Coordination Manager (Program & Interface)

About the Role

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Coordination Manager (Program & Interface) to lead complex, multi-stakeholder programs on behalf of a client in Al Madinah, specifically in Al Ula and Medina. This full-time role requires an experienced professional to operate as a client-side leader, driving delivery, integration, governance, and decision-making across multiple workstreams. The successful candidate will independently lead and coordinate initiatives, manage interfaces across numerous stakeholders, anticipate risks, and proactively resolve issues to ensure successful program outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall planning, coordination, and delivery of strategic programs and projects.
• Act as the central integration point across multiple workstreams.
• Establish and maintain program governance, reporting structures, decision-making processes, and escalation mechanisms.
• Drive alignment between strategic objectives, delivery plans, budgets, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure dependencies, interfaces, risks, and opportunities are proactively identified and managed.
• Manage complex interfaces across multiple projects and disciplines, coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Monitor program performance, schedule, risks, issues, and delivery milestones.
• Lead problem-solving and decision-making across organizational boundaries.
• Operate as a client-side representative, providing leadership, challenge, and direction to RCU stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, recommendations, reports, and presentations, supporting leadership in strategic decision-making.
• Lead organizational and operational transition initiatives, including workforce mobilization and relocation programs.
• Coordinate staff transfers and integration activities across locations, overseeing related program workstreams such as staff well-being, accommodation, transportation, aviation, education, healthcare, and stakeholder engagement.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with client leadership, government entities, consultants, contractors, and service providers.
• Facilitate workshops, steering committees, governance meetings, and executive reviews.
• Manage complex stakeholder environments and competing priorities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience (5-10 years) leading large, complex, multi-stakeholder programs.
• Strong background in integration management, interface management, and governance.
• Proven ability to operate independently and lead senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in client-side organizations, PMOs, major development programs, or government environments.
• Strong commercial, contractual, and risk management awareness.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience within Saudi Arabia and/or large public-sector transformation programs.
• Experience supporting organizational transitions, relocations, operational readiness, or mobilization programs.
• Experience working with executive leadership and C-suite stakeholders.

Personal Attributes

• Strategic thinker with strong execution capability.
• Confident and decisive leader, able to drive outcomes with minimal direction.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity and complexity.
• Highly collaborative while maintaining accountability and ownership.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Solution-oriented, proactive, and commercially aware.