Director - Hospitality Project Management📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Director - Hospitality Project Management to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is responsible for leading the comprehensive progression of complex hospitality assets from planning through construction. The position requires fostering alignment among diverse stakeholders, establishing rigorous project controls, and governing performance to ensure informed and timely decision-making. The focus will be on proactively identifying and resolving project challenges, safeguarding program, quality, and commercial objectives, and ensuring consistent advancement throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day delivery of complex hospitality assets across planning, design, and construction stages.
• Drive strategic project performance through robust project controls, meticulously monitoring cost, program, quality, scope, and risk.
• Proactively identify issues, interrogate data, challenge outcomes, and drive corrective actions to ensure project success.
• Lead project governance and reporting, preparing submissions and translating complex data into clear, structured insights and actionable recommendations to support decision-making and secure timely outcomes across key milestones.
• Drive project execution by coordinating and managing interfaces, dependencies, and stakeholders, including consultants, contractors, operators, and internal teams, ensuring alignment and that actions and decisions are clearly defined, progressed, and closed to maintain delivery momentum.
• Develop and maintain detailed project management plans, programs, and coordination trackers to effectively support project execution.
• Represent projects at senior governance and leadership forums, articulating performance, key risks, and proposed mitigation strategies.
• Drive continuous improvements to project management plans, standards, and processes to enhance project performance and delivery efficiency across the wider portfolio.
• Lead, mentor, and develop project management teams, building capability, accountability, and high-performance project delivery behaviors.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline. A Master’s degree is preferred.
• A minimum of 20 years of experience in project management or construction management on major real estate or infrastructure developments.
• A minimum of 10 years of client-side or developer-side experience.
• Strong project delivery and controls expertise.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive desired outcomes.
• Clear and effective communication and reporting skills.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments, managing ambiguity, and adapting to shifting priorities.
• Proactive and adaptable, able to operate effectively in dynamic settings.
• Proficiency in project management and reporting tools such as Primavera P6 and Aconex.
• Experience delivering hospitality assets, including large-scale or complex developments.
• Experience interfacing with hotel Operators.
• Experience across the full project lifecycle, from planning to construction.
• Experience working client-side or developer-side within major project environments.
• Experience working with consultants, contractors, and delivery partners.
• Experience in KSA / GCC or similar large-scale development environments is preferred.
• Established relationships with key stakeholders including Consultants, Contractors and Suppliers, Delivery Partners / Project Management Consultants, Government Authorities and Approving Bodies, and Hotel Operators, including Brand Technical Services teams.

Required Skills

• Project Management
• Construction Management
• Cost Monitoring
• Program Monitoring
• Quality Monitoring
• Scope Monitoring
• Risk Monitoring
• Problem-Solving
• Decision-Making
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication
• Reporting
• Project Management Software (*, Primavera P6, Aconex)
• Hospitality Project Delivery
• Hotel Operator Interface
• Client-side Experience
• Developer-side Experience
• GCC Development Environments
• Chartered status (PMP, MRICS, MCIOB, CEng, RIBA, or equivalent) is preferred.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Parsons Corporation fosters an innovative culture guided by its leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth.