Corporate Communications Manager at Euro Staffs

Euro Staffs; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct relocation support

Comprehensive medical coverage

Standard corporate allowances

Executive exposure through EC meetings

Job summary

Unknown entity is seeking a Corporate Communications Manager to build and lead a new communications function in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role covers strategy, narrative, governance, and external communications for a major industrial project with international visibility.

You will own the corporate narrative, oversee media relationships, and develop brand assets while coordinating with shareholders and executive leadership. Relocation support is offered as part of the package.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in corporate communications, incl. at least 3 years leading a function.
• Strong track record with commercial and corporate outcomes.
• Experience building or rebuilding a communications department from scratch.
• Experience in securities disclosure obligations and regulatory timing.
• Heavy industry experience in metals, mining, energy, chemicals, or related infra.
• Proven success communicating major capital projects through construction to launch or transitions.
• Crisis leadership: led reputational, environmental, or operational crises.
• Proficiency in Arabic and English; able to draft publication-ready content without agencies.
• Based in Riyadh with willingness to travel to sites.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategy and narrative architecture for global markets and launch sequencing.
• Build media and reputation by creating regional and international relationships from scratch.
• Oversee brand and digital assets: bilingual website, identity, calendars, assets library.
• Serve as trusted advisor to executives; draft speeches, statements, and investor materials.
• Coordinate with shareholder communications and IR across jurisdictions on disclosures.
• Create multichannel internal/site communications for a multilingual workforce.
• Establish crisis frameworks, holding statements, and drills pre-launch.
• Hire the team, manage budgets, and select agency partners.
• Align equity story with corporate narrative for capital market readiness.

Skills

Strategy & Narrative

Media Relations

Crisis Leadership

Executive Communications

Job description

Corporate Communications Manager

Job Title: Corporate Communications Manager

Location: Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Function: Corporate Communications

Position Type: Permanent, full-time (Relocation supported)

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-Year Expectations

• 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

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.