Services & Data Solutions Senior Director📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Takamol Holding is seeking a Services & Data Solutions Senior Director to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position involves leading the product and service portfolio, from market discovery and strategy through commercialization, growth, and delivery. The role focuses on technology-enabled services, digital products, and data solutions for government and public-sector clients. The Senior Director reports directly to the EVP of the Socio-Economic Development Unit and requires strong product and portfolio management experience, combined with business development, pre-sales, and delivery capabilities.

Portfolio Leadership and Strategy

The Services & Data Solutions Senior Director will lead the vertical in alignment with unit strategy, defining and managing a comprehensive portfolio of technology-enabled services, digital products, and data solutions. This includes owning the portfolio strategy, market positioning, prioritization, investment decisions, and growth plans. The role requires translating government and client needs into scalable, commercially viable product and service opportunities.

• Define and manage a portfolio of technology-enabled services, digital products, and data solutions.
• Develop product and service strategies, roadmaps, business cases, pricing models, and go-to-market plans.
• Lead the full product and service lifecycle, from market discovery and concept development to launch, scaling, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the development of digital services, citizen platforms, analytics dashboards, data products, automation solutions, and AI-enabled tools.
• Utilize market research, customer feedback, competitive analysis, and product performance data to guide portfolio and investment decisions.

Client Engagement and Delivery Oversight

This role involves significant client interaction, business development support, and oversight of solution delivery. The Senior Director will build strategic relationships with key stakeholders and ensure successful program execution.

• Lead pre-sales and solution development activities, including RFP responses, proposals, tenders, workshops, and client presentations.
• Partner with business development and commercial teams to identify, shape, and secure opportunities within government and public-sector markets.
• Develop clear value propositions connecting client needs, product capabilities, and expected business outcomes.
• Build strategic relationships with senior government stakeholders, clients, technology providers, and delivery partners.
• Work closely with solution architects and technical teams to shape feasible, scalable, secure, and compliant solutions.
• Oversee the delivery of complex products, services, and data programs within agreed scope, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Establish product and delivery governance, quality controls, risk management practices, and performance reporting.
• Monitor product adoption, client satisfaction, service quality, revenue, profitability, and realized business outcomes.

Team Leadership and Capability Building

The Senior Director is responsible for leading and developing multidisciplinary teams and building robust product management capabilities within the vertical, contributing to the unit’s financial performance.

• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, including product managers, solution architects, business analysts, data specialists, and delivery managers.
• Build required product management capabilities, processes, tools, and governance for the Service and Data Solutions vertical.
• Contribute to revenue growth, pipeline development, portfolio performance, budget management, and the unit’s P&L.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role must possess over 10 years of proven experience in relevant fields, demonstrating strong leadership and strategic capabilities in product and service management.

• Proven experience leading product and service portfolios, including strategy, prioritization, roadmaps, lifecycle management, launch, scaling, and performance management.
• Strong experience in product discovery, customer research, market analysis, competitive analysis, value proposition development, and go-to-market planning.
• Demonstrated experience in new product or service development, commercialization, pricing, and portfolio growth.
• Strong experience in business development, commercial growth, strategic partnerships, client engagement, or revenue-generating roles.
• Experience in pre-sales, RFPs, tenders, proposals, solution presentations, and client workshops.
• Proven experience working with government, public-sector, or large enterprise clients.
• Demonstrated experience managing technology-enabled products, digital services, business solutions, or service portfolios.
• Experience contributing to revenue targets, commercial performance, business cases, budgeting, profitability, or P&L.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• Good commercial and functional understanding of cloud, data, analytics, integration, cybersecurity, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Ability to work effectively with technical teams and solution architects to shape client solutions and translate technical capabilities into business value.
• Awareness of data privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, and government technology requirements.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex stakeholder, vendor, and partner environments.
• Strong government stakeholder engagement, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Strong product ownership, strategic thinking, commercial awareness, customer focus, and delivery orientation.
• Ability to balance customer needs, product strategy, commercial growth, technical feasibility, and delivery requirements.