Network Development Manager

Network Development Manager
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · Full-time · SAR 30,000 per month, plus benefits

We are inviting applications only from candidates currently in a network development role and based in the Kingdom, or who have held such a role in the Kingdom until recently. Applications from outside this group will not progress.

You will deliver in excess of fifteen new dealerships across the Kingdom over the next two to three years, based in Riyadh with travel to sites. That is roughly one facility every two months, in a market where the constraint is rarely the building and almost always the approval sitting on someone's desk. The programme is live and currently running on borrowed resource, which is why the role exists. Everything from site through to handover is yours: the sequence, the schedule and the relationships that keep it moving.

What you will do

• Own the delivery pipeline for the full facility programme, from site identification through to operational handover.
• Run the approvals path end to end: municipality, civil defence, operating licences and every permission that sits between a site and a trading dealership.
• Manage the CAD and design process, holding each brand principal's facility standards while keeping the build commercially sensible.
• Coordinate contractors, consultants and the internal operations team against a schedule with no slack in it.
• Report progress, risk and cost to the leadership of the retail operation, with the schedule you defend rather than the one you inherited.

Within your first three months, you will have a single programme plan covering all current, proposed and future sites, with the critical path and the approval bottlenecks identified.

What you will bring

• Current network development responsibility in the Kingdom, or the same role held here until recently. This is a firm requirement and the reason is the next point.
• Working command of the Saudi approvals environment, including municipality and licensing, and the judgement to know which submissions fail and why. The programme cannot absorb a learning curve.
• Delivery of automotive or comparable retail facilities, from site through to opening, where you held the programme rather than supported it.
• Fluency in reading and challenging CAD drawings against brand standards. You do not need to draw them; you need to know when they are wrong.
• A career showing depth rather than movement.
• A significant advantage: multi-brand facility experience, and prior work with OEM standards teams under audit.

Where you will do it
You will be based in Riyadh and report to the Operations Director. The honest constraint is the pace: over fifteen facilities in this timeframe means several sites live at once, at different stages, with different brand requirements. There is no established programme office to lean on, and building the discipline is part of the job. This suits someone comfortable holding the whole picture and chasing the detail themselves, and it will not work for someone who needs a large team beneath them.

What you will receive
Base salary of SAR 30,000 per month. Accommodation allowance, company car and private medical cover, and an annual flight ticket for you and your family.

How to apply
Send your CV, with one paragraph on a facility you delivered in the Kingdom and the approval that nearly stopped it.

We assess candidates on capability and record, and we welcome applications from anyone who meets the requirement above.