Project Manager, Project & Program Management, Operations Management

Innovation Starts With You

Propel your career at Belden, where innovation creates possibilities-for our people, our customers, and the communities we serve. We connect people, information, and ideas to solve the world's most complex connectivity challenges, turning curiosity into meaningful impact. Here, you'll take on work that challenges you, supports your growth, and empowers you to shape what's next. You'll collaborate with global teams, gain diverse perspectives, and contribute to solutions that extend beyond our business-creating value in the world around us.

Together, we are shaping the future of digitization and paving the way for the next generation of innovation.

• Place: Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
• Type: In-office role, full-time
• Level: Medior

As Project Manager EMEA, you will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex customer projects across the MEA region, with a strong focus on National Grid Saudi. Working closely with cross-functional teams, customers, and external partners, you will ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. This role is ideal for a collaborative and results-driven project professional with experience in industrial and energy verticals, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic international environment.

• Lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of complex turnkey and milestone-based projects across the MEA region, with a primary focus on projects for National Grid Saudi, ensuring delivery within scope, budget, timeline, and quality expectations.
• Coordinate closely with Solution Sales, Solution Consultants, Operations, customers, and third-party suppliers to gather inputs, manage deliverables, allocate resources, and achieve project milestones across industrial and energy verticals.
• Own project financial performance, including budgets, margins, cash flow, and resource planning, while taking corrective actions as needed to maintain project viability and success.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders through proactive communication, effective expectation management, and structured reporting on project progress, risks, issues, and changes.
• Drive quality, risk, and change management throughout the full project lifecycle, while ensuring smooth project closure, handover, and capture of lessons learned for continuous improvement.

• Project management expertise - You have 5+ years of project management experience leading complex turnkey or milestone-based customer projects in industrial environments, ideally within energy verticals or related critical infrastructure sectors. Experience working with National Grid Saudi is a strong asset.
• Technical and educational background - You hold a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, ideally with a focus on OT/IT networking in vertical markets such as power utilities, mass transit, discrete manufacturing, and other energy verticals. Experience with multi-vendor industrial application projects is highly valued.
• Tools and organizational capability - You are experienced in project management and CRM tools, including Salesforce, and can effectively manage multiple tasks, priorities, and stakeholder expectations in a matrix organization.
• Communication and collaboration skills - You are a strong team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to work effectively across cross-functional teams, customers, and external partners. Fluency in both Arabic and English, written and spoken, is mandatory.
• Professional mindset and flexibility - You bring a structured, proactive, and quality-focused approach to project delivery, with the ability to manage risk, change, and financial performance, and you are willing to travel domestically and internationally across the MEA region as required.

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Join a global community shaping the future of intelligent connectivity. At Belden, you'll help push the boundaries of technology and write the next chapter of innovation, creating possibilities for your career, your future, and the world around you.

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