Strategic Delivery Lead, Digital & Analytics Initiatives

Maaden; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Maaden seeks a senior program leader to oversee ERD digital, AI, automation, and analytics initiatives. The role focuses on planning, governance, and business integration across ERD, IT, Data Management, Cybersecurity, Finance, and external partners.

You will translate business priorities into roadmaps, coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, and ensure value delivery from concept to adoption, sustaining improvements across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Geoscience, Business, IT, Data Science, or related field.
• Master’s degree or project/digital/change certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Partnership Development

Relationship Management

Strategic Planning

Business Development

Corporate Communications

Negotiation & Influencing

Risk Assessment

Governance & Compliance

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Geoscience, Business, IT, Data Science, or related

Master's degree or project/digital/change certification preferred

Tools

Job description

Maaden seeks a senior program leader to oversee ERD digital, AI, automation, and analytics initiatives. The role focuses on planning, governance, and business integration across ERD, IT, Data Management, Cybersecurity, Finance, and external partners.

You will translate business priorities into roadmaps, coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, and ensure value delivery from concept to adoption, sustaining improvements across the organization.