Head of Investor Relations

Our client is a leading KSA end-to-end Logistics & Infrastructure investment firm. They seek a Head of Investor Relations to develop and support a world-class IR program. The Head of IR will work closely with the CEO, CFO, the Finance division, and the Corporate Communication division to ensure consistent messages are delivered to stakeholders.

**Key Objectives Include**:

- To convey a strong, consistent, and well-understood investment messaging
- Establish a Tier 1 investor relations capability, working according to a defined strategy and calendar
- To educate international financial audiences about the Company, including the strength of its corporate strategy and management
- To create the basis for sustained enhancement of the Companys investor (and other stakeholders) relationships, through a program of regular communication to maintain and strengthen the Companys profile
- To undertake all communications in line with international best practices and relevant market regulations.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Manage regular external reporting activities.
- Continue to develop with the Board, the Companys key messages and ensure data required by the financial markets are provided clearly and concisely on a timely basis, including all regulatory announcements and disclosures.
- Work with the external IR advisory consultancy and internal management to ensure that other corporate press releases of a market-sensitive nature are produced on a timely basis and to the requisite world-class standard.
- Designing, copywriting, and maintaining the investor relations section of the corporate website; and developing other collateral and presentations, including the annual report and investor packs to support analyst/investor outreach.

**Investor targeting/Analyst outreach**:

- Competitor and peer-group analyses; shareholder and bondholder identification.
- Develop an investor targeting program and manage the annual calendar of IR conferences and other events to provide regular contact with the principal bond
- and shareholders and key underweight and non-holders.
- Liaison with external bond
- and shareholder identification service providers.
- Prepare capital markets communications literature and presentations, slide show packs, and roadshow materials.
- Attend key investor/analyst/journalist meetings, where appropriate with the CEO and/or CFO and other Executive Directors.
- Manage periodic investor days and coordinate ad hoc analyst and investor tours, ensuring supporting materials are prepared as necessary.
- Maintain regular contact with buy
- and sell-side analysts, including responding to ad hoc queries.

**Management of IR activities**:

- Prepare an annual investor relations plan and budget for the IR function.
- Monitor analysts forecasts on an ongoing basis, compare with the Companys forecasts, and work to guide expectations as appropriate Monitor share price and valuation of the company.
- Monitor and review analyst reports on the Company and its peers and highlight any key issues for discussion with Executive Management.
- Oversee the production of the Annual Report in conjunction with other relevant business verticals.
- Organize conferences, road shows, earnings conference calls, and investor meetings Run Debt Capital Market IR program.
- Run Capital Markets Days.
- Write the investor relations Board reports to ensure Executive Management is current with the IR function and the financial markets views and concerns.

**Other/ad hoc management**
- Management of IR team.
- Maintaining a database of all investor/broker contacts.
- Create detailed regular (weekly) reports of sell-side and buy-side interaction with the Group CFO/CEO.
- Liaise with the companys retained stockbrokers, investment bankers, and financial PR advisors.
- Manage Rating Agency relationships.
- Write and coordinate aspects of crisis communications, as and when required, ensuring consistency of message and approach.
- Liaise with, and represent the Company, in external stakeholder events and programs (Investor conferences, conference calls, roadshows).

**Requirements**:

- An in-depth understanding of the financial and investment markets.
- Knowledge of and experience in Capital Markets / Corporate IR / Financial Media management Excellent communication skills at all levels and within different mediums.
- Ability to develop relationships both inside and outside the Company.
- Ability to see the bigger picture and contribute to any discussion beyond the specific remit of the role Proactive and organized, with the ability to work autonomously.
- Ability to multi-task and must be well organized; attention to detail; high level of accuracy Ability to respond sensitively and appropriately to confidential issues and information.
- Fluency in both spoken and written Arabic would be an advantage

**Education/Experience**
- Ideally experience within the required sector.
- Previous communications experience would be an advantage,