Principal Specialist Partnerships & Stakeholder Management

About Ma'aden

Ma'aden - Saudi Arabian Mining Company | معادن, established in 1997, is a rapidly growing multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is focused on developing the mining industry to become a key pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building an integrated mining value chain. This full-time 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 of this role is on project delivery, stakeholder alignment, governance, and business integration, rather than hands-on technical development. The specialist acts as the business integration lead across various internal departments 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.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects and initiatives from concept to adoption.
• Experience in stakeholder and governance management, including facilitating discussions and preparing executive reports.
• Proven capability in coordinating diverse teams and partners to achieve project outcomes.

Performance Indicators

• Improved stakeholder satisfaction index.
• Establishment or enhancement of strategic partnerships in line with agreed value objectives.
• Partnership performance meeting agreed objectives.
• Completion of stakeholder engagement plans within agreed timelines.
• Effective resolution of stakeholder issues and concerns.
• Consistent adherence to governance and reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in stakeholder engagement effectiveness metrics.

Benefits

Ma'aden offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes career growth opportunities, competitive salaries, an inclusive work environment, work-life balance initiatives, and employee wellness programs.