Role Purpose

The Executive Director – MMC & Delivery Learning Systems is responsible for institutionalising innovation and structured learning across the Qiddiya City Programme.

The role leads two strategic programme enablers:

1. Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) – to enhance productivity, scalability, quality consistency, safety, and delivery predictability.
2. Delivery Learning & Knowledge Systems – to reduce systemic repeat failures, accelerate decision-making, and embed institutional delivery intelligence across Business Units (BUs).

Operating at programme scale, the role ensures that Qiddiya moves from fragmented project-based execution toward structured, repeatable, and performance-driven delivery systems.

Strategic Mandate

A. Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)

• Define and steer Qiddiya’s MMC ambition, roadmap, and governance framework.
• Identify scalable MMC opportunities across asset typologies.
• Establish standards, decision pathways, and adoption frameworks to enable BU implementation.
• Align with Procurement and Supply Chain to support manufacturing agreements and market feasibility.
• Translate pilot outcomes into institutionalised standards and repeatable playbooks.
• Monitor measurable impact on cost, schedule, quality, HSE, and sustainability performance.

The role does not replace BU delivery accountability; it enables structured and scalable adoption across the programme.

Delivery Learning & Knowledge Systems

• Establish and govern a structured delivery knowledge-sharing system across the Qiddiya programme.
• Institutionalise lessons learned, best practices, and repeatable standards.
• Create cross-BU transparency mechanisms to reduce duplication and rework.
• Implement structured feedback loops between Delivery, Logistics, Engineering, Procurement, and Commercial functions.
• Embed a culture of constructive transparency, where learning accelerates performance rather than assigning blame.

Knowledge sharing is positioned as a performance accelerator and delivery control mechanism — not documentation.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide executive leadership for MMC and Delivery Learning initiatives in alignment with SDU mandate and TOM.
• Translate systemic delivery risks and recurring failure patterns into structured institutional solutions.
• Secure executive alignment and approvals for frameworks, governance models, and scaling strategies.
• Ensure integration across Delivery, Procurement, Engineering/Design, Logistics, Commercial, and Digital functions.
• Drive measurable improvements in delivery predictability, productivity, and cross-BU coordination.

Success Measures

MMC

• Demonstrable adoption of MMC solutions on eligible assets.
• Improved schedule confidence and delivery consistency.
• Established supplier/manufacturing pathways supporting scalable adoption.
• Measurable performance gains on pilot implementations.

Delivery Learning

• Reduction in repeat systemic issues and avoidable rework.
• Increased cross-BU coordination and visibility.
• Sustained platform adoption and knowledge reuse.
• Faster issue resolution cycles across delivery ecosystem.

Stakeholder Environment

Internal:
SDU Leadership; BU Delivery Directors; CDU/Implementation; Engineering/Design; Procurement & Supply Chain; Logistics; Commercial/Contracts; Digital/IT; People & Culture.

External:
Delivery partners; Tier 1 contractors; modular/offsite manufacturers; technology providers; specialist consultants; supply chain ecosystem.

Requirements

Profile Requirements

This role requires a senior international development and delivery executive with demonstrated experience leading major programmes or large-scale master developments.

Experience

• Minimum 18 years’ progressive experience in international real estate development, infrastructure, or complex construction environments.
• Proven leadership in multi-asset or giga-project settings with concurrent project portfolios.
• Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments (e.g., national transformation or large urban developments).
• Demonstrated exposure to construction innovation, industrialised construction, modular delivery, or transformation initiatives at scale.
• Experience engaging senior executive committees and securing approval for strategic frameworks.
• Strong understanding of programme governance, stage-gate processes, and cross-functional integration.
• Track record interfacing with contractors, manufacturers, consultants, and supply chain ecosystems.

Role Positioning Summary

This is a programme capability and transformation role designed to:

• Enable scalable construction innovation (MMC).
• Institutionalise delivery learning across Business Units.
• Improve predictability and performance at programme scale.

The Executive Director operates as a strategic enabler — strengthening delivery maturity, governance capability, and structured transparency across the Qiddiya City Programme.

Benefits

Attractive compensations and benefits package