Chief Specialist, Business Integration Partner – GGM

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM); Riyadh; On-site; SAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ma'aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM) seeks a Chief Specialist, Business Integration Partner – BM&NM, reporting to the VP, Technology Enablement. This role partners BM&NM leadership to translate business priorities into technology enablement initiatives and measurable business value.

This role ensures technology solutions reflect BM&NM operating realities, manages KPIs and value realization, and coordinates across technology domains for coherent execution focused on measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Geology, Mining, Operations, Business Administration, Technology Management, or a related discipline. Master’s Degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Represent and consolidate BM&NM business priorities, KPIs, value objectives, and operational needs within technology enablement initiatives.
• Ensure technology solutions reflect BM&NM operating realities, risk profiles, production constraints, and performance improvement drivers.
• Act as the single coordination point between BM&NM business leadership and Technology and Innovation domain teams.
• Translate business challenges into practical technology-enabled use cases, requirements, and value opportunities.
• Partner with domain integrators, chief specialists, and technical initiative leads to shape BM&NM-specific initiatives and technology use cases.
• Support the development of technology enablement requirements across platforms, applications, data, automation, AI, and operational technology solutions.
• Ensure initiatives are aligned with BM&NM operating models, process maturity, performance management requirements, and adoption readiness.
• Provide business context and success criteria to determine value creation from full-potential and technology-enabled opportunities.
• Govern the alignment of BM&NM technology initiatives with agreed KPIs, value targets, investment priorities, and annual objectives.
• Support prioritization and sequencing of initiatives to maximize business value, operational impact, and implementation feasibility.
• Track benefit realization across BM&NM initiatives and highlight risks, dependencies, adoption barriers, and value leakage.
• Maintain coherence between domain-level technology roadmaps and BM&NM strategic business outcomes.
• Enable business adoption by aligning processes, operating models, ways of working, and performance routines with technology-enabled changes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to BM&NM leadership on technology enablement priorities, business impact, risks, and adoption requirements.
• Coordinate change readiness inputs, stakeholder alignment, decision support, and benefit tracking for major technology initiatives.
• Ensure initiatives are embedded into daily operations and contribute to measurable operational excellence outcomes.
• Prepare executive-level inputs, insights, and recommendations to support prioritization, investment decisions, and value governance.
• Facilitate alignment between BM&NM leadership, Technology Enablement, domain teams, and initiative owners.
• Escalate strategic risks, decision points, interdependencies, and resource constraints impacting BM&NM value delivery.
• Provide practical business guidance to ensure technology solutions remain focused on outcomes, usability, and operational impact.

Skills

BM&NM partnering

Stakeholder management

Mining operating models

Value drivers

Digital transformation

Use case shaping

Benefit tracking

Portfolio prioritization

KPI governance

Change readiness

Executive communication

Decision support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Job Title: Chief Specialist, Business Integration Partner – BM&NM

Reporting to: VP, Technology Enablement

Business Unit / Function: Technology and Innovation

Department: Technology Enablement VP Office

Grade: M13

Position Type: Regular

Why This Role Matters

This role acts as the primary business integration partner for the Base Metals and New Minerals business, ensuring Technology and Innovation initiatives are translated into measurable business value. It connects business priorities, operational realities, performance drivers, and technology enablement domains to support value realization, adoption, and coherent execution across current and future BM&NM operations.

What You Will Deliver

BM&NM Business Alignment

• Represent and consolidate Base Metals and New Minerals business priorities, KPIs, value objectives, and operational needs within technology enablement initiatives.
• Ensure technology solutions reflect BM&NM operating realities, risk profiles, production constraints, and performance improvement drivers.
• Act as the single coordination point between BM&NM business leadership and Technology and Innovation domain teams.
• Translate business challenges into practical technology-enabled use cases, requirements, and value opportunities.

Technology Enablement Integration

• Partner with domain integrators, chief specialists, and technical initiative leads to shape BM&NM-specific initiatives and technology use cases.
• Support the development of technology enablement requirements across platforms, applications, data, automation, AI, and operational technology solutions.
• Ensure initiatives are aligned with BM&NM operating models, process maturity, performance management requirements, and adoption readiness.
• Provide business context and success criteria to determine value creation from full-potential and technology-enabled opportunities.

Value Governance, KPIs & Portfolio Coherence

• Govern the alignment of BM&NM technology initiatives with agreed KPIs, value targets, investment priorities, and annual objectives.
• Support prioritization and sequencing of initiatives to maximize business value, operational impact, and implementation feasibility.
• Track benefit realization across BM&NM initiatives and highlight risks, dependencies, adoption barriers, and value leakage.
• Maintain coherence between domain-level technology roadmaps and BM&NM strategic business outcomes.

Adoption, Change Readiness & Business Value Realization

• Enable business adoption by aligning processes, operating models, ways of working, and performance routines with technology-enabled changes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to BM&NM leadership on technology enablement priorities, business impact, risks, and adoption requirements.
• Coordinate change readiness inputs, stakeholder alignment, decision support, and benefit tracking for major technology initiatives.
• Ensure initiatives are embedded into daily operations and contribute to measurable operational excellence outcomes.

Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Decision Support

• Prepare executive-level inputs, insights, and recommendations to support prioritization, investment decisions, and value governance.
• Facilitate alignment between BM&NM leadership, Technology Enablement, domain teams, and initiative owners.
• Escalate strategic risks, decision points, interdependencies, and resource constraints impacting BM&NM value delivery.
• Provide practical business guidance to ensure technology solutions remain focused on outcomes, usability, and operational impact.

What Success Looks Like

• BM&NM business priorities are clearly translated into technology enablement initiatives, requirements, and measurable value outcomes.
• Technology solutions reflect BM&NM operating realities, performance drivers, risks, and future growth needs.
• Initiatives are prioritized, sequenced, and governed based on KPIs, investment priorities, and benefit realization potential.
• Adoption risks, dependencies, and value leakage are identified early and actively managed with business and technology stakeholders.
• BM&NM leadership receives trusted advisory support and clear decision inputs for technology-enabled transformation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Geology, Mining, Operations, Business Administration, Technology Management, or a related discipline. Master’s Degree is preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 12 years of experience in Base Metals, New Minerals, mining operations, business transformation, technology enablement, or operational excellence roles.
• Strong understanding of mining operating models, business value drivers, production performance, cost drivers, risk profiles, and operational improvement levers.
• Demonstrated experience partnering across business leadership, technology teams, domain specialists, and initiative owners to deliver cross-functional value.

Skills That Matter

• BM&NM business partnering and stakeholder management
• Mining operating models, value drivers, KPIs, and operational excellence
• Technology enablement, digital transformation, and business integration
• Use case shaping, business requirements, value case development, and benefit tracking
• Portfolio prioritization, KPI governance, initiative sequencing, and investment alignment
• Change readiness, adoption enablement, and operating model alignment
• Executive communication, decision support, facilitation, and issue escalation
• Commercial awareness, analytical thinking, influence, collaboration, and outcome orientation