Salman Alhaqbani

• Established effective communication channels between departments, promoting collaboration and information sharing.
• Championed best practices in project management, leading by example and driving consistency across the organization.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to develop clear objectives, strategies, timelines, budgets, risk assessments, monitoring plans, evaluations/results reporting frameworks for successful implementation of initiatives.

Overseeing the planning, organization, reporting and execution of large-scale initiatives and events such as the Year of Arabic Poetry, Expo Osaka 2025, Prince Mohammed bin Salman Global Center of Arabic calligraphy, and other high profile global gatherings.

Primary duties:

• Determined project schedules and kept projects on track using proactive adjustments to workflow.
• Defined project scope, milestones and task allocation to establish and maintain clear progress plans.
• Delivered projects on time and under budget through strict implementation and cost controls.
• Tracked and communicated project status, timelines and action items from project inception to delivery.
• Generated project cost estimations with outstanding accuracy, guiding effective decision-making.

• Collaborating with key stakeholders, and team members, to understand their needs and expectations, ensuring effective communication, and managing their expectations
• Identifying and evaluating potential risks and developing mitigation strategies
• Report program status and escalate to management as needed
• Prepared and managed project plans from end to end, meeting required milestones.
• Delivered on projects' key objectives with agreed budgets, timelines and standards.

Projects:

• Year of Arabic Poetry: Planning, executing and reporting the initiative with over 10 activations and events across the kingdom with a total of 500K attendees
• Expo Osaka 2025: Planning and executing the strategy of Expo Osaka, defining and developing the RFP for the streams
• Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Global Center of Arabic Calligraphy: Planning and executing the projects under the MBS Center.

• Client servicing on Saudi authority for data and artificial intelligence worked on the first ever AI Arathorn competition
• Saudi authority for data and artificial intelligence Virtual Global AI summit and ceremony of the AI Arathorn and Neom AI Challenge
• Head of marketing managed internal and 3rd party creatives to execute digital and website projects
• Saudi Federation for cyber security and programming and drones initiated the project charter and assigned and coordinated the tasks for each department for the 'Tuwaiq Drones Challenge.' Roshn (PIF) Permanent customer sales experience content planning of the technology use cases
• Ministry of Culture MBS logo competition initiated the program of the competition and the Social Media content for the campaign
• Saudi authority for data and artificial intelligence Project manager in the second version of the AI Arathorn global competition.

• Client servicing on one of the biggest clients at an agency, Aljazeera Vehicles Agencies acting as a main link between client and agency on all digital campaigns
• Developing content topics for 3 social media accounts (Ford, Lincoln, and Quick Lane) and actively participating in the creative content development process