Senior Project Manager - Property Development

Job Snapshot

Role:
Senior Project Manager
- Property Development

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction

Function:
Project Management

Experience:

Minimum 15 years of progressive project management experience

Job Type: Full-time

Senior Project Manager
- Property Development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Construction opportunity focused on the end-to-end delivery of complex property assets across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover. Parsons is hiring an experienced project leader to manage multi-disciplinary packages covering hospitality, mixed-use, commercial, entertainment, or sports-related developments while maintaining control of schedule, budget, quality, risk, stakeholder interfaces, and operational readiness.

Country:
Saudi Arabia

City:
Riyadh

Industry: Construction

Function:
Project Management

Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any

Candidate Nationality:
Any

Job Type: Full-time

The Senior Project Manager will lead complex property-related work packages from concept through final occupancy, coordinating architecture, civil, structural, MEP, infrastructure, specialist systems, commercial, procurement, and operations interfaces. The role will provide the governance, decision-making structure, and delivery discipline needed to keep multiple concurrent packages aligned with project objectives. Strong leadership across consultants, contractors, authorities, and internal stakeholders will be essential to managing design maturity, commercial change, construction risk, and final asset readiness.

• Lead planning, execution, monitoring, control, and closeout of assigned property development packages.
• Develop integrated project plans covering scope, Work Breakdown Structure, milestones, schedules, resources, dependencies, and delivery priorities.
• Maintain clear accountability for schedule, cost, quality, safety, and technical performance.
• Establish project governance arrangements, reporting cycles, escalation routes, and decision-making processes.
• Coordinate architecture, structural, civil, MEP, infrastructure, public realm, and specialist systems work streams.
• Lead multidisciplinary coordination meetings and drive closure of technical and interface issues.
• Manage interfaces between individual property assets, utilities, external infrastructure, access, and surrounding public realm.
• Coordinate design consultants to ensure design completeness, constructability, compliance, and alignment with project requirements.
• Review design progress and highlight missing information, unresolved interfaces, or late deliverables that could affect procurement or construction.
• Lead value engineering exercises while protecting operational performance, quality, maintainability, and design intent.
• Manage technical submissions and formal design review processes.
• Control design modifications and variations through approved change management procedures.
• Ensure design deliverables are issued in accordance with agreed schedules and procurement requirements.
• Support preparation of consultant, contractor, supplier, and specialist procurement strategies.
• Coordinate with Commercial and Contracts teams during tendering, technical evaluation, negotiation, and contract award.
• Monitor contractual performance and support administration of variations, claims, and commercial obligations.
• Oversee construction activities across multiple simultaneous packages.
• Review site progress, productivity, sequencing, access, logistics, and contractor performance.
• Work with contractors and Planning teams to recover delays and address emerging delivery constraints.
• Ensure construction activities meet project safety, environmental, technical, and quality requirements.
• Act as a primary coordination point for internal and external stakeholders across assigned packages.
• Liaise with Development, Design, Operations, Commercial, Finance, Legal, and other internal departments.
• Coordinate with external authorities, utility providers, consultants, contractors, and specialist stakeholders.
• Prepare clear progress reports, dashboards, presentations, and decision papers for senior management.
• Maintain project risk registers and ensure major risks have assigned mitigation actions and accountable owners.
• Identify technical, commercial, schedule, interface, and delivery risks before they materially affect project outcomes.
• Monitor implementation of quality assurance and quality control requirements across design and construction.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, project standards, contractual requirements, and relevant international practices.
• Lead resolution of significant project issues and elevate matters requiring executive intervention.
• Manage competing priorities across several packages while maintaining alignment with overall program milestones.
• Coordinate testing, commissioning, snagging, rectification, and…