Senior Director MMC and Knowledge Sharing CDU📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Senior Director MMC and Knowledge Sharing CDU to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is responsible for institutionalizing innovation and structured learning across the Qiddiya City Programme. The position leads two strategic programme enablers: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and Delivery Learning & Knowledge Systems, aiming to enhance productivity, accelerate decision-making, and embed institutional delivery intelligence across Business Units.

Strategic Focus Areas

The Senior Director operates as a strategic enabler, strengthening delivery maturity, governance capability, and structured transparency. The role ensures Qiddiya transitions from fragmented project-based execution to structured, repeatable, and performance-driven delivery systems.

• Modern Methods of Construction (MMC): Define and steer Qiddiya's MMC ambition, roadmap, and governance framework. Identify scalable MMC opportunities, establish standards and adoption frameworks, align with Procurement and Supply Chain, translate pilot outcomes into institutionalized standards, and monitor measurable impact on cost, schedule, quality, HSE, and sustainability performance. This role enables structured and scalable adoption across the programme without replacing Business Unit delivery accountability.
• Delivery Learning & Knowledge Systems: Establish and govern a structured delivery knowledge-sharing system. Institutionalize lessons learned, best practices, and repeatable standards. Create cross-Business Unit transparency mechanisms to reduce duplication and rework, implement structured feedback loops across functions, and embed a culture of constructive transparency where learning accelerates performance. Knowledge sharing is positioned as a performance accelerator and delivery control mechanism.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for MMC and Delivery Learning initiatives in alignment with SDU mandate and Target Operating Model.
• Translate systemic delivery risks and recurring failure patterns into structured institutional solutions.
• Secure executive alignment and approvals for frameworks, governance models, and scaling strategies.
• Ensure integration across Delivery, Procurement, Engineering/Design, Logistics, Commercial, and Digital functions.
• Drive measurable improvements in delivery predictability, productivity, and cross-Business Unit coordination.

Measures of Success

Success in this role will be measured by:

• For MMC: Demonstrable adoption of MMC solutions on eligible assets, improved schedule confidence and delivery consistency, established supplier/manufacturing pathways supporting scalable adoption, and measurable performance gains on pilot implementations.
• For Delivery Learning: Reduction in repeat systemic issues and avoidable rework, increased cross-Business Unit coordination and visibility, sustained platform adoption and knowledge reuse, and faster issue resolution cycles across the delivery ecosystem.

Stakeholder Environment

The role involves extensive interaction with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders:

• Internal: SDU Leadership; Business Unit Delivery Directors; CDU/Implementation; Engineering/Design; Procurement & Supply Chain; Logistics; Commercial/Contracts; Digital/IT; People & Culture.
• External: Delivery partners; Tier 1 contractors; modular/offsite manufacturers; technology providers; specialist consultants; supply chain ecosystem.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this position should possess the following profile and experience:

• A senior international development and delivery executive with demonstrated experience leading major programmes or large-scale master developments.
• Minimum of 18 years of progressive experience in international real estate development, infrastructure, or complex construction environments.
• Proven leadership in multi-asset or giga-project settings with concurrent project portfolios.
• Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments, such as national transformation or large urban developments.
• Demonstrated exposure to construction innovation, industrialized construction, modular delivery, or transformation initiatives at scale.
• Experience engaging senior executive committees and securing approval for strategic frameworks.
• Strong understanding of programme governance, stage-gate processes, and cross-functional integration.
• Track record interfacing with contractors, manufacturers, consultants, and supply chain ecosystems.