Naif Alsaaid

Chief Development Officer at Knowledge Economic City

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

About

Talented in leading and managing sophisticated portfolios and programs and offering high-level strategic perspective and deep expertise on all facets of complex, commercial real estate projects: Apply financial and analytical savvy to quickly determine feasibility of opportunities to execute or move on to higher-ROI projects

Experience

  • Chief Development Officer at Knowledge Economic City
    Sep 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Chief Executive Officer at Private Company
    Nov 2023 - Sep 2026 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Deputy Mayor for Projects at أمانة منطقة الرياض
    Nov 2021 - Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Executive Director for Projects Management at وزارة الثقافة Ministry of Culture
    Jan 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia (2 yrs)
    • Deputy Minister Asst. for Engineering Affairs
      Jul 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

      - Oversee all aspects of the Ministry of Health Projects. Initiated organization’s strategic plan, driven change management for improvement; Communication Protocols, Leadership development, Organization Governance, Risk Management & Procedural Compliance, and Prioritization of organizations budget funding as well as to Operating and Budgeting, Bi-organization Performance Reporting, Asset maintenance and Regulatory Compliance. - Cultivated mutually respectful relationships with stakeholders and constituents; also made strategically and diplomatically navigating political and regulatory complexities. - Develop vision, mission and goals, defining critical goals and success factor, establish a clear objective and practical action plan, foster innovation and risk-taking, established relationships with the private sector and other governmental entities.

    • Advisor
      Dec 2017 - Nov 2019 · 2 yrs

    • Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
      Being a chairman/member of various committees within MOH such as: 1) Member of the Offers Examination Committee. 2) Member of the Hospitals’ Operation Committee. Representing the Ministry of Health at: 1) Member of the Committee of Hajj. 2) Member of the National Steering Committee of Emergencies and disasters. 3) Member of the National Steering Committee for the Propagation of the Earthquakes in Saudi Arabia.

    • General Manager for Directorate of Projects
      Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 · 7 mos

      Re-engineered the Organization of all operations processes, Redesigned organization’s Structure, Self- Initiated Strategic Engineering Operation’s Plan, initiated Bi-organization’s periodic delivering of achievement(s) for MOH Senior Management, Instilled urgency for Financial Discipline of the Projects, Directed financial and legal negotiations for prioritization of project`s budget funding. Spearheading continuous improvement process across inter-organizations (Contractors to subcontractors, Site Supervision Consultants and Project Management Offices and also to related organization(s) under my supervision), initiated financial strategic plan that decreased expenditures spending and increases the efficiency of project set deliverables, Benchmarked organization engineer-focused that truly understands the project needs, mentored young engineer(s) to senior talent. Improve the project progress beyond expectation and pioneering value-added personnel models by letting everyone engaging on the organization mission.