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About InnovationTeam and the Senior Project Manager Role

InnovationTeam is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of strategic software and IT services engagements for key customers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role requires 5-10 years of relevant experience and combines delivery leadership, customer relationship management, commercial discipline, and governance.

Role Overview

The Senior Project Manager will be accountable for managing complex, business-critical technology projects from initiation through successful delivery and closure. This involves ensuring alignment with contractual commitments, customer expectations, quality standards, and organizational objectives. The role provides senior-level leadership to multidisciplinary delivery teams, proactively manages project risks and dependencies, and maintains clear, decision-oriented communication with customer executives and internal leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex software development, systems integration, digital transformation, and IT services projects.
• Establish and maintain the project governance framework, ensuring compliance with delivery methodology, stage gates, quality controls, and change management processes.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, quality, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain comprehensive RAID and decision logs, ensuring timely mitigation, escalation, and resolution of project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Lead project-level financial and commercial management, including budget tracking, resource utilization, revenue and cost awareness, milestone acceptance, and identification of contractual exposure.
• Enforce formal change control and ensure additional customer requirements are assessed, estimated, approved, and commercially addressed before execution.
• Manage cross-functional teams comprising software engineering, quality assurance, DevOps, architecture, business analysis, UX/UI, infrastructure, security, and third-party vendors.
• Provide leadership and direction to Project Managers, workstream leads, technical leads, and delivery team members where applicable.
• Apply appropriate SDLC and delivery methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches, according to project and contractual requirements.
• Ensure appropriate application of CI/CD, release management, configuration management, testing, and production deployment practices.
• Lead customer governance meetings, executive reviews, SteerCo presentations, status reporting, and escalation discussions.
• Translate complex technical and delivery information into clear, concise, and decision-ready communication for executive stakeholders.
• Manage customer expectations, maintain strong working relationships, and drive timely decisions, approvals, and deliverable acceptance.
• Coordinate resource planning with PMO, Operations, Engineering, and supporting functions, proactively addressing capacity gaps and delivery constraints.
• Ensure project documentation, customer approvals, acceptance records, and contractual evidence are complete and properly maintained.
• Drive project recovery plans when delivery deviates from agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, or customer expectations.
• Support project closure, operational handover, lessons learned, and realization of agreed delivery outcomes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of PMO standards, delivery processes, templates, tools, metrics, and governance practices.
• Support pre-sales and commercial teams when required by contributing to delivery approaches, estimates, assumptions, risks, resource plans, and transition strategies.

Required Experience and Skills

• 10 years of experience in leading end-to-end delivery of strategic software and IT services engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, business-critical technology projects from initiation through successful delivery and closure.
• Proven senior-level leadership for multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Expertise in establishing project governance frameworks and ensuring compliance with delivery methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, hybrid).
• Strong capabilities in project financial and commercial management, risk management, and change control.
• Excellent communication skills for executive stakeholders and customer relationship management.

Work Requirements

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Candidates should have a maximum one-month notice period. The role may require on-site customer engagement and travel within Saudi Arabia based on project requirements.

Application Process

InnovationTeam invites qualified candidates to apply for this role.