Project Delivery & Assurance Sr. Director

About the Role

NHC Innovation is seeking a Project Delivery & Assurance Sr. Director to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves managing the translation of the Project Delivery & Assurance plan into actionable delivery roadmaps, milestones, and controls, ensuring strict alignment with EPMO methodologies and governance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the translation of the Project Delivery & Assurance plan into delivery roadmaps, milestones, and controls, ensuring alignment with EPMO methodologies and governance.
• Develop structured intake mechanisms to capture requests, prioritize classifications, and register project charters for planning and control.
• Supervise project scoping practices, defining objectives, deliverables, resources, and contributors with EPMO, and onboard teams by confirming roles and commitments.
• Facilitate stakeholder mapping and communication cadences, establishing protocols for planning decisions, escalations, approvals, and periodic progress reporting.
• Coordinate feasibility reviews with Pre-Sales and Product Development & Deployment, validating technical specifications and dependencies.
• Review and validate detailed cost estimates and project budgets, aligning allocations with Delegation of Authority thresholds and establishing financial monitoring routines.
• Manage RAID identification and maintenance, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are documented with mitigations and triggers.
• Supervise monitoring of project delivery against scope, schedule, and quality baselines, validating interim deliverables and escalating conflicts or delays.
• Review implementation of testing plans with Product QA/QC, confirming coverage against acceptance criteria and addressing defects.
• Review cutover strategies and data migration plans with Product Deployment & Integration, confirming feasibility and approvals.
• Coordinate vendor engagement information with Procurement and Finance, tracking performance obligations, variation orders, and payment milestones.
• Monitor integrated dashboards covering timelines, budgets, quality metrics, defects, and benefits, and consolidate periodic status updates for EPMO and senior stakeholders.
• Conduct benefits tracking against baselines, document realized outcomes, and submit structured reports for EPMO review and Strategy Management validation.
• Consolidate lessons learned, vendor performance evaluations, and process gaps, and develop improvement backlogs, templates, and toolkits.

Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field is required.
• A minimum of 11 years of relevant experience is required, with at least 4 years in a leadership role.
• Certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-RMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or AgilePM are optional.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.