Corporate Communications Manager

About the Opportunity

Taj HR is seeking a Corporate Communications Manager for a multi-billion-dollar primary metals and industrial complex project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This project is transitioning from a development phase to high international visibility. The role involves establishing the corporate communications function from the ground up, as there is currently no existing communications infrastructure.

The Role

The Corporate Communications Manager will be responsible for establishing the organization as a credible and internationally recognized industrial enterprise. This position requires owning the strategy and execution for the company's emergence from confidentiality, developing the overarching corporate narrative, and implementing governance standards for an asset backed by listed shareholders across multiple jurisdictions. This is a foundational role, requiring both strategic direction and hands-on execution, from drafting executive remarks to presenting reputation risk strategies to the Board. Government relations and regulatory affairs are managed by separate functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the corporate story, message architecture for global markets, and a sequenced launch strategy.
• Build regional and international media relationships, manage inbound queries, prepare spokespersons, and oversee media monitoring.
• Lead the end-to-end launch of a bilingual website, corporate identity, editorial calendar, and an extensive photo/film asset library.
• Advise executive leadership, drafting speeches, statements, opinion pieces, board materials, and investor narratives.
• Manage disclosure interfaces with shareholder communications and investor relations functions across multiple jurisdictions.
• Establish a multichannel internal communications architecture for a growing, multilingual workforce across corporate offices and construction sites.
• Develop and test crisis frameworks, scenarios, holding statements, and simulation drills.
• Build the operating model for the department, hire the internal team, manage budgets, and select agency partners.
• Align the equity story with the corporate narrative to establish securities disclosure discipline for future capital market activity.

First-Year Objectives

• Complete governance audits, secure approval for disclosure protocols and emergence calendars, and initiate brand and website agency briefs within the first quarter.
• Launch the bilingual website, deploy corporate identity, contract primary agencies, establish crisis frameworks, run executive simulations, and execute initial controlled announcements within the first six months.
• Achieve a fully functioning department, establish a measurable media presence, finalize launch playbooks, and embed systematic executive reporting by the end of year one.

Candidate Profile and Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in corporate communications, with at least 3 years leading a function or serving as a deputy group lead in a large enterprise.
• Demonstrated strong track record within a company, with direct accountability for commercial and corporate outcomes.
• Proven experience establishing or substantially rebuilding a communications department from the ground up.
• Experience operating under securities disclosure obligations, with a strong understanding of materiality and regulatory timing.
• Experience in heavy industry sectors such as metals, mining, energy, chemicals, or large-scale industrial infrastructure.
• Demonstrated success in communicating a major capital project through construction to operational launch, or through significant corporate transitions (*, IPO, listing, carve-out).
• Practical experience personally leading communications during live reputational, environmental, or operational crises.
• Willingness to be based in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with regular site visits.

What the Role Offers

This full-time position offers a direct reporting line to senior operational leadership and standing attendance at Executive Committee meetings. The role includes clear authority over external communications clearance and direct ownership of the department budget and agency selection. A clear, milestone-linked progression framework is provided as the organization advances toward capital market readiness. Full relocation support, comprehensive medical coverage, and standard corporate allowances are also included.