We are supporting a progressive mid-tier gold mining company with the appointment of a Vice President, Business Development based in Vancouver.

This is a senior corporate role for a commercially sharp, strategically minded mining professional who can identify, assess, and execute growth opportunities across the gold sector. The company has a strong operating platform, a clear growth agenda, and the ambition to continue building a high-quality portfolio through disciplined business development, partnerships, and transaction execution.

The successful candidate will work closely with the executive leadership team to evaluate strategic opportunities, support corporate growth, and help shape the next stage of the company’s development.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business development strategy across acquisitions, partnerships, investments, joint ventures, and strategic growth opportunities.
• Identify and evaluate gold assets, development projects, operating mines, and corporate opportunities aligned with the company’s growth strategy.
• Conduct commercial, financial, technical, jurisdictional, and strategic assessment of potential transactions.
• Build and maintain relationships with mining companies, advisors, investors, banks, brokers, governments, and industry stakeholders.
• Support M&A processes, including target screening, due diligence, valuation, negotiation, and transaction execution.
• Work closely with geology, technical, finance, legal, operations, and executive teams to assess opportunity quality and execution risk.
• Prepare board-level investment papers, strategic recommendations, market analysis, and transaction materials.
• Monitor gold market trends, peer activity, capital markets conditions, and emerging opportunities across relevant jurisdictions.
• Represent the company professionally within the mining investment and corporate development community.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience in business development, corporate development, M&A, investment banking, private equity, or strategic advisory within mining.
• Excellent understanding of gold mining assets, project development, valuation, due diligence, and transaction structuring.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to assess both opportunity and risk.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships across the mining industry, capital markets, and advisory networks.
• Comfortable working at executive and board level.
• Strong financial modelling, valuation, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the discipline required to work within a listed mining company environment.
• Ability to move between high-level strategy and detailed transaction analysis.
• Based in Vancouver or willing to be based in Vancouver.

Ideal Background

The successful candidate may come from a mining company corporate development team, investment banking, mining private equity, technical advisory, or a senior commercial role within the gold sector.

Experience with gold assets in the Americas, Africa, or other active mining jurisdictions would be highly relevant.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking mid-tier gold company at an important stage of growth. The role offers direct exposure to executive decision-making, meaningful influence over corporate strategy, and the opportunity to help shape a growing gold mining portfolio.

For a business development professional who understands mining, capital markets, and value creation, this is a compelling senior leadership opportunity