Team Ma’aden:
Investing in the Real Asset

To be world-class, Ma’aden has long recognized that it needs to attract, retain and support world-class staff, right across our business. This is true all the way from the boardroom to the frontline operational staff working on projects across the world. Ma’aden’s Human Resources Committee provides oversight, support and guidance to ensure that Ma’aden has HR systems and practices in place which enable us to deliver on our wider vision and strategy.

We now have 5,837 staff, over 70% of whom are of Saudi nationality. It is a young workforce, with an average age of 36 years. 70% of the workforce are Saudi nationals and a significant proportion of whom work in remote areas.

One of our key focuses this year has been around unlocking the power of our people – with an effort to standardise our reward structure and to improve mechanisms for staff engagement, in addition to investment in new digital systems to support staff more effectively. This strand of activity has benefitted from leadership at the very highest level, with our CEO leading a new Human Resources Committee with members of Executive Management.

This commitment to improving our practice has helped us to advance a number of company wide initiatives both to attract new talent, and to reward existing talent – leading to a decrease in staff turnover, and the retention of staff who are core to the business.