Head Specialist in Integrated Planning

Job description

About Ma'aden Ma'aden is looking for a head of integrated planning to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is key to creating a unified view of priorities, demand, resources, dependencies and delivery across technology enablement. This position links strategic objectives with implementation, enabling leadership to make informed decisions on investment and ability to implement important initiatives for Ma'aden. Purpose of the Role The Senior Integrated Planning Specialist improves decision quality by transforming complex portfolio information into clear priorities, scenarios and trade-offs. This includes integrating technology roadmaps, business demand, delivery milestones, resource requirements, and performance insights to ensure initiatives are realistically sequenced, ready to execute, and aligned with business needs. Through disciplined planning, governance and performance visibility, the role aims to improve portfolio visibility, anticipate constraints, facilitate early intervention, stronger accountability and more predictable execution via enabling technology. Key Responsibilities Form and embed an integrated planning framework that links technology enablement priorities, demand, roadmaps, resources, dependencies and expected outcomes. Translate strategic priorities into actionable annual, quarterly, and rolling plans with clear sequencing, milestones, ownership, and decision points. Enhance implementation readiness by ensuring plans are realistic, aligned with business needs, and supported by appropriate governance. Integrate technology demand, portfolio initiatives and transformation priorities into a unified enterprise planning view. Drive prioritization, capabilities and dependency analysis to enable informed trade-offs Knowledge of sequencing, resources and delivery commitments. Align roadmaps across business, technology, finance, procurement, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, and operational stakeholders. Establish consistent planning and portfolio management to provide leadership with visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, constraints and required timely decisions. Create executive-level dashboards, scorecards, and decision insights to enhance portfolio performance management and corrective actions. Define common planning standards, performance metrics and escalation criteria to improve consistency and accountability through technology enablement. Translate complex portfolio and planning information into clear scenarios, recommendations, and decision options for the Technology Enablement team and VP. Anticipate implementation risks, constraints and dependencies across the portfolio, enabling intervention before they materially impact delivery. Provide advice on portfolio adjustments, resource trade-offs, and sequencing decisions to protect strategic outcomes and execution priorities. Create alignment across business functions and technology domains and enable functions to resolve competing priorities and critical planning dependencies. Facilitate planning and prioritization forums for organizations that lead to clear decisions, ownership and follow-up. Strengthen planning capacity, tools and practices through continuous improvement and transfer of knowledge and lessons learned. Qualifications and Experience A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required for this role. Success Factors Success in this role is measured by several key outcomes, including technology enablement that works from an integrator's perspective Current information on priorities, demand, capacity, dependencies, milestones and expected outcomes. Portfolio and resource decisions will be supported by clear priorities, evidence-based trade-offs, and transparent planning insights. Critical dependencies, capacity constraints and implementation risks will be identified and escalated early enough for effective intervention. Leadership will have consistent, timely visibility and decision-making on portfolio health, performance and areas where action is required

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• · Qualifications and Experience A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required for this role

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