Lead Specialist Innovation Portfolio📣 إعلان

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	نوع العقد	دوام كامل
	طبيعة الوظيفة	بالموقع
	الموقع	الرياض

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About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Lead Specialist Innovation Portfolio to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is crucial for maximizing the value of the company's innovation investments by establishing a structured, transparent, and strategically aligned innovation portfolio.

Role Purpose and Strategic Impact

This position ensures that innovation initiatives are prioritized, governed, and managed as a balanced portfolio, directly supporting Maaden's long-term business growth, operational excellence, and transformation objectives. Through disciplined portfolio management practices, the Lead Specialist will improve investment decisions, accelerate the delivery of high-value initiatives, and strengthen the organization's ability to translate innovation opportunities into measurable business outcomes, including financial, operational, sustainability, and strategic value realization. The role also provides leadership with data-driven insights, portfolio transparency, and decision support to enable effective resource allocation and develop a sustainable pipeline of innovation opportunities, enhancing Maaden’s future competitiveness.

Key Responsibilities

Establish and continuously enhance innovation portfolio governance frameworks, prioritization models, and investment criteria, aligning investments with business strategy and long-term value creation objectives.
Optimize innovation investment decisions by evaluating opportunities based on strategic fit, value potential, risk, scalability, and feasibility, developing robust business cases and recommendations.
Define and implement portfolio performance frameworks and value realization measures, continuously monitoring innovation performance and driving optimization through insights.
Build and maintain a sustainable pipeline of innovation opportunities and emerging technology initiatives, enhancing portfolio resilience through balanced management across varying maturity levels and risk profiles.
Foster collaboration across Innovation, Technology Operations, Data & AI, and business functions to accelerate innovation delivery, resolving portfolio dependencies, resource constraints, and execution risks.
Deliver executive-level portfolio reporting, generating actionable insights that support strategic planning, budgeting, and innovation roadmap development, influencing leadership decisions through evidence-based recommendations.

Indicators of Success

Innovation investments demonstrate clear alignment with strategic business priorities.
Portfolio governance frameworks enable transparent and effective decision-making.
Innovation initiatives deliver measurable financial, operational, sustainability, and strategic value.
A balanced pipeline of innovation opportunities is maintained across multiple maturity levels.
Leadership receives timely, accurate, and actionable portfolio insights.
Portfolio resources are optimized to maximize innovation outcomes and business impact.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in innovation portfolio management or a related strategic function. The role requires a strong understanding of portfolio strategy, governance, investment prioritization, performance measurement, and pipeline management.