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About Ma'aden and the Role

Ma'aden (معادن), established in 1997, is a leading multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company plays a significant role in developing Saudi Arabia's mining industry, aiming to establish it as a key pillar of the national economy through a world-class, integrated mining value chain. We are seeking a Principal Specialist, Technology Operations Solutions to join our team in Riyadh.

Role Purpose and Context

This full-time role is critical for defining and guiding the delivery of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) technology operations initiatives. The Principal Specialist translates business challenges, site-based evidence, and P2P process priorities into scalable solution requirements, value-driven work packages, and implementation guidance. The primary objective is to enable reliable outcomes across procurement, supplier management, contract lifecycle, invoicing, payments, and operational support functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Capture statements of requirements for P2P initiatives by translating business challenges and pain points into clear solution needs.
• Define solution plans, work packages, and quarterly value milestones in alignment with platform architects, solution architects, and domain stakeholders.
• Ensure solution designs support procurement, supplier management, contract lifecycle, invoice processing, approvals, payments, and operational support processes.
• Provide technical direction, design clarification, and quality oversight to delivery teams during solution implementation.
• Guide engineers, analysts, digital specialists, data teams, and external delivery partners to ensure correct solution design implementation.
• Collaborate with Domain Integrators and Business Partners to shape initiative scope, value hypotheses, and delivery priorities.
• Ensure P2P solutions are scalable, integrated, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards and architecture principles.
• Coordinate with platform, integration, data, cybersecurity, ERP, analytics, and application teams to resolve cross-domain dependencies.
• Monitor delivery progress against requirements, value milestones, quality expectations, and operational readiness criteria.
• Troubleshoot current and future-state issues across workflows, integrations, data, platforms, controls, and user adoption areas.

Expected Outcomes

• P2P business challenges are effectively translated into clear solution requirements, delivery plans, and value-based work packages.
• Solution designs are scalable, integrated, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture and TechOps standards.
• Delivery teams receive clear technical direction, design clarification, and quality oversight throughout implementation.
• Technical trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and integration issues are surfaced early and resolved effectively.
• Implemented solutions improve P2P performance, user experience, control, compliance, service reliability, and measurable business value.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5-10 years of professional experience in technology operations, solution design, or P2P process optimization. This experience should include a proven track record in translating business needs into technical solutions and guiding implementation teams.

Work Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh (الرياض), Saudi Arabia.