Planning Manager
Role Overview
Mace provides strategic project management consultancy for major new-build stadiums, stadium redevelopments, and precinct transformations in Riyadh.
The programme includes new stadiums, increased capacity at existing stadia, mixed-use amenities, and knowledge transfer to support long-term operational excellence and sustainability.
The Planning Manager supports planning for medium-complexity projects, portfolios, or sections of larger programmes.
Key Skills for This Role
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Project and role
Mace provides strategic project management consultancy for major new-build stadiums, stadium redevelopments, and precinct transformations in Riyadh.
The programme includes new stadiums, increased capacity at existing stadia, mixed-use amenities, and knowledge transfer to support long-term operational excellence and sustainability.
The Planning Manager supports planning for medium-complexity projects, portfolios, or sections of larger programmes.
Responsibilities
- Ensure projects and tenders are planned, scheduled, and monitored through defined processes.
- Collaborate with project teams to drive timely, profitable delivery and agreed outcomes.
- Champion safety, wellbeing, inclusivity, and responsible delivery.
- Deliver projects through clear planning, quality systems, and stakeholder collaboration.
- Supervise change and commercial performance with integrity.
- Lead teams to achieve KPIs and share best practice.
- Develop integrated plans that account for site, logistics, and programme constraints.
- Track progress, productivity, deadlines, and reporting obligations.
- Build trusted client, stakeholder, and delivery-team relationships.
- Embed safety, sustainability, and carbon reduction throughout delivery.
Experience and qualifications
- Competent in producing programmes and sequence plans with minimal supervision.
- Intermediate software skills and ability to produce schedule outputs in suitable formats.
- Established experience in the built environment and with projects.
- Understand procurement routes, contract types, and forms of contract.
- Basic understanding of RIBA stages and exposure to contract principles or use.
- Respond effectively and sensitively to client and stakeholder requests.
- Communicate and present programme drivers, goals, and issues to project teams.
- Working toward a professional qualification such as CIOB, APM, or PMI; other locally relevant qualifications are also requested.
Work arrangements
- The posting identifies the role as on-site.
- Part-time, flexible, and hybrid options may be discussed if suitable for the role.
Mace values
Mace emphasizes safety, wellbeing, client focus, integrity, opportunity, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
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