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You will turn sold deals into deployed, adopted cybersecurity solutions - on time, within scope, and to the security and compliance standards our clients expect.\nYou will manage a portfolio of concurrent SaaS deployments for enterprise and government clients across Saudi Arabia and the GCC. You will build the department's processes, mentor a junior Delivery Specialist, and act as the trusted face of delivery to client executives and technical teams.\nKey Responsibilities\nDelivery leadership\nLead the Delivery department and set its strategy, processes, tools, and quality standards.\nBuild a repeatable delivery methodology: onboarding playbooks, templates, RACI, stage gates, and handover checklists.\nForecast delivery capacity and flag hiring or partner needs as the customer base grows.\nProject and portfolio management\nOwn end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent SaaS implementations: kickoff, scoping, planning, deployment, integration, UAT, go-live and handover to Customer Success.\nDefine scope, milestones, budgets and resource plans; manage change requests and prevent scope creep.\nTrack risks, issues and dependencies, and escalate early with clear options.\nCoordinate with Product, Engineering, Security Operations, Pre-Sales and Customer Success to remove blockers.\nClient and stakeholder management\nServe as the main delivery contact for client executives, CISOs, IT and SOC teams.\nRun steering committees, status meetings and executive reporting in Arabic and English.\nEnsure deployments meet client security, data-residency and regulatory requirements (e.g. NCA ECC, SAMA CSF, PDPL).\nManage expectations and resolve escalations to protect customer satisfaction and renewals.\nPeople leadership\nManage, coach and develop the Delivery Specialist; set goals and review performance.\nDelegate project workstreams appropriately and grow the specialist toward independent ownership.\nReporting and governance\nMaintain accurate project status, timelines, and health in the PM tooling.\nReport delivery KPIs to leadership and run post-project reviews to drive continuous improvement.\nFeed client insights and recurring deployment issues back to Product.\nRequirements\nNative Arabic speaker with excellent written and spoken Arabic; professional fluency in English.\n6+ years of project management experience.\nProven record delivering enterprise implementations for large or government clients.\nFamiliarity with Saudi and GCC regulatory frameworks such as NCA ECC, SAMA CSF and PDPL.\nStrong command of Agile and Waterfall/hybrid delivery methods.\nHands-on with PM and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.\nExcellent stakeholder management, presentation and executive-communication skills.\nOrganised, calm under pressure and able to manage competing priorities across several projects.\nPreferred qualifications\nPMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner certification.\nSolid working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts: security operations, log sources, integrations, identity and cloud security.\nExperience working with public-sector and critical-infrastructure clients in Saudi Arabia.\nBenefits\nImpact that Matters - Build products that shape the future of cybersecurity and protect organizations globally.\nContinuous Growth - Access to certifications, trainings, and opportunities to sharpen your expertise.\nOwnership Mindset - Benefit from our ESOP program and grow with COGNNA’s success.\nCulture of Trust - We empower talent, encourage ownership, and celebrate real outcomes.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3639,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Arabic","level":"Proficiency (C2)","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Egypt","iso":"EG","kind":"country"},{"name":"Saudi Arabia","iso":"SA","kind":"country"},{"name":"Jordan","iso":"JO","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Security","Security Operations","Cybersecurity AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-12T13:43:12Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T15:26:39Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cognna-senior-project-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cognna-senior-project-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T15:26:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":32231,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":674261},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=674261"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcognna-senior-project-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcognna-senior-project-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcognna-senior-project-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cognna-senior-project-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcognna-senior-project-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4167030}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"cognna.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4167030},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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