sustainability targets and relevant certification systems.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of experience in landscape design and management, preferably within large-scale urban development or sports-related projects.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate complex design packages across multiple disciplines.
• Proficiency in ensuring compliance with various building codes, city planning standards, and specific stakeholder requirements.
• Strong understanding of sustainable design principles and their application in landscape and public realm projects.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills for effective liaison with internal teams, external consultants, and regulatory bodies.

Key Collaborations and Interfaces

This role requires extensive collaboration with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure integrated and compliant design solutions. Key interfaces include:

• Sports Business Unit Development Team
• Centre of Excellence Design Directors
• Master Development Business Unit
• City Planning and Regulatory Teams
• External Design Consultants (Landscape, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering)
• Sustainability Team
• Sports Federations and Relevant Stakeholders

Performance Metrics

Success in this role will be measured by:

• The delivery of high-quality, integrated landscape and public realm design across Sport BU assets.
• Full compliance with relevant codes, standards, and sports federation requirements.
• Effective integration of Sports assets within the broader city master plan.
• Demonstrable achievement of sustainability objectives within landscape and public realm design.