Riyadh ALShahrani

Key Responsibilities - Directed nationwide programs exceeding 800 million SAR, ensuring strategic alignment, financial governance, and successful delivery of all initiatives. - Led a six-member team by setting priorities, tracking execution, and securing timely, high-quality outcomes. - Oversaw an indirect workforce of more than 200 people to maintain alignment, performance, and smooth operational coordination. - Defined and delivered program scopes, schedules, and objectives, ensuring clarity and alignment with organizational goals. - Managed CapEx, OpEx, and write-off budgets, including forecasting and financial analysis with the Finance team. - Control and monitor all Capital Work in Progress (CWIP) activities to ensure accurate financial tracking. - Provided weekly program reviews to senior leadership, including the COO and GMs. - Contributed to key C-level committees such as Asset Portfolio Optimization, Health & Safety, Crisis Management, Vendor Negotiation, Local Content, and Energy Efficiency. - Worked with Procurement to assess bidder submissions technically and commercially. - Developed program policies, procedures, approval matrices, and operational guidelines. - Managed vendors and service providers to ensure clear communication, strong coordination, and efficient execution. - Designed contracting and award strategies that delivered value, fairness, and long-term partnership success. Key Achievements: - Led nationwide programs exceeding 800M SAR. - Reduced service costs by over 25%. - Achieved cost savings of over 20M SAR through strategic project awarding. - Saved 7M SAR by optimizing asset utilization, and reducing capital spending. - Maintained operational KPIs above 99.9%. - Achieved zero failures in critical operations - Managed a Tier III data center project for a Satellite Ground Earth Station, one of the few such gateways in KSA and globally.y - Met compliance requirements by delivering key regulatory projects.

Key Responsibilities: - Work with the Commercial team as the Projects Department SPOC to assess new opportunities and develop feasibility studies. - Supervise project work and meet regularly with key customers—including DGDA, OneWeb, RCU, STC, Mobily, Atheeb, and others—to review progress and incorporate their feedback. - Conduct weekly progress meetings with senior client management to update them on project status. - Oversee and follow up internally with Project Managers to ensure smooth project delivery that meets client needs. Key Achievement - Overachieved TAWAL customer satisfaction scores by ensuring high-quality execution and timely responses to client needs. - Closed all projects on time and within budget. - Officially recognized by multiple customers for outstanding work and successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities - Participate with Procurement in contractor selection and evaluation. - Manage end-to-end, multi-phase projects with a total budget of 70M SAR. - Prepare scope documents and Bills of Quantities (BOQ). - Issue work orders and control the project budget to avoid overruns. - Track daily progress and provide contractors with the required support. - Ensure smooth product and service handover to the project customer. - Verify as-built documentation and manage the invoicing process. Key Achievements - Maintained operational KPIs above 99.9%, ensuring consistent performance and service reliability. - Successfully delivered multi-phase projects valued at 70M SAR, meeting scope, schedule, and budget targets. - Reduced budget overruns through strict cost-control measures and accurate BOQ preparation. - Achieved 100% on-time product and service handovers through structured planning and customer-focused delivery. - Improved project quality and compliance by strengthening contractor selection and evaluation processes. - Accelerated project execution by enhancing contractor coordination and resolving daily operational challenges.

Key Responsibilities - Forecast annual project demand and estimate the required budget. - Handle project initiatives by receiving requests from regional teams and assessing them against approved criteria and governance frameworks. - Follow up on approved projects with the Implementation Department to ensure execution is completed on time and in accordance with the approved scope. - Participate with Procurement in project awarding and in drafting RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs. - Participate in international factory visits—such as to Italy and Germany—to assess manufacturers’ and product vendors’ capabilities and capacities, supporting the evaluation of their production readiness to meet project delivery requirements. - Provide support to the Implementation Department to ensure the successful delivery of projects.

Corporate Strategy & Control, Corporate Finance, Valuation, Mergers, and Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Leadership Foundations, Strategic Operations Management, Decision Models and Analysis, Business Economics, Marketing Management & Strategy, Leadership & Organizational Design and Change, Negotiation & Conflict Resolution, Supply Chain Management, Information Technology Management, Ethics, Social Responsibility, and , Corporate Governance, Statistics for Managers, Entrepreneurship, Brand Management, Global Enterprise

Thesis Title : Development of a Correlation for the Sun’s Circumsolar Ratio to Study Its Effect on CSP Plant Performance.

Graduation Project: Design and Optimization of a Solar Milk Chiller.