Principal Specialist Partnerships &stakeholder Management

About the Role

Ma’aden is seeking a Principal Specialist, Partnerships & Stakeholder Management. This full-time role focuses on leading the planning, coordination, approval, implementation, and adoption of digital, AI, automation, analytics, and decision-support initiatives within the ERD department. The primary focus is on project delivery, stakeholder alignment, governance, and business integration, rather than hands-on technical development.

Role Context and Integration

The Principal Specialist acts as the central business integration lead. This involves coordinating across various internal departments such as ERD, IT, AI Factory, Data Management, Cybersecurity, Finance, Procurement, and Legal. The role also extends to managing relationships with external advisors, vendors, and implementation partners to ensure that all initiatives are clearly scoped, approved, delivered, adopted, and sustained effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage approved initiatives from initial concept and business case development through planning, design coordination, testing, deployment, adoption, and post-implementation review.
• Develop comprehensive delivery plans, define milestones, establish governance routines, identify resource needs, manage dependencies, assess risks, facilitate decisions, and create escalation paths.
• Translate ERD business priorities into practical use cases, detailed requirements, implementation roadmaps, and materials for management updates.
• Monitor project progress, resolve delivery issues, coordinate necessary approvals, and ensure initiatives consistently align with defined scope, value propositions, and business readiness.

Stakeholder Management and Coordination

• Serve as the central coordination point for ERD programs, technical teams, IT, AI Factory, Data Management, Cybersecurity, Finance, Procurement, Legal, external advisors, and vendors.
• Build alignment among diverse stakeholders, including business, technical, control, and leadership teams, who may have varying 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 for leadership.

Required Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant professional experience to effectively manage the complexities of this role.

Application Process

Further details regarding the application process will be provided upon inquiry. The salary for this position is not disclosed.