Principal Specialist Partnerships &stakeholder Management

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Principal Specialist for Partnerships & Stakeholder Management. This full-time role is based in the Khurais oil field and focuses on leading the planning, coordination, approval, implementation, and adoption of digital, AI, automation, analytics, and decision-support initiatives within the ERD division. The position emphasizes project delivery, stakeholder alignment, governance, and business integration, rather than hands-on technical development.

Role Context and Integration

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

Key Responsibilities

• Manage approved initiatives from concept and business case development through planning, design coordination, testing, deployment, adoption, and post-implementation review.
• Develop comprehensive 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, and various internal and external stakeholders.
• Build alignment among business, technical, control, and leadership stakeholders with diverse priorities and expectations.
• 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 achieve 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.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience. The role requires a professional who can effectively manage complex projects and stakeholder relationships in a dynamic environment.

Performance Indicators

• Improved stakeholder satisfaction index.
• Strategic partnerships established or enhanced in line with agreed value objectives.
• Partnership performance meets agreed objectives.
• Stakeholder engagement plans completed within agreed timelines.
• Stakeholder issues and concerns resolved effectively.
• Governance and reporting requirements consistently met.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in stakeholder engagement effectiveness metrics.

Application Process

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