Stakeholder And Interface Manager

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration through conceptualization to realization of planning, design, or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we've led with vision, contributing to many of the world's most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences, and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the top 225 international design firms and one of the top 20 international PM/CM firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the number one firm in the Middle East region in their 2024 WA100 survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you'll discover more than just a job—you'll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun runs, in-house sports teams, and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits, you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, and employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Stakeholder Manager to join our award-winning team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This position is responsible for maintaining and enhancing KEO's reputation with our clients while developing effective long-term relationships with stakeholders to comply with their requirements. You will liaise with government authorities to obtain any required approvals or permits for the project and will be handling all warning notices, violations, and notifications received from various authorities.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Developing stakeholder management, interface, and communication plans to be used by the stakeholder team.
• Managing stakeholder interface activities.
• Maintaining analysis plans to develop and implement strategic swim lanes of follow-up, communication, support, and negotiation plans.
• Planning and leading activities to secure stakeholders' fulfilment and reporting regularly on the status of approvals and pending issues.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships at senior level.
• Influencing people to adopt a collaborative mindset to facilitate the delivery of projects within the scheduled time.
• Coordinating with the wider team and liaising with all authorities and stakeholders throughout the process of obtaining project permits and NOCs.
• Assisting in the technical coordination with the design teams and discipline heads in all matters related to service providers' and authorities' requirements.

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include a minimum of 15 years of work experience with at least 7 years in a similar position partnered with a bachelor's degree in engineering.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety, and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its contribution to client success wherever we work. We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.