Principal Specialist, Business Partner – BMNM

Job Purpose

• Acts as the primary business partner for the Gold & Base Metal business, ensuring all domains deliver tangible value across our current Gold operations, including future base metal ops and positioning Maaden as the world’s leading technology-enabled miner
• Works closely with Domain Integrators and Chief Specialists to tailor domain solutions to Gold-specific operational, geological, and economic contexts
• Ensures alignment of KPIs, value outcomes, and initiatives impacting the Gold & Base metals business
Create alignment with the Business Unit senior leadership and the capital projects teams to get the alignment of how the TechOps Domains will be influenced and influence the delivery of value from the domain

Key Accountabilities:

• Drive the delivery
• Represent & collate the Gold / Base Metal business priorities, KPIs, and value objectives in domain-level initiatives
• Ensure domain solutions reflect Gold operational realities, risk profiles, and performance drivers
• Act as the single coordination point between Gold leadership and domain teams
  

• Work with Domain Integrators to translate domain objectives into Gold-specific initiatives and use cases
• Collaborate with Chief Specialists to shape solutions that address Gold & Base metal business needs, aligned with the Full Potential team
• Support Technical Initiative Leads with Gold-specific business context and success criteria to determine the value creation from full potential opportunities identified in collaboration
  

• Ensure initiatives impacting the Domains align with agreed KPIs, value targets, and investment priorities for the BMNM Domain Mission and annual objectives
• Support prioritization and sequencing to maximize Gold & Base metal value realization
• Track and support realization of benefits across Gold & Base Metal initiatives
  

• Support development of technology enablement requirements from different platforms that are part of the tech stack
• Ensure alignment of processes, operating models, and performance management to mature Operational excellence contribution to the TechOps enablement program
• Act as a trusted advisor to Gold / Base Metal leadership on domain-driven initiatives
  

Minimum Qualification, Experience and Skills:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Geology, Operations, or Business
  

Minimum Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Geology, Operations, or Business

• 12+ years’ experience in Gold/Base Metal operations or business roles

• Strong understanding of mining operating models and economic drivers

• Experience supporting cross-functional or technology-enabled initiatives

• Proven ability to operate across business units and specialist teams
  

Core Competencies:

• Gold / Base Metal operational optimisation and value drivers' identification

• Business partnering in asset-intensive environments

• KPI and value-focused decision making

• Strong stakeholder influence