Bandar Raies

Key Responsibilities:

Executive Leadership:

Provide visionary leadership and strategic direction to the company.
Oversee all business operations, financial performance, and organizational development.
Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Commercial Arbitration:

Serve as a commercial arbitrator for disputes, ensuring fair and impartial resolution.
Apply expertise as an FCIArb member to handle complex arbitration cases.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of arbitration laws and practices.

Real Estate Project Management:

Lead and manage multiple real estate projects, including hospitality, hotel, and retail developments.
Develop and implement project plans, budgets, and schedules.
Coordinate with architects, engineers, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure project success.
Monitor project progress, resolve issues, and ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.

Accomplishments:
• Entrusted with significant delegated authority from the government to manage the PPP contract and represent the government.
Responsibilities:
• Acted as the contractual representative of the government in performing obligations and enforcing the rights of the government in the PPP contract.
• Monitored the performance of the private partner in providing the services specified in the PPP contract, and to enforce the payment or penalty mechanism associated with the performance monitoring.
• Monitored, evaluated and reported on the progress of the project, and identify lessons learned for the project and for future PPPs.

Accomplishments:
• Provided strategic, tactical, and execution leadership for projects department, responsible for managing departmental performance against agreed targets and budgets.
• Evolved project management methodologies and tools that maximize effective project planning. Established milestones, scheduled, tracked, enhanced execution for repeatable delivery of successful projects.
Responsibilities:
 Construction industry’s leading visionary, involved in some of the biggest & most challenging projects, delivering innovative & sustainable solutions.
• Provided deep industry expertise, and consultative insights and services to drive world class project management initiatives.
• Leveraged mature business acumen, submitted proposals, negotiated, and closed business deals.

Accomplishments:
• Recognized for successfully commanding a portfolio of projects, ensured integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and diligent resource allocation in the most challenging environments.
• Shouldered onus to attain functional goals and execute corporate strategy.
• Steered planning initiatives towards accomplishment of organizational goals & vision pertaining to the overall execution of the projects.

Accomplishments:
• Head-hunted for the coveted role of General Manager of Projects Development Housing
• Elected as Sustainable Buildings Program Manager, this position required deep knowledge of building certification systems, especially LEED, sustainable design strategies, building systems, and collaboration skills to work with many stakeholders toward common goals.
• Served as Trusted Advisor to the General International Department Cooperation, creditability to provide leadership for a technically-based projects.
Responsibilities:
• Employed high-end project management concepts like critical path management, material and human resource management in planning and scheduling to meet deadlines.
• Efficaciously managed and directed the assigned project resources to overcome “triple constraints”—project scope, time and cost.
• Led weekly progress meeting with Project Managers. Contributed to the value engineering & build-ability of all projects.
• Empowered and mobilized project team through innovative, exemplary and reliable direction.

• 2004 - 2008: Member, Pre-Establishment Team, Bank AI-Billad
Key Projects to Credit:
- 27 Bank AI-Billad Projects valued 8 M (2005).
- 55 Enjaz Branches valued 8 M (2005)
- Head Office in Riyadh City valued 6M (2005)
- 2 Cash Areas valued 4 M (2005)
• 1997 - 2004: Maintenance & Project Manager, SAMBA
• Aug 96 - Mar 97: Transport Co, Saudi Public, Riyadh
• Jul 95 - Jul 96: Maintenance Engineer, SASCO, Riyadh