Director Infrastructure Assets Management📣 Job Ad

About Qiddiya

Qiddiya Investment Company is a Saudi investment and development entity leading large-scale entertainment, sports, and culture initiatives, including the development of Qiddiya City and its related ventures. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The Role: Director Infrastructure Assets Management

The Director Infrastructure Assets Management will provide leadership in the comprehensive management of infrastructure assets. This role focuses on ensuring operational readiness, service assurance, and optimal portfolio performance, alongside the realization of commercial value from these assets within a complex real estate environment. The successful candidate will contribute to the long-term performance of major infrastructure assets, influencing how critical services are planned, activated, and sustained over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Input operational requirements for infrastructure assets into stage gates to ensure readiness, service needs, and handover considerations are captured.
• Oversee portfolio-level service quality across infrastructure assets to ensure service assurance, reliable operations, and alignment with agreed standards.
• Support infrastructure asset lifecycle planning from an operational perspective, including maintenance priorities, renewal requirements, handover planning, and performance insights.
• Lead commercial activation of infrastructure assets, including leasing, commercial arrangements, joint ventures and partnerships, service charge, cost recovery, and invoicing inputs in coordination with Finance & Controls.
• Develop infrastructure asset portfolio performance insights and optimization recommendations to enhance service delivery, asset performance, and long-term value realization.
• Coordinate with City Assets O&M, operators, FM providers, Finance & Controls, and relevant stakeholders to align portfolio priorities and service requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, economics, real estate development, asset management, town planning, or a related field.
• A minimum of 12 years of relevant director-level experience in infrastructure asset management, utilities, roads, public realm infrastructure, facilities management, or large-scale asset operations.

Essential Experience and Skills

• Demonstrated experience with asset lifecycle planning, service quality, handover readiness, and portfolio performance management.
• Commercial experience encompassing joint ventures, partnerships, service charge, cost recovery, and value optimization.
• Proven ability to translate operational needs into stage gate requirements and readiness inputs.
• Strong capability in assessing asset performance, identifying improvement opportunities, and developing actionable recommendations.
• Experience coordinating with operators, FM providers, City Operations functions, executive leadership, government entities, and internal business units.
• Eligible to work in Saudi Arabia.

Working at Qiddiya

This full-time position offers an opportunity to contribute to the strategic development and sustained performance of critical infrastructure within a dynamic, large-scale development project in Riyadh. The role involves working collaboratively across a broad stakeholder landscape to ensure the effective planning, activation, and long-term value of Qiddiya's infrastructure assets.