Principal Specialist Partnerships &stakeholder Management

About Ma'aden

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is a multi-commodity mining and metals company based in Saudi Arabia. The company is focused on developing the mining industry to support the Saudi Arabian economy by building an integrated mining value chain. This role is based in Riyadh.

Role Overview

The Principal Specialist, Partnerships & Stakeholder Management, leads the planning, coordination, approval, implementation, and adoption of ERD digital, AI, automation, analytics, and decision-support initiatives. The primary focus is on project delivery, stakeholder alignment, governance, and business integration, rather than hands-on technical development. This full-time role acts as the business integration lead between ERD and various internal and external partners to ensure initiatives are clearly scoped, approved, delivered, adopted, and sustained.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage approved initiatives from concept and business case through planning, design coordination, testing, deployment, adoption, and post-implementation review.
• Develop delivery plans, milestones, governance routines, resource needs, dependencies, risks, decisions, and escalation paths.
• Translate ERD business priorities into practical use cases, requirements, implementation roadmaps, and management update materials.
• Monitor progress, resolve delivery issues, coordinate approvals, and ensure initiatives remain aligned with scope, value, and business readiness.
• Serve as the central coordination point across ERD programs, technical teams, IT, AI Factory, Data Management, Cybersecurity, Finance, Procurement, Legal, external advisors, and vendors.
• Build alignment among business, technical, control, and leadership stakeholders with different priorities, expectations, and decision requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, governance discussions, design reviews, issue-resolution meetings, and approval processes.
• Prepare concise executive updates, recommendations, decision papers, and implementation status reports.
• Coordinate small internal teams, project-based contributors, external consultants, implementation partners, and developers to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Delegate work, clarify expectations, track deliverables, support issue resolution, and promote knowledge transfer and sustainable internal capability.
• Mentor team members and project contributors in structured problem solving, stakeholder communication, delivery discipline, and business integration.

Qualifications and Experience

• 7 years of relevant experience.

Performance Indicators

• Improved stakeholder satisfaction index.
• Strategic partnerships established or enhanced in line with agreed value objectives.
• Partnership performance meets agreed objectives.
• Stakeholder engagement plans completed within agreed timelines.
• Stakeholder issues and concerns resolved effectively.
• Governance and reporting requirements consistently met.
• Stakeholder engagement effectiveness metrics demonstrate continuous improvement.

Application Process

Candidates interested in this role are encouraged to apply.