Senior Stakeholder Manager, Data Center Projects

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:

Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.

Decima is where you can pursue a long and rewarding career working with high-profile clients on some of the most challenging projects in the world. You will be able to explore incredible growth and professional development opportunities.

We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated Stakeholder Manager to lead stakeholder coordination and engagement activities for a large-scale data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This client-facing role requires strong communication, coordination, and relationship management skills, with a focus on ensuring effective alignment between internal teams, clients, authorities, consultants, contractors, and other key project stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of stakeholder management within large-scale construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical projects and will be capable of managing complex interfaces across multiple parties throughout the project lifecycle.

You will play a key role in supporting project delivery by maintaining clear communication channels, managing stakeholder expectations, resolving interface challenges, and ensuring that approvals, permits, decisions, and project requirements are properly coordinated and tracked.

• Lead stakeholder management and coordination activities across the project, ensuring effective communication and alignment between all internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and update the stakeholder engagement plan, stakeholder register, communication matrix, and interface tracking tools.
• Identify key project stakeholders, including client representatives, government authorities, utility providers, consultants, contractors, vendors, local entities, and internal project teams.
• Manage day-to-day stakeholder communications, ensuring that project updates, requirements, decisions, risks, and actions are clearly communicated and documented.
• Coordinate with project managers, design teams, construction teams, consultants, contractors, and client representatives to resolve stakeholder-related issues and support project progress.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, coordination sessions, and progress reviews, ensuring clear agendas, action items, ownership, and follow-up.
• Track approvals, permits, authority submissions, NOCs, design reviews, technical decisions, and other stakeholder-dependent project deliverables.
• Monitor stakeholder concerns, constraints, and expectations, escalating critical matters to project leadership when required.
• Support interface management between different project disciplines, contractors, vendors, authorities, and client-side teams.
• Ensure stakeholder requirements are properly captured, communicated, and reflected in project plans, schedules, reports, and delivery strategies.
• Prepare regular stakeholder reports, dashboards, action trackers, meeting minutes, and executive summaries for project leadership and client review.
• Support the resolution of conflicts, communication gaps, and coordination challenges between project stakeholders.
• Coordinate with project controls, risk, commercial, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure stakeholder-related impacts are identified and managed.
• Maintain accurate records of stakeholder engagement activities, correspondence, commitments, approvals, risks, and decisions.
• Promote a collaborative project environment by building strong working relationships with stakeholders and supporting timely decision-making.

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in stakeholder management,…