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— Sector Practice 04 of 06

Operating leadership for the region’s build decade.

Heavy industry, energy transition platforms, materials businesses and the giga-project pipeline reshaping the GCC turn to JOH Partners for the chief executives, chief operating officers, chief sustainability officers and project directors that get build-decade institutions running.

Sector Practice 04 of 06

Industrials & Infra

Heavy industry, energy transition, materials and the GCC's giga-project pipeline. CEO, COO, CSO and project leadership mandates.

— Spotlight

Leaders for the giga-pipeline.

The Gulf’s build-decade is unprecedented. NEOM, the Red Sea, Diriyah, ROSHN, the Trojena project, Lusail’s next phase, and a continuous pipeline of energy-transition platforms across petrochemicals, hydrogen and materials.

Each demands operating leadership that has actually built things at scale. The candidates we’re placing into Saudi industrial groups have run capex programmes of $5B+, navigated regulator-heavy environments, and held delivery accountability across multi-year horizons.

Our industrials practice partners with sovereign principals, project boards and operating company chairs to source the COOs, project directors and CSOs the giga-pipeline now needs at depth.

— Recent Mandates

The seats we’ve closed in Industrials.

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CEOSaudi materials platform

PIF-backed industrial

Hired from a global building-materials group; closed in 11 weeks.

Closed in 11 weeks
Project DirectorNEOM region

Giga-project execution arm

Senior delivery leader from European megaproject.

Closed in 13 weeks
Chief Sustainability OfficerDoha / GCC

Petrochemicals platform

First-time CSO with credible decarbonisation track record.

Closed in 10 weeks
COORiyadh utility

Sovereign-owned utility

Operating leader for grid-modernisation programme.

Closed in 12 weeks
Head of Capital ProgrammeUAE infrastructure platform

$8B capex programme

International infrastructure executive.

Closed in 11 weeks
MD HydrogenSaudi · East Coast

Hydrogen platform

Senior hire from a global energy major.

Closed in 14 weeks
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