Senior Project Manager - Entertainment Programs

Senior Project Manager
- Entertainment Programs Job Snapshot Role:
Senior Project Manager
- Entertainment Programs

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function:
Program / Project Management

Experience:

Minimum 15 years of relevant large-scale project delivery experience, including senior project or program management responsibility Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Senior Project Manager
- Entertainment Programs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Construction opportunity focused on leading complex entertainment districts, mixed-use destinations, transportation, utilities, infrastructure, and community development packages from concept through operational readiness. Parsons is hiring an experienced senior project leader to integrate multiple concurrent work streams, control schedule and cost performance, manage contractors and stakeholders, and ensure major developments achieve safety, quality, commercial, and delivery objectives.

Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Construction Function:
Program / 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

Role Context The Senior Project Manager will provide leadership across a portfolio of interconnected development packages where entertainment destinations must integrate successfully with roads, transportation systems, utilities, residential communities, public infrastructure, and future operations. The role will convert strategic development objectives into coordinated execution plans while maintaining control of technical interfaces, budgets, schedules, risks, procurement, construction performance, stakeholder approvals, commissioning, and handover.

• Lead planning, governance, execution, and delivery of major development projects from concept through construction, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness.
• Develop program execution strategies, implementation plans, delivery roadmaps, and management frameworks.
• Establish measurable performance objectives covering scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, risk, and operational readiness.
• Maintain alignment between assigned projects and broader program and organizational objectives.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, packages, contractors, and technical work streams within a wider development portfolio.
• Prioritize project resources and resolve dependencies between entertainment, infrastructure, transportation, residential, and utility packages.
• Coordinate interfaces between major entertainment destinations and surrounding civil and community infrastructure.
• Maintain integrated delivery across transport corridors, utilities, public access, residential areas, and operational assets.
• Develop and control master schedules, phasing strategies, key milestones, and critical delivery dates.
• Coordinate with Planning and Project Controls teams to monitor progress and identify schedule threats.
• Review project performance trends and initiate recovery or mitigation actions where required.
• Ensure important dependencies are reflected accurately in project and program schedules.
• Oversee project budgeting and cost management.
• Review estimates, forecasts, expenditure, contingencies, and emerging cost pressures.
• Support value engineering initiatives that improve value without compromising operational requirements or guest experience.
• Maintain visibility of approved budgets, forecast completion costs, and significant financial risks.
• Establish robust risk and issue management processes.
• Lead identification, quantification, mitigation, monitoring, and escalation of project risks.
• Develop contingency strategies for high-impact technical, commercial, stakeholder, and delivery risks.
• Ensure risk responses have clear ownership and realistic completion dates.
• Coordinate architects, engineers, design consultants, and specialist technical teams.
• Ensure design solutions satisfy project functionality, entertainment operations, infrastructure interfaces, regulatory requirements, and constructability.
• Review and approve significant technical deliverables within delegated authority.
• Lead multidisciplinary design reviews and resolve interfaces affecting multiple packages.
• Monitor design development against procurement and construction requirements.
• Support alternative analyses where technical or commercial options require senior evaluation.
• Ensure project components comply with relevant Saudi regulations, authority requirements, codes, and standards.
• Coordinate approvals with regulators, municipalities, utilities, and other public-sector stakeholders.
• Lead construction delivery planning across entertainment districts, infrastructure, transportation corridors, residential areas, and utilities.
• Establish site-wide coordination strategies where several contractors are operating simultaneously.
• Oversee construction sequencing and package interfaces.
• Monitor contractor productivity, resources,…