Corporate Communications Manager

Taj HR; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Medical coverage

Corporate allowances

Job summary

Taj HR seeks a Corporate Communications Manager to establish and lead a new communications function in Riyadh. You will own strategy, narrative, governance, and investor relations across multiple jurisdictions while shaping a scalable department.

The role demands bilingual proficiency (Arabic and English), extensive experience in heavy industry communications, and a track record of managing high-stakes corporate messaging from inception through market readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in corporate communications, including at least 3 years leading a function or serving as a deputy group lead in a large enterprise.
• Proficiency in Arabic and English with ability to draft publication-standard content without agencies.
• Experience delivering in securities disclosure environments with a strong understanding of materiality and regulatory timing.
• Heavy industry experience in metals, mining, energy, chemicals, or large-scale industrial infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop the corporate story and message architecture across global markets and plan the launch strategy.
• Build regional and international media relationships from scratch; manage inbound queries and media monitoring.
• Oversee end-to-end brand and digital assets launch, including bilingual website and corporate identity.
• Serve as trusted advisor to executive leadership; draft speeches, statements, and investor narratives.
• Coordinate disclosures with shareholder communications and investor relations across jurisdictions.
• Create multilingual internal and site communications architecture for a growing workforce.
• Establish crisis frameworks, run simulations, and maintain crisis readiness.
• Build operating model, hire the team, manage budgets, and select agency partners.
• Align equity story with the corporate narrative for capital market readiness.
• Complete governance audits and secure disclosure protocols; initiate brand and website agency briefs.
• Launch bilingual website, deploy corporate identity, and run initial agency engagements.
• Establish a fully functioning department with measurable media presence by year one.

Skills

8+ years in corporate communications

Arabic and English writing

Leadership

Crisis management

Budget management

Job description

Job Title: Corporate Communications Manager

Location: Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Function: Corporate Communications

About the Opportunity

We are constructing one of the largest primary metals and industrial complexes in the Middle East - a multi-billion-dollar project backed by international industrial shareholders and a major sovereign investment ecosystem.

Having spent the development phase out of view, we are now transitioning from confidentiality to high international visibility. As there is currently no existing communications function, website, owned channels, or brand system, this appointment represents a ground-floor "build mandate". Everything the organisation communicates publicly over the next decade will begin with this role.

The Role

You will establish the organisation as a credible, disciplined, and internationally legible industrial enterprise. You will own the strategy and execution of our emergence from confidentiality, the overarching corporate narrative, and the governance standards required for an asset backed by listed shareholders across multiple jurisdictions.

This is a true build role. Initially, you will be doing the work personally while directing it - equally comfortable drafting executive remarks late at night and presenting reputation risk strategy to the Board the following morning. (Note: Government relations and regulatory affairs are managed separately).

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Narrative: Develop the corporate story, message architecture across global markets, and the sequenced launch strategy.
• Media & Reputation: Build regional and international media relationships from scratch; oversee inbound queries, spokesperson preparation, and media monitoring.
• Brand & Digital Assets: End-to-end launch of our bilingual website, corporate identity, editorial calendar, and an extensive photo/film asset library.
• Executive Communications: Serve as trusted advisor to executive leadership; draft speeches, statements, opinion pieces, board materials, and investor narratives.
• Shareholder Coordination: Manage disclosure interfaces with shareholder communications and investor relations functions across multiple jurisdictions on a no-surprises basis.
• Internal & Site Communications: Build a multichannel architecture for a rapidly growing, multilingual workforce spread across corporate offices and active construction sites.
• Issues & Crisis Management: Establish and test crisis frameworks, scenarios, holding statements, and simulation drills prior to operational launch.
• Department & Partner Management: Build the operating model, hire the internal team, manage budgets, and select agency partners.
• Capital Markets Readiness: Align the equity story with the corporate narrative to establish securities disclosure discipline in preparation for future capital market activity.
• First Quarter: Complete governance audits; secure approval for disclosure protocols and emergence calendars; initiate brand and website agency briefs.
• First Six Months: Launch the bilingual website; deploy corporate identity; contract primary agencies; establish crisis frameworks and run executive simulations; execute initial controlled announcements.
• End of Year One: Achieve a fully functioning department; establish measurable media presence; finalize launch playbooks; embed systematic executive reporting.

Requirements

Candidate Profile & Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years in corporate communications, including at least 3 years leading a function or serving as a deputy group lead in a large enterprise.
• Corporate Track Record: Strong inside-company track record with direct accountability for commercial and corporate outcomes.
• Building Capabilities: Proven experience establishing or substantially rebuilding a communications department from the ground up.
• Public/Listed Environment: Experience working under securities disclosure obligations, with a strong understanding of materiality and regulatory timing.
• Heavy Industry Experience: Experience in metals, mining, energy, chemicals, or large-scale industrial infrastructure.
• Major Project / Transition: Demonstrated success communicating a major capital project through construction to operational launch, or through major corporate transitions (IPO, listing, carve-out).
• Crisis Leadership: Practical experience personally leading communications through live reputational, environmental, or operational crises.
• Language & Writing Excellence: Proficiency in Arabic and English is required, with the ability to personally draft publication-standard content (op-eds, speeches, statements) without relying on agencies.
• Location: Willingness to be based in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with regular site visits.

Preferred / Advantageous Skills:

• Experience working within or alongside international joint ventures or Chinese-listed enterprise structures.
• Experience preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
• Background in metals, mining, or aluminium.
• Pre-existing network within regional and international industrial/metals trade media.
• Experience within sovereign-backed or state-linked portfolio entities.

What The Role Offers

• Direct reporting line to senior operational leadership and standing attendance at Executive Committee meetings.
• Clear authority over external communications clearance and direct ownership of the department budget and agency selection.
• Clear, milestone-linked progression framework as the organisation advances toward capital market readiness.
• Full relocation support, along with comprehensive medical coverage and standard corporate allowances.