Chief Specialist Integrated planning

About the Role

Ma’aden is seeking a Chief Specialist, Integrated Planning to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role is central to creating a unified view of priorities, demand, resources, dependencies, and delivery across Technology Enablement. The position connects strategic objectives with execution, allowing leadership to direct investment and capacity towards key initiatives.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Chief Specialist, Integrated Planning enhances decision quality by translating complex portfolio information into clear priorities, scenarios, and trade-offs. The role integrates technology roadmaps, business demand, delivery milestones, resource requirements, and performance insights to ensure initiatives are realistically sequenced, execution-ready, and aligned with business needs. Through disciplined planning, governance, and performance insight, this position improves portfolio visibility, anticipates constraints, and facilitates earlier intervention, stronger accountability, and more predictable execution within Technology Enablement.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and embed an integrated planning framework that links Technology Enablement priorities, demand, roadmaps, resources, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable annual, quarterly, and rolling plans with clear sequencing, milestones, ownership, and decision points.
• Strengthen execution readiness by ensuring plans are realistic, aligned with business needs, and supported by appropriate governance.
• Integrate technology demand, portfolio initiatives, and transformation priorities into a consolidated enterprise planning view.
• Drive prioritization, capacity, and dependency analysis to enable informed trade-offs on sequencing, resources, and delivery commitments.
• Align roadmaps across business, technology, Finance, Procurement, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data, and operational stakeholders.
• Establish consistent planning and portfolio governance to provide leadership with timely visibility of progress, risks, dependencies, constraints, and required decisions.
• Create executive-level dashboards, scorecards, and decision insights to strengthen portfolio performance management and corrective action.
• Define common planning standards, performance measures, and escalation criteria to improve consistency and accountability across Technology Enablement.
• Translate complex portfolio and planning information into clear scenarios, recommendations, and decision options for the VP Technology Enablement and leadership team.
• Anticipate execution risks, constraints, and cross-portfolio dependencies, enabling intervention before they materially affect delivery.
• Advise on portfolio adjustments, resource trade-offs, and sequencing decisions to protect strategic outcomes and execution priorities.
• Create alignment across business functions, technology domains, and enabling functions to resolve competing priorities and critical planning dependencies.
• Facilitate enterprise planning and prioritization forums that lead to clear decisions, ownership, and follow-through.
• Strengthen planning capability, tools, and practices through continuous improvement, knowledge transfer, and lessons learned.

Qualifications and Experience

• 10–12 years of relevant experience in integrated or strategic planning, portfolio management, program governance, business performance, technology planning, or transformation.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex planning cycles, portfolio reviews, roadmap integration, prioritization, and governance.
• Experience developing executive reporting, performance insights, decision papers, and planning scenarios for senior leadership.
• Experience in technology enablement, digital transformation, enterprise PMO, shared services, mining, industrial operations, or large-scale transformation environments is advantageous.

Desired Outcomes

• Technology Enablement operates from an integrated and current view of priorities, demand, capacity, dependencies, milestones, and expected outcomes.
• Portfolio and resource decisions are supported by clear priorities, evidence-based trade-offs, and transparent planning insights.
• Critical dependencies, capacity constraints, and execution risks are identified and escalated early enough to enable effective intervention.
• Leadership has timely, consistent, and decision-ready visibility of portfolio health, performance, and areas requiring action.
• Technology roadmaps and delivery plans remain aligned across business and enabling functions, reducing conflicting priorities and fragmented execution.
• Planning standards, governance, and capability mature over time, improving accountability and execution predictability.

Work Location

This full-time position is based in Riyadh.