Director, Technology Development

Company : Maaden Phosphate Company

Job Description - Director, Technology Development

Description

Job Title: Director, Technology Development

Reporting To: VP, Technology Enablement

Business Unit / Function: Technology & Innovation

Department: Technology Enablement

Grade: M13W

Why This Role Matters

The Director, Technology Development turns Ma’aden’s technology ambition into measurable business value. The role provides enterprise leadership across a diverse portfolio of technology domains, connecting business priorities with specialist expertise and directing investment and execution toward the opportunities with the greatest potential to improve safety, productivity, reliability, growth and operational performance.

The role creates the conditions for technologies to move effectively from discovery and validation into scaled operational deployment. It integrates the work of Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, establishes clear portfolio priorities and governance, and ensures technology solutions are operationally ready, adopted and sustained.

Through disciplined prioritization, executive decision-making and strong technical leadership, the role strengthens Ma’aden’s ability to deploy technology at scale while building the specialist capability required for future growth and operational excellence.

What You Will Deliver Technology Strategy & Portfolio Direction

Shape and execute an integrated Technology Development portfolio that translates enterprise priorities into focused domain strategies, roadmaps and investments.

Prioritize opportunities against business value, strategic relevance, deployment readiness, safety, risk and scalability, balancing near-term performance with longer-term capability.

Integrate priorities across technology domains to reduce fragmentation, strengthen synergies and focus specialist capacity on Ma’aden’s highest-value challenges.

Deployment & Value Realization

Direct the progression of priority technologies from discovery and validation through deployment, adoption and scale, with clear outcomes, ownership and decision points.

Establish measurable value hypotheses, baselines and performance measures that connect technology deployment to operational and business outcomes.

Ensure deployed solutions are embedded into operational workflows and tracked through sustained adoption and value realization.

Portfolio Governance & Execution

Establish a disciplined portfolio operating model covering investment decisions, stage gates, resource allocation, risk, technical assurance and executive performance reviews.

Strengthen execution by ensuring priority initiatives have robust business cases, accountable ownership, realistic deployment plans and operational sponsorship.

Resolve critical dependencies and competing priorities across functions, assets and technology domains, redirecting resources where needed to protect delivery and value.

Technical & People Leadership

Lead and develop Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, preserving their technical authority while aligning domain priorities and performance to common enterprise outcomes.

Build a high-performance culture founded on safety, technical rigor, accountability, collaboration, innovation, knowledge transfer and delivery discipline.

Strengthen succession and critical technology capability through targeted development, external expertise and strategic partnerships.

Enterprise Alignment & Influence

Align business units, Operations, Engineering, Technology & Innovation and corporate stakeholders around technology priorities, investment choices and deployment roadmaps.

Provide senior leadership with clear insight into portfolio performance, value, risks and investment trade-offs to strengthen decision-making.

Shape external technology partnerships that accelerate access to relevant expertise, solutions and capabilities while protecting Ma’aden’s strategic and operational interests.

What Success Looks Like

Technology investments are concentrated on clearly prioritized opportunities with defined business outcomes, sponsorship and measurable value.

Priority technologies progress efficiently from discovery and validation into operational deployment, adoption and scale.

Deployed technologies deliver sustained improvements in targeted safety, productivity, reliability, cost, growth or operational performance measures.

Portfolio governance enables timely investment, continuation, scaling or stop decisions based on evidence, readiness, risk and realized value.

Chief Specialists and senior SMEs operate as aligned enterprise technical authorities with strong succession, knowledge transfer and capability development.

Business and technology stakeholders align around integrated roadmaps, clear accountabilities and transparent portfolio performance.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Mining, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, Mechatronics, Automation, Systems Engineering or a related discipline.

Experience

20+ years of progressive experience across engineering, technology deployment, operations, major projects or other relevant asset-intensive environments.

Significant experience in mining, processing, manufacturing, infrastructure, energy or heavy industry, with exposure to operational performance, safety and technology-enabled transformation.

Demonstrated experience leading senior specialists or multidisciplinary technical teams and delivering through complex matrix organizations.

Proven experience developing technology strategies, governing enterprise portfolios and progressing solutions from discovery and validation through scaled operational deployment and sustained value realization.

Skills That Matter

Technology strategy, maturity assessment and scaled deployment

Enterprise portfolio prioritization and investment governance

Business value and benefits realization

Mining, processing and industrial technology

Technology assurance, safety and operational risk

Program, portfolio and stage-gate governance

Financial and commercial decision-making

Executive stakeholder and partnership management

Leadership of senior technical experts

Change leadership, capability building and knowledge transfer

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