Senior Manager Development Hospitality AG📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Senior Manager Development Hospitality AG to lead the early planning and development of hotel and hospitality assets. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh. The role focuses on ensuring that master planning, asset positioning, operator strategy, design requirements, and commercial assumptions are aligned before transitioning into development execution.

Role Context and Purpose

This position is centered on real estate development and asset creation, not hospitality consulting or hotel operations. As several hospitality assets are progressing into early-stage development, dedicated hotel development expertise is required to align stakeholders, define each asset, establish viable project assumptions, and position assets for successful delivery and long-term operational performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead hotel and hospitality assets from concept, feasibility, and positioning through project definition and development readiness.
• Translate the destination vision and master plan into clear hospitality asset strategies, development briefs, scope, and delivery requirements.
• Define hotel type, classification, brand positioning, target market, room mix, amenities, and guest experience in line with market demand.
• Lead market assessments, feasibility studies, business cases, development budgets, and financial assumptions with investment and finance teams.
• Drive hotel operator and brand selection, including RFPs, proposal evaluation, commercial assessment, and support for management agreement negotiations.
• Coordinate architects, designers, project managers, technical specialists, and operators to embed operational requirements into the design.
• Manage development risks, key decisions, approvals, schedules, and stakeholder alignment before handover to execution teams.

Experience Requirements

Candidates for this role should possess between 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in hotel and hospitality asset development.

Location and Employment Type

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, Riyadh.

Application Process

The salary for this position will be disclosed during the application process.