Role summary
Qiddiya Investment Company is transforming the entertainment landscape in Saudi Arabia and seeks an experienced professional for the Senior Manager – Land Cost and Valuations role within the Master Development Unit. This position drives land cost modelling and financial analysis that inform land cost allocation outcomes and masterplanning decisions. You will bring advanced financial modelling capability and strong project management skills, balancing analytical depth with cross-functional collaboration. You need strong understanding of how land is planned, subdivided, serviced and monetised, and how those decisions influence land value, infrastructure cost, and financing outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Conduct detailed city-wide and district-level land cost modelling and allocation work
- Review data accuracy
- Perform subsidy scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis across multiple development pathways
- Translate complex data into concise summaries for decision-making
- Support development and enhancement of land cost model structure
- Contribute to land valuation and financial analysis to support strategic decision-making
- Support multidisciplinary coordination across Implementation, Cost Planning, Master Planning and others
- Contribute to land sale strategy, land transactions and commercial deals
- Challenge assumptions and provide recommendations to improve investment outcomes
- Support executive-level reporting and presentations
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Real Estate, Economics, Urban Development, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or related discipline
- 8 to 12 years of relevant experience in real estate, infrastructure development or development finance
- Advanced Excel and modelling capability
- Experience in land economics, infrastructure advisory or master development strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of land development lifecycle, infrastructure delivery and subdivision
- Understanding of principles of land valuation, cost planning and land use classifications
- Strong project management and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to synthesize technical and financial inputs
- Strong problem-solving capability
Education
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Real Estate, Economics, Urban Development, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or related discipline
Experience
8 to 12 years of relevant experience in real estate, infrastructure development or development finance
Skills
- Land cost modelling and allocation
- Data accuracy review
- Subsidy scenario modelling
- Sensitivity analysis
- Advanced Excel
- Land valuation
- Financial analysis
- Land economics
- Infrastructure advisory
- Master development
- Land development lifecycle understanding
- Infrastructure delivery
- Subdivision planning
- Land valuation principles
- Cost planning
- Land use classifications
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Technical and financial synthesis
- Problem-solving