Senior Manager - Planning Reporting
Posted date [2026-07-08]
(ID: 47610)
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Job Description and Requirements
Senior Manager - Planning ReportingJob Snapshot
Role: Senior Manager - Planning Reporting
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad
Function: Strategy/Planning
Experience: 15+ years in planning, scheduling, project controls, and program-level reporting
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Senior Manager - Planning Reporting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Transportation-Trucking-Railroad hiring opportunity for a senior planning and project controls professional who can lead program-wide scheduling governance, integrated master schedule management, portfolio reporting, data assurance, and performance insight across a major transportation program. This client-facing role supports strategic and tactical program control by giving leadership clear visibility of progress, critical paths, schedule risks, portfolio trends, and decision requirements across multiple workstreams and corporate functions.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad
Function: Strategy/Planning
Salary: 48000-68000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality:
Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Senior Manager - Planning Reporting will work within an integrated client and PMC office, supporting the Vertical Links function on a complex transportation program. The role is non-operational and focused on planning governance, schedule integration, reporting standards, portfolio-level coordination, schedule risk analysis, and executive performance reporting rather than daily transport operations. The position adds strong program value by improving schedule discipline, strengthening reporting accuracy, identifying risks early, aligning multiple project teams, and helping senior leadership make informed decisions on phasing, milestones, access strategies, change impacts, and delivery priorities.
Key Responsibilities
* Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the program-wide planning and scheduling framework, standards, processes, and procedures.
* Define planning requirements for work breakdown structures, coding structures, calendars, milestone structures, reporting cycles, and schedule governance.
* Ensure planning standards are applied consistently across PMC teams, client functions, contractors, project teams, and workstream leads.
* Provide planning leadership so schedule data supports executive decision-making, governance forums, and program control processes.
* Lead development, integration, and maintenance of the program Integrated Master Schedule.
* Consolidate schedule inputs from multiple projects, contracts, packages, and functions into a coherent master planning view.
* Ensure design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, approvals, handover, and operational readiness activities are fully represented and logically linked.
* Oversee identification and management of program critical paths, major dependencies, interfaces, and cross-workstream constraints.
* Coordinate with project planning teams to validate schedule logic, durations, assumptions, constraints, and baseline readiness before integration.
* Provide planning oversight to multiple project teams within the Vertical Links portfolio, including stations, systems, civil works, enabling works, and third-party interfaces.
* Review and challenge project-level baselines, updates, progress submissions, and recovery plans to ensure realism and alignment with program objectives.
* Support portfolio-level scenario planning and what-if analysis for major changes, resequencing, acceleration strategies, access changes, and phasing adjustments.
* Advise senior leadership on planning implications of strategic decisions, scope changes, milestone movements, delivery constraints, and program priorities.
* Own and manage the program-level reporting framework for schedule and progress in line with client governance requirements.
* Define reporting metrics, dashboards, reporting formats, progress narratives, milestone trackers, critical path updates, slippage trends, and productivity indicators.
* Lead production of clear, concise, and decision-focused planning and progress reports for steering committees, boards, governance forums, and external stakeholders.
* Integrate schedule information with risk, cost, change, health and safety, and commercial reporting to provide a complete view of program performance.
* Work closely with risk, change, cost, commercial, and project controls teams to ensure planning data supports integrated program governance.
* Support or lead schedule risk analysis at program level, including qualitative review and quantitative assessment where required.
* Provide time impact assessments for major change proposals, portfolio trends, interface delays, access constraints, and delivery scenarios.
* Identify systemic schedule risks and opportunities across the portfolio and recommend practical mitigation, optimization, or recovery strategies.
* Act as the central planning and reporting interface between Vertical Links and other client functions including Engineering and Safety, Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Corporate Reporting.
* Coordinate with external stakeholders to align program milestones with regulatory requirements, funding needs, authority approvals, and third-party obligations.
