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About Khatib & Alami

Khatib & Alami is seeking a Senior Project Manager (Sports Facilities) to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to the planning, design management, and delivery of major sports and recreation projects.

Role Summary

The Senior Project Manager will lead the execution of significant sports and recreation developments, including stadiums, arenas, training facilities, sports complexes, and associated infrastructure. This position involves coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, specialist sports consultants, clients, operators, authorities, and other stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, from mobilization through design, tender, and closeout phases.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall planning, management, and delivery of sports-facility design projects in line with contractual scope, programme, budget, quality, and client requirements.
• Act as the primary point of contact for the client, managing expectations, priorities, approvals, decisions, and key project interfaces.
• Coordinate architectural, structural, MEP, infrastructure, landscape, ICT, security, acoustics, lighting, signage, broadcasting, and specialist sports-design disciplines.
• Establish and maintain the Project Management Plan, design programme, deliverables schedule or MIDP, responsibility matrix, risk register, and project-reporting requirements.
• Lead coordination of sports-specific design requirements, including spectator experience, athlete facilities, back-of-house operations, crowd circulation, accessibility, safety, security, broadcasting, and event operations.
• Monitor design progress against the approved baseline programme and implement recovery or acceleration measures where required.
• Lead design coordination meetings and ensure the timely resolution of technical, interdisciplinary, client, authority, and operational issues.
• Manage project resources, workload, and team performance in coordination with discipline leads and management.
• Maintain control over project budgets, man-hours, profitability, invoicing, changes, additional services, and variation orders.
• Coordinate with sports governing bodies, venue operators, specialist consultants, approving entities, and authorities where applicable.
• Ensure compliance with QA/QC, BIM, document-control procedures, client standards, local regulations, and relevant sports-facility requirements.
• Identify and manage design, commercial, contractual, programme, crowd-safety, operational, and delivery risks.
• Support tender-stage activities, including bidder queries, design clarifications, technical evaluations, and procurement support.
• Ensure timely project closeout, completion of deliverables, and resolution of outstanding client comments.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience of 5-10 years managing the design and delivery of stadiums, arenas, training facilities, sports complexes, or other major sports and recreation developments.
• Strong experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and specialist sports, venue-operations, security, technology, broadcast, and crowd-management consultants.
• Strong understanding of sports-facility planning, including spectator and athlete flows, back-of-house requirements, accessibility, security, operational readiness, and event-day requirements.
• Proven commercial awareness, including budget, man-hour, profitability, variation, and change-management control.

Desirable Attributes

• Experience on FIFA-compliant facilities, World Cup, Olympic, international tournament, or other major-event venues is a strong advantage.
• Saudi Arabia or GCC experience, including familiarity with local clients, authorities, and approvals, is highly desirable.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Qualified candidates are invited to apply.