Senior Manager - Destination Operations Planning

The Red Sea Development Company

Job Responsibilities

Project Management & Leadership

• Drive end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of multi-modular projects across multiple departments and stakeholders.
• Manage timelines, budgets, resources, and scope while ensuring alignment with strategic business goals.
• Lead cross-functional teams, ensuring cohesive collaboration between business, technology, procurement, and finance workstreams.
• Lead the coordination of the development of the business requirement and processes with the business to drive the business requirements, which in turn drive the selection, implementation, and set up of business systems and process to deliver a robust operational tool that is fit for purpose.

Business Requirements Management

• Gather, document, and prioritize business needs from stakeholders across modules.
• Translate business requirements into actionable plans and coordinate cross-functional implementation.
• Identify and understand business challenges; propose and create solutions.
• Prepare and collate accurate reporting for senior management relating to aspects of business performance.

Technology Coordination

• Work closely with technical leads and solution architects to ensure appropriate systems design, development, integration, and testing.
• Ensure that technical deliverables align with the business needs and security/compliance standards.

Procurement Oversight

• Oversee the procurement lifecycle related to the project (e.g., vendor evaluation, RFP/RFQ processes, contract negotiation).
• Collaborate with procurement teams to ensure timely acquisition of goods/services within budget.

Data & Accounting Alignment

• Collaborate with accounting and finance teams to ensure appropriate data flows, cost tracking, and financial reporting.
• Ensure project activities align with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and financial audit standards.
• Drive data accuracy, reconciliation, and integrity across systems and modules.

Risk & Issue Management

• Proactively identify risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Maintain documentation and communication of risks, decisions, and resolutions across stakeholders.

Stakeholder Communication

• Maintain clear, consistent communication with project sponsors, leadership, and key stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates on project status, KPIs, financial performance, and strategic alignment.
• Carry out additional tasks and responsibilities as directed from time to time.

Policies, Systems, Processes, Procedures, Standards, Reports & Compliance

• Follow all relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions to ensure that work that will be delivered from operations and the systems is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Ensure adherence to internal financial policies, procedures, and controls to safeguard the organization s assets.
• Conduct periodic reviews and testing to assess the effectiveness of the reporting and any required financial controls to ensure the accuracy of the system output and reporting.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of the department s systems, processes and practices considering international best practice , improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.

Team Leadership & Development

• Mentor colleagues and be a role model for continuous improvement in skills and performance.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and efficiency within the Mobility department and across other business functions.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with other departments (e.g., procurement, HR and operations) to ensure financial alignment with organizational objectives.
• Communicate financial results and key performance indicators (KPIs) to stakeholders, both internally and externally, in a clear and concise manner

Skills

• Strong desire to establish and learn in a new environment and to shape the future of the Operations by applying a continuous improvement mindset
• Excellent communicator with the ability to interact with various management levels
• Experience in managing modular or phased business transformation projects.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements.
• Adept at simplifying complexity and driving clarity across functional boundaries.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to partner with accounting teams on project costing, budgeting, and reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully handle multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture.
• Ability to analyzing, interpret and scrutiny of financial information.
• Should possess organizing capability and have a pleasing, get-going personality.