* Support cross-program governance forums with planning insights, progress analysis, action tracking, and performance reporting.
* Ensure governance decisions, approved actions, and strategic changes are accurately reflected in schedules and reporting outputs.
* Align project-level planning teams with corporate, client, and portfolio reporting expectations.
* Ensure planning and progress data is accurate, complete, timely, consistent, and reliable across projects and reporting cycles.
* Implement schedule assurance checks and audits to verify logic quality, coding accuracy, data completeness, baseline consistency, and correct use of planning tools.
* Drive continuous improvement in progress measurement, data capture, reporting systems, schedule assurance, and planning methodologies.
* Promote best practice in planning and reporting across the integrated client-PMC environment.
* Lead and manage planners, schedulers, reporting analysts, and planning support personnel within the Vertical Links function.
* Mentor planning staff and support capability development for client personnel where required.
* Build a collaborative, service-oriented planning culture focused on clarity, objectivity, data discipline, and program outcomes.
* Support succession planning and long-term capability building across planning, scheduling, reporting, and project controls disciplines.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
* Postgraduate qualification in Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering Management, or a related field is an advantage.
* Professional or project management certification is highly desirable.
* Minimum 15 years of experience in planning, scheduling, project controls, and reporting on large, complex infrastructure programs.
* Strong transportation, rail, metro, or major mobility program exposure is preferred.
* Significant experience working in a PMC, client organization, or integrated client office environment.
* Proven experience integrating and overseeing multiple project schedules across packages, contracts, workstreams, and functions.
* Demonstrated experience leading planning and reporting at program or portfolio level, not only single-project delivery.
* Strong understanding of critical path method, schedule logic, schedule risk concepts, baseline development, re-baselining, and progress measurement.
* Advanced proficiency in planning tools and strong capability with Microsoft Office Suite for dashboards, reporting, analysis, and executive presentations.
* Ability to interpret, challenge, and improve schedule logic and assumptions from diverse technical disciplines.
* Strong analytical and synthesis skills with the ability to convert complex schedule data into clear, practical, decision-focused insights.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills for executive-level reporting, steering committee papers, presentations, and stakeholder briefings.
* Strong leadership and people management skills with the ability to influence teams across organizational boundaries.
* High level of integrity, objectivity, planning discipline, client-service orientation, and commitment to successful program outcomes.
Skills Set
* Program planning
* Planning governance
* Schedule management
* Integrated Master Schedule
* Portfolio reporting
* Project controls
* Transportation program planning
* Rail program controls
* Vertical Links coordination
* Work Breakdown Structures
* WBS
* Coding structures
* Planning calendars
* Milestone management
* Reporting cycles
* Critical path method
* Schedule baselining
* Re-baselining
* Schedule integration
* Schedule logic review
* Schedule assurance
* Schedule audits
* Progress measurement
* Performance reporting
* Executive dashboards
* Steering committee reporting
* Board reporting
* Critical path analysis
* Interface planning
* Interdependency management
* Scenario planning
* What-if analysis
* Acceleration planning
* Resequencing analysis
* Time impact assessment
* Schedule risk analysis
* Qualitative risk analysis
* Quantitative risk analysis
* Risk integration
* Change integration
* Cost reporting integration
* Health and safety reporting integration
* Data integrity
* Planning data governance
* Progress data validation
* Reporting systems
* MS Suite
* Planning tools
* Stakeholder coordination
* Cross-functional coordination
* Governance forums
* Planning team leadership
* Scheduler management
* Reporting analyst management
* Capability development
* Succession planning
Why Join Us
This Senior Manager - Planning Reporting role in Riyadh offers the opportunity to shape planning governance and executive visibility on a major transportation program with complex workstreams, interfaces, milestones, and stakeholder requirements. The position provides senior exposure across integrated scheduling, portfolio reporting, schedule risk, change impact assessment, performance dashboards, and program decision support. It is a strong fit for a planning leader who wants to influence delivery discipline, improve reporting quality, and contribute to future-ready transport infrastructure in Saudi Arabia’s active Transportation-Trucking-Railroad sector.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, construction, and program management company supporting major transportation, rail, infrastructure, urban development, environmental, and technology-led projects. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Parsons supports complex transportation programs through planning governance, project controls, schedule assurance, technical coordination, stakeholder engagement, reporting discipline, and client-focused delivery across large-scale infrastructure environments.
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Senior Manager - Planning Reporting will work within an integrated client and PMC office, supporting the Vertical Links function on a complex transportation program. The role is non-operational and focused on planning governance, schedule integration, reporting standards, portfolio-level coordination, schedule risk analysis, and executive performance reporting rather than daily transport operations. The position adds strong program value by improving schedule discipline, strengthening reporting accuracy, identifying risks early, aligning multiple project teams, and helping senior leadership make informed decisions on phasing, milestones, access strategies, change impacts, and delivery priorities.
Key Responsibilities
* Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the program-wide planning and scheduling framework, standards, processes, and procedures.
* Define planning requirements for work breakdown structures, coding structures, calendars, milestone structures, reporting cycles, and schedule governance.
* Ensure planning standards are applied consistently across PMC teams, client functions, contractors, project teams, and workstream leads.
* Provide planning leadership so schedule data supports executive decision-making, governance forums, and program control processes.
* Lead development, integration, and maintenance of the program Integrated Master Schedule.
* Consolidate schedule inputs from multiple projects, contracts, packages, and functions into a coherent master planning view.
* Ensure design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, approvals, handover, and operational readiness activities are fully represented and logically linked.
* Oversee identification and management of program critical paths, major dependencies, interfaces, and cross-workstream constraints.
* Coordinate with project planning teams to validate schedule logic, durations, assumptions, constraints, and baseline readiness before integration.
* Provide planning oversight to multiple project teams within the Vertical Links portfolio, including stations, systems, civil works, enabling works, and third-party interfaces.
* Review and challenge project-level baselines, updates, progress submissions, and recovery plans to ensure realism and alignment with program objectives.
* Support portfolio-level scenario planning and what-if analysis for major changes, resequencing, acceleration strategies, access changes, and phasing adjustments.
* Advise senior leadership on planning implications of strategic decisions, scope changes, milestone movements, delivery constraints, and program priorities.
* Own and manage the program-level reporting framework for schedule and progress in line with client governance requirements.
* Define reporting metrics, dashboards, reporting formats, progress narratives, milestone trackers, critical path updates, slippage trends, and productivity indicators.
* Lead production of clear, concise, and decision-focused planning and progress reports for steering committees, boards, governance forums, and external stakeholders.
* Integrate schedule information with risk, cost, change, health and safety, and commercial reporting to provide a complete view of program performance.
* Work closely with risk, change, cost, commercial, and project controls teams to ensure planning data supports integrated program governance.
* Support or lead schedule risk analysis at program level, including qualitative review and quantitative assessment where required.
* Provide time impact assessments for major change proposals, portfolio trends, interface delays, access constraints, and delivery scenarios.
* Identify systemic schedule risks and opportunities across the portfolio and recommend practical mitigation, optimization, or recovery strategies.
* Act as the central planning and reporting interface between Vertical Links and other client functions including Engineering and Safety, Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Corporate Reporting.
* Coordinate with external stakeholders to align program milestones with regulatory requirements, funding needs, authority approvals, and third-party obligations.
* Support cross-program governance forums with planning insights, progress analysis, action tracking, and performance reporting.
* Ensure governance decisions, approved actions, and strategic changes are accurately reflected in schedules and reporting outputs.
* Align project-level planning teams with corporate, client, and portfolio reporting expectations.
* Ensure planning and progress data is accurate, complete, timely, consistent, and reliable across projects and reporting cycles.
* Implement schedule assurance checks and audits to verify logic quality, coding accuracy, data completeness, baseline consistency, and correct use of planning tools.
