Senior Project Manager - Golf Course Specialist - Saudi National

Project and role

Golf course and project delivery

• Lead end-to-end golf course delivery from strategy and mobilization through procurement, construction, grow-in, handover, and closeout.
• Integrate design, shaping, drainage, irrigation, turf, landscaping, and facilities to protect quality, playability, and operational performance.
• Manage delivery from project inception and brief through design development, planning, contractor procurement, construction, and agreed milestones.
• Lead project teams, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders to achieve strategic KPIs and timely, accurate deliverables.
• Drive governance, controls, risk, cost, programme, and reporting discipline; manage budgets and commercial performance and identify risks and mitigations.
• Coordinate design-to-construction interfaces, grow-in strategy, clubhouse and facilities interfaces, maintenance facility readiness, transition, commissioning, and closeout.

Safety, quality, and collaboration

• Champion safety, wellbeing, inclusivity, sustainability, and responsible delivery across projects.
• Apply local health and safety rules, model safety behaviours, and share lessons learned to support staff wellbeing.
• Ensure robust quality systems are established and managed in line with service excellence and design intent.
• Align stakeholders and collaborate with senior leaders, project teams, and clients to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Share best practice, innovate, and support continuous improvement and sustainable development of the function or business unit.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, landscape architecture, turfgrass management, agronomy, project management, or a related discipline.
• Extensive progressive experience in golf course development, sports infrastructure, resort or leisure destinations, landscape construction, civil infrastructure, public realm, hospitality, or capital programme delivery.
• Senior project management experience leading complex golf course or landscape-led packages, multidisciplinary teams, consultants, and specialist contractors in live delivery environments.
• Track record in course construction, earthworks, shaping, irrigation, drainage, turf establishment, agronomy coordination, water management, landscape delivery, procurement support, contract administration, and executive reporting.
• Experience with design-to-construction interfaces, grow-in, facilities readiness, operational transition, commissioning, and closeout is preferred.

Technical and professional qualifications

• Professional English proficiency is required; Arabic is advantageous for authority, local stakeholder, or regional delivery coordination.
• Advanced capability in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Power BI or equivalent dashboards, document control, risk registers, collaboration platforms, and project management information systems.
• A master’s degree, PMP, PRINCE2, APM, chartered or professional registration, or golf course construction, irrigation, agronomy, or turf management certification is preferred.
• Familiarity with golf course design documentation, irrigation design tools, QA/QC records, field reporting platforms, and site-based delivery systems is advantageous.
• A valid driving licence and site access eligibility may be required.

Leadership capabilities

• Strategic judgment and senior stakeholder influence; calm, evidence-based decision-making under pressure.
• Strong ownership, accountability, and delivery discipline.
• Collaborative leadership across multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
• Clear communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and escalation management.
• Significant golf course project management experience and proven leadership of multidisciplinary teams, consultants, and contractors.

Working arrangements

• The posting describes site-based delivery work and says part-time, flexible, and hybrid options may be discussed if suitable for the role.

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