About the Role

Mace is seeking a Logistics Planning Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading logistics planning across complex projects, ensuring effective planning, scheduling, and performance monitoring. The position supports project delivery through proactive coordination and controls, aiming to achieve programme objectives, minimise risk, and maintain timely, cost-effective outcomes across a portfolio of projects.

Project Context

The successful candidate will contribute to a major entertainment and luxury hospitality project in Riyadh. This project involves extensive infrastructure and built assets, delivered rapidly through a hands-on construction management approach. The role offers the opportunity to collaborate with renowned architects and global consultants, managing both main and sub-contract packages.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee logistics programme reviews, validating sequencing, constructability, constraints, and delivery readiness across assigned scope.
• Monitor progress, performance, and forecasting, providing robust analysis and reporting to support informed decision-making.
• Support contractual planning activities, including delay analysis, change assessment, and programme compliance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate schedule, cost, risk, and logistics data, enabling safe and efficient project delivery.
• Manage weather-sensitive logistics planning and contingency management.
• Manage interfaces between multiple work packages.
• Drive collaboration between logistics and construction teams.
• Manage contractors and third-party logistics providers.
• Manage logistics planning and schedule control, ensuring integrated, deliverable programmes aligned with project objectives and site requirements.
• Apply robust planning, assurance, and reporting processes to support effective forecasting and decision-making.
• Coordinate contractor resources, logistics activities, and operational interfaces to enable safe, efficient project delivery.
• Influence stakeholders, support project requirements, and contribute to Mace’s net zero carbon ambitions.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant degree and professional membership (APM, RICS, CIOB, ICE, AACE, IRM, IEMA, or equivalent).
• Extensive planning and project controls experience on major programmes, including leadership responsibilities.
• Necessary visa criteria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and relevant work experience on high-valued projects/programmes for a project management consultancy business, required for immigration and client approval.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, program assurance, and contractor schedule review expertise.
• Strong knowledge of construction delivery, FIDIC contracts, and Saudi Arabia visa/client requirements.

Work Environment and Location

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic project environment that requires a hands-on approach to construction management and collaboration with diverse teams and consultants.