Manager Operational Readiness Planning and Reporting DA

About Qiddiya Investment Company

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Manager for Operational Readiness Planning and Reporting DA. This full-time role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and requires an experienced professional to integrate program delivery views for decision-making.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose of this role is to establish a unified, decision-ready view of program delivery. This involves integrating Primavera P6 schedules with automated Power BI analytics and executive PowerPoint reporting. The successful candidate will combine hands-on Primavera P6 capability with a strong consulting mindset to manage complex schedules and provide concise reports to senior leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Primavera P6 Schedule Establishment & Control: Develop and maintain integrated master schedules across projects, operational readiness workstreams, and key interfaces. Establish enterprise project structures, WBS, activity coding, calendars, logic, milestones, constraints, and baselines. Integrate various project phases including construction, testing, commissioning, handover, operator mobilization, and Day 1 readiness activities. Validate schedule quality, run update cycles, perform variance analysis, forecasting, scenario modeling, and recovery planning. Implement controls for schedule ownership, change management, data cut-off, status dates, approvals, and baseline governance.
• Power BI Schedule Analytics: Design and implement Power BI data models and dashboards using Primavera P6 exports and approved project data. Automate reporting for progress, milestones, critical path, float, variance, slippage, look-ahead, risks, and dependencies. Develop drill-down views from portfolio to activity level and ensure data alignment with the approved P6 schedule through clear definitions and reconciliation controls.
• Executive PowerPoint Reporting: Produce concise, consulting-quality PowerPoint presentations for leadership forums, steering committees, and executive reviews. Translate schedule data into clear messages on performance, critical decisions, key risks, interdependencies, and required interventions. Develop standard reporting pages such as executive summary, milestone outlook, critical path, look-back/look-ahead, trend analysis, decision log, and recovery plans, ensuring clear storylines and evidence-based conclusions.
• Generic Responsibilities: Lead planning workshops with project teams and stakeholders to establish credible plans. Challenge assumptions and identify gaps between delivery completion and operational readiness. Define planning and reporting standards, templates, RACI, reporting calendars, quality checks, and governance routines. Coach schedule owners and reporting contributors to improve planning maturity and data quality. Provide independent advice to senior stakeholders and escalate material schedule risks with practical recommendations.

Key Deliverables

• Approved scheduling framework, coding structure, planning calendar, and schedule governance procedure.
• Integrated Primavera P6 master schedule with agreed baselines, interfaces, milestones, and critical path visibility.
• Power BI executive dashboard with documented definitions, refresh process, and reconciliation controls.
• Standard monthly and fortnightly PowerPoint reporting packs for executive governance forums.
• Critical path, milestone, two-week look-ahead, risk, dependency, change, and recovery reporting.
• Capability transfer materials and practical coaching for schedule owners and reporting contributors.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in planning and reporting.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 for schedule establishment and control.
• Experience in designing and implementing Power BI data models and dashboards.
• Demonstrated ability to produce executive-level PowerPoint reports.
• Strong consulting mindset and ability to work effectively with both activity-level planners and executive decision-makers.

Measures of Success

• Timely and consistent delivery of schedule performance, emerging risks, and required decisions to leadership.
• Clear ownership and traceable source data for all major milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Reconciliation of Power BI and PowerPoint outputs with the approved Primavera P6 schedule.
• Reduction in manual effort and reporting cycle time through automation and standardization.
• Continuous improvement in schedule quality, update discipline, forecasting credibility, and stakeholder accountability.