Manager - Risk - SDU-100 - DA3

About the Role

Qiddiya is building a landmark destination for entertainment, sport, and culture in Saudi Arabia. Spread across 360 km² near Riyadh, the development includes world-class racetracks, theme parks, stadiums, and live performance venues. This is a large-scale national transformation effort, and the team is looking for experienced professionals who want to contribute to a project with major impact.

Role Summary

The Risk Manager will help SDU embed, maintain, and strengthen the Risk Management Framework across all business units. The position focuses on building risk capability, improving governance compliance, and reinforcing a strong risk culture across the organisation. Now that the core systems and procedures are in place, the emphasis is on rolling out the framework more broadly, supporting adoption, validating compliance, and improving how risk information is captured and used.

A major part of the role is safeguarding the quality and consistency of risk data stored in risk systems so it can be accurately consolidated and reported through the Enterprise Risk Management framework. The role also supports business units in expressing risks clearly and maintaining documentation that stands up to internal and external audit review.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and roll out a risk training and awareness programme that improves understanding of risk principles, responsibilities, and framework requirements across the organisation.
• Lead capability-building activities that raise risk literacy within business units and support consistent application of the Risk Management Framework in line with the organisation’s risk appetite.
• Support governance, compliance, and audit-readiness activities by monitoring framework adherence, tracking reporting, and driving continual improvement in control effectiveness.
• Provide practical, hands-on support to smaller or less mature business units, including help with embedding risk practices, creating risk registers, and strengthening identification and mitigation processes.
• Use advanced academic knowledge to develop technical risk content, learning materials, and thought leadership that strengthens the capability of the wider risk community.
• Apply expertise in insurance risk and development risk management to align the insurance function with broader governance, risk, and compliance objectives.
• Create and implement project risk management plans tailored to each stage of the project lifecycle.
• Lead risk identification and assessment workshops and interviews across engineering, construction, and operations to uncover potential exposures.
• Maintain a structured approach for checking the quality, completeness, and consistency of risks recorded in ARM against enterprise standards.
• Work directly with business units to review risk entries and ensure they are written clearly, concisely, and in the correct risk management language.
• Coach teams on how to capture risk statements, causes, impacts, controls, and mitigations effectively.
• Support ongoing maintenance of risk records in ARM and update entries directly when needed to preserve accuracy and data quality.
• Identify recurring issues in risk data and drive improvements in how users identify and document risks.
• Carry out qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including Monte Carlo simulations in SAFRAN, to assess cost and schedule impacts and inform contingency planning.
• Track training and development delivery, and provide status and forecast updates to senior leadership.
• Prepare structured risk dashboards and reports for senior leaders, highlighting trends, progress, performance, and forecasts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Construction Management, Business Studies, or a closely related discipline.
• 8 to 10 years of experience in risk management.
• At least 5 years of that experience must be in mega-project construction or development environments.

Additional Information

Applications close on 12 June 2026.