Job description
Role Overview
Principal Specialist, Partnerships & Stakeholder Management at Ma'aden. This role leads planning, coordination, approval, implementation, and adoption of ERD digital, AI, automation, analytics, and decision-support initiatives with focus on project delivery, stakeholder alignment, governance, and business integration.
Role Purpose
Act as the business integration lead between ERD, IT, AI Factory, Data Management, Cybersecurity, Finance, Procurement, Legal, external advisors, vendors, and implementation partners to ensure initiatives are clearly scoped, approved, delivered, adopted, and sustained.
Key Responsibilities
Project and Initiative Delivery
- 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.
Stakeholder and Governance Management
- 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.
Team and Partner Coordination
- 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.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Geoscience, Business, IT, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- Master's degree or project/digital/change certification is preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, including cross-functional project delivery, stakeholder management, business case development, implementation coordination, and adoption support.
- Experience managing senior-level stakeholders and strategic external relationships.
- Experience in mining, exploration, industrial operations, technology implementation, digital transformation, analytics, or business improvement is preferred.
Skills & Competencies
- Stakeholder Management
- Partnership Development
- Relationship Management
- Strategic Planning
- Business Development
- Corporate Communications
- Negotiation & Influencing
- Risk Assessment
- Governance & Compliance
- Project Management
Additional Information
Success metrics include improved stakeholder satisfaction index, established or enhanced strategic partnerships in line with agreed value objectives, partnership performance meeting agreed objectives, completed stakeholder engagement plans within agreed timelines, effective resolution of stakeholder issues and concerns, consistent governance and reporting requirement fulfillment, and stakeholder engagement effectiveness metrics demonstrating continuous improvement.