Project Manager

About Belden Inc.

Belden Inc. focuses on connecting people, information, and ideas to address complex connectivity challenges. The company aims to foster innovation and create value for its employees, customers, and the communities it serves. Belden is involved in shaping the future of digitization and developing new innovations.

Role Overview: Project Manager

Belden Inc. is seeking a Project Manager for the EMEA region, with a strong focus on projects within the Eastern region, specifically Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading the planning, execution, and delivery of complex customer projects, particularly for National Grid Saudi. The Project Manager will work with cross-functional teams, customers, and external partners to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards. This position is suitable for a project professional with 5-10 years of experience in industrial and energy verticals, possessing strong stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of complex turnkey and milestone-based projects across the MEA region, with a primary focus on National Grid Saudi projects, ensuring delivery within scope, budget, timeline, and quality expectations.
• Coordinate with Solution Sales, Solution Consultants, Operations, customers, and third-party suppliers to gather inputs, manage deliverables, allocate resources, and achieve project milestones across industrial and energy verticals.
• Manage project financial performance, including budgets, margins, cash flow, and resource planning, taking corrective actions as needed to maintain project viability and success.
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders through proactive communication, effective expectation management, and structured reporting on project progress, risks, issues, and changes.
• Drive quality, risk, and change management throughout the full project lifecycle, ensuring smooth project closure, handover, and capture of lessons learned for continuous improvement.

Qualifications and Experience

• Project Management Expertise: 5+ years of project management experience leading complex turnkey or milestone-based customer projects in industrial environments, ideally within energy verticals or related critical infrastructure sectors. Experience with National Grid Saudi is an asset.
• Technical and Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, ideally with a focus on OT/IT networking in vertical markets such as power utilities, mass transit, discrete manufacturing, and other energy verticals. Experience with multi-vendor industrial application projects is valued.
• Tools and Organizational Capability: Experience with project management and CRM tools, including Salesforce. Ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities, and stakeholder expectations in a matrix organization.
• Communication and Collaboration Skills: Strong team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of working effectively across cross-functional teams, customers, and external partners. Fluency in both Arabic and English, written and spoken, is mandatory.
• Professional Mindset and Flexibility: Structured, proactive, and quality-focused approach to project delivery, with the ability to manage risk, change, and financial performance. Willingness to travel domestically and internationally across the MEA region as required.