About the Role
This is a unique opportunity to shape a major residential portfolio at a formative stage, allowing for real influence over product, strategy, and development direction within a business that is building something long-term and high-profile. This is a senior client-side development role focused on villas and townhouses. You will lead projects through the critical early and mid-development stages, from development brief, feasibility, and product definition through design management, approvals, procurement strategy, and delivery readiness. This role is ideal for someone with a true developer mindset: commercially minded, comfortable challenging assumptions, and able to balance product, market, design, cost, and program. You will work closely with internal teams and external consultants, requiring the credibility and confidence to represent the business effectively in complex stakeholder environments. Note: This is not a pure project management, pure design, or construction delivery role.
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About Residential
The Residential Business Unit is creating new neighborhoods within one of Saudi Arabia’s most ambitious destination-led developments. The focus is not simply to build housing but to shape high-quality, market-relevant communities that support a long-term residential vision. Within this context, the Villas & Townhouses team is a key part of the product strategy. We are looking for a senior development leader who can help shape, challenge, and drive the development of this portfolio from the front end; ensuring projects are commercially sound, well positioned, and set up for successful delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of development projects from feasibility through delivery readiness
- Define product strategy, unit mix, phasing, and development briefs
- Drive feasibility, business planning, and commercial optimisation
- Manage design, consultants, approvals, and procurement strategy
- Represent the business in key stakeholder discussions
- Improve development processes across the portfolio
Requirements
- Strong client-side residential development experience
- Proven capability across feasibility, product definition, design management, and commercial decision-making
- A true developer mindset, not just project management
- Ability to balance product, design, cost, programme, and profitability
- Strong stakeholder management across consultants, authorities, and senior leadership
- Middle East experience preferred
- Developer backgrounds preferred over pure consultancy, contractor, or PMC
- Relevant degree required; real estate or commercial qualifications are a plus