* Drive continuous improvement in progress measurement, data capture, reporting systems, schedule assurance, and planning methodologies.
* Promote best practice in planning and reporting across the integrated client-PMC environment.
* Lead and manage planners, schedulers, reporting analysts, and planning support personnel within the Vertical Links function.
* Mentor planning staff and support capability development for client personnel where required.
* Build a collaborative, service-oriented planning culture focused on clarity, objectivity, data discipline, and program outcomes.
* Support succession planning and long-term capability building across planning, scheduling, reporting, and project controls disciplines.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
* Postgraduate qualification in Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering Management, or a related field is an advantage.
* Professional or project management certification is highly desirable.
* Minimum 15 years of experience in planning, scheduling, project controls, and reporting on large, complex infrastructure programs.
* Strong transportation, rail, metro, or major mobility program exposure is preferred.
* Significant experience working in a PMC, client organization, or integrated client office environment.
* Proven experience integrating and overseeing multiple project schedules across packages, contracts, workstreams, and functions.
* Demonstrated experience leading planning and reporting at program or portfolio level, not only single-project delivery.
* Strong understanding of critical path method, schedule logic, schedule risk concepts, baseline development, re-baselining, and progress measurement.
* Advanced proficiency in planning tools and strong capability with Microsoft Office Suite for dashboards, reporting, analysis, and executive presentations.
* Ability to interpret, challenge, and improve schedule logic and assumptions from diverse technical disciplines.
* Strong analytical and synthesis skills with the ability to convert complex schedule data into clear, practical, decision-focused insights.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills for executive-level reporting, steering committee papers, presentations, and stakeholder briefings.
* Strong leadership and people management skills with the ability to influence teams across organizational boundaries.
* High level of integrity, objectivity, planning discipline, client-service orientation, and commitment to successful program outcomes.
Skills Set
* Program planning
* Planning governance
* Schedule management
* Integrated Master Schedule
* Portfolio reporting
* Project controls
* Transportation program planning
* Rail program controls
* Vertical Links coordination
* Work Breakdown Structures
* WBS
* Coding structures
* Planning calendars
* Milestone management
* Reporting cycles
* Critical path method
* Schedule baselining
* Re-baselining
* Schedule integration
* Schedule logic review
* Schedule assurance
* Schedule audits
* Progress measurement
* Performance reporting
* Executive dashboards
* Steering committee reporting
* Board reporting
* Critical path analysis
* Interface planning
* Interdependency management
* Scenario planning
* What-if analysis
* Acceleration planning
* Resequencing analysis
* Time impact assessment
* Schedule risk analysis
* Qualitative risk analysis
* Quantitative risk analysis
* Risk integration
* Change integration
* Cost reporting integration
* Health and safety reporting integration
* Data integrity
* Planning data governance
* Progress data validation
* Reporting systems
* MS Suite
* Planning tools
* Stakeholder coordination
* Cross-functional coordination
* Governance forums
* Planning team leadership
* Scheduler management
* Reporting analyst management
* Capability development
* Succession planning
Why Join Us
This Senior Manager - Planning Reporting role in Riyadh offers the opportunity to shape planning governance and executive visibility on a major transportation program with complex workstreams, interfaces, milestones, and stakeholder requirements. The position provides senior exposure across integrated scheduling, portfolio reporting, schedule risk, change impact assessment, performance dashboards, and program decision support. It is a strong fit for a planning leader who wants to influence delivery discipline, improve reporting quality, and contribute to future-ready transport infrastructure in Saudi Arabia’s active Transportation-Trucking-Railroad sector.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, construction, and program management company supporting major transportation, rail, infrastructure, urban development, environmental, and technology-led projects. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Parsons supports complex transportation programs through planning governance, project controls, schedule assurance, technical coordination, stakeholder engagement, reporting discipline, and client-focused delivery across large-scale infrastructure environments.
