Project Management Lead - Film Studio (SPA5-50012959)

Role Overview

Project Management Lead - Film Studio at Qiddiya Investment Company. This role reports to and supports the General Manager of the Film Studio asset.

Role Purpose

Serve as the strategic coordination and project management focal point for the Film Studio asset, enabling the General Manager to maintain a single, decision-ready view of executive priorities, strategic initiatives, risks, milestones, and cross-functional actions. Establish disciplined PMO routines, coordinate leadership requests, track implementation progress, and ensure high-quality reporting and decision support across activation and steady-state operations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Oversight & Coordination

• Provide end-to-end oversight of strategic initiatives, executive priorities, and cross-functional projects across the Film Studio asset.
• Manage the General Manager's strategic agenda, leadership priorities, action trackers, decision logs, and executive follow-ups.
• Act as the primary coordination interface between the General Manager, functional teams, shared service stakeholders, consultants, and external parties.
• Coordinate strategic requests from senior leadership and external stakeholders, ensuring timely responses, ownership assignment, and progress visibility.

PMO Governance & Framework

• Establish PMO governance routines, project reporting standards, milestone tracking, and escalation mechanisms.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning discipline, reporting quality, and cross-functional execution effectiveness.
• Maintain centralized records of key initiatives, actions, approvals, and management decisions.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Track project risks, dependencies, issues, decisions, and corrective actions across operational, commercial, financial, and corporate workstreams.
• Monitor implementation progress against approved plans, budgets, timelines, and priority outcomes.
• Identify bottlenecks, unresolved dependencies, and emerging risks requiring leadership intervention.

Executive Reporting & Decision Support

• Prepare executive reports, dashboards, briefing notes, presentations, and decision-support materials for leadership review.
• Review and challenge outputs from teams, consultants, and vendors to ensure they are structured, accurate, and decision-ready.
• Support preparation for board, committee, steering, and executive update meetings where required.

Cross-Functional Facilitation

• Facilitate cross-functional alignment meetings, governance forums, and performance review routines.
• Support strategic planning, business transformation, activation readiness, and operating model implementation initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Economics, Project Management, or related field.
• MBA, Master's degree, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification preferred.

Experience

• 7–10 years of experience in corporate strategy, PMO, project management, transformation, management consulting, or executive office roles.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional programmes and senior stakeholder interactions.
• Experience working with executive leadership, C-suite stakeholders, or senior government and corporate interfaces preferred.
• Experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, PMO, transformation office, entertainment, destination, real estate, or asset activation environments preferred.
• Experience supporting new asset activation, operating model implementation, or strategic programme delivery preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong PMO, project governance, and executive reporting capability.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear leadership insights and recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management, structured problem solving, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with discretion, urgency, and high attention to detail in a senior leadership environment.
• Project governance and strategic coordination.
• Executive communication.
• Risk and issue management.
• Decision support.

Additional Information

Performance Metrics

• Timeliness of executive reports and dashboards.
• Milestone achievement rate for strategic initiatives.
• Closure rate of leadership actions and decisions.
• Accuracy and completeness of risk, issue, and dependency tracking.
• Quality of decision-support materials.
• Stakeholder satisfaction with PMO coordination.
• Reduction in overdue actions and unresolved escalations.