Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) (Senior Healthcare Experience Essential)

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading enterprise clinical strategy, medical governance, quality, patient and athlete safety, and clinical standards across all Qiddiya healthcare assets. The CCO will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer and will be a key member of the executive leadership team.

Role Purpose and Context

The Chief Clinical Officer serves as Qiddiya's most senior clinical executive, responsible for ensuring clinical delivery across all healthcare assets adheres to Qiddiya's clinical and wellness standards, quality expectations, and readiness requirements. This includes reflecting international evidence-based practices and applicable Saudi regulatory requirements. The CCO will translate the Kingdom's Vision 2030 and Qiddiya's healthcare ambitions into governed, accountable practice, championing patient and athlete safety, clinical research, and academic collaboration, with the aim of positioning Qiddiya as a regionally recognized center of clinical excellence. Key internal interfaces include the CEO, executive leadership team, healthcare asset leaders, quality and patient safety teams, clinical operations, digital health, legal and compliance, talent acquisition, and partnership teams. External interfaces include regulators, accreditation bodies, clinical partners, academic institutions, sports federations, professional teams, and other strategic healthcare partners.

Key Accountabilities

The CCO is responsible for setting enterprise clinical standards, quality expectations, and governance requirements for all Qiddiya healthcare assets. Day-to-day operational delivery, staffing deployment, and business-unit execution remain accountable to relevant operating leaders. Specific accountabilities include:

• Enterprise Clinical Strategy & Medical Affairs: Providing overall clinical leadership and setting the enterprise clinical strategy across all current and future service lines, in alignment with QIC and Vision 2030 healthcare transformation objectives. Serving as the principal clinical voice on the executive leadership team, advising the CEO/MD and the Board and Medical Advisory Committee on clinical strategy, service development, clinical risk, and medical policy. Defining clinical standards, quality expectations, and readiness requirements for all healthcare assets. Representing Qiddiya's clinical capabilities to sports federations, professional teams, government stakeholders, regulators, and strategic partners.
• Clinical Governance, Quality & Patient/Athlete Safety: Establishing Qiddiya's overarching clinical governance and quality framework, setting expectations for patient and athlete safety, clinical quality, risk, and compliance. Providing a consistent enterprise-wide framework for clinical quality and accountability. Defining, monitoring, and reporting enterprise clinical KPIs and quality dashboards. Defining clinical governance and escalation requirements, ensuring appropriate review of priority quality, safety, and service issues, and providing senior clinical guidance on corrective actions, risk mitigation, and follow-up accountability.
• Clinical Excellence, Protocols & Care Pathways: Setting enterprise clinical excellence, safety, and wellness standards across all healthcare assets, aligned with evidence-based international practice and applicable Saudi regulatory requirements. Providing clinical and wellness guidance on service models, safety requirements, and areas for clinical improvement. Developing and continuously reviewing clinical policies, evidence-based care pathways, treatment protocols, and standard operating procedures. Promoting evidence-based, person-centered models of care. Setting enterprise clinical requirements for documentation, information governance, patient confidentiality, and related clinical compliance.
• Sports Medicine & Citywide Healthcare Clinical Advisory: Providing clinical and wellness advisory support to all healthcare assets, including input into service models, clinical readiness requirements, quality expectations, and relevant performance measures. Advising on multidisciplinary and integrated approaches to care. Providing clinical guidance on priority service areas and readiness requirements, identifying clinical gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Partnerships, Research & Academic Collaboration: Contributing to the development and implementation of clinical partnerships. Supporting research, innovation, and academic collaboration initiatives. Participating in evaluating and adopting emerging clinical technologies, digital health solutions, and clinical analytics.

Performance Measurement

Role success will be measured by the design and deployment of all Qiddiya healthcare assets, engagement of Qiddiya clinical partnerships, achievement of clinical readiness milestones, compliance with applicable Saudi regulatory and accreditation requirements, adoption of approved clinical standards and care pathways, strength of clinical partner engagement, and sustained improvement in patient and athlete safety, quality, and cost indicators through value-based care.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this position should possess a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience. Specific academic qualifications were not provided in the original description.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Chief Clinical Officer will work within the executive leadership team, collaborating with various internal departments and external partners to achieve Qiddiya's healthcare objectives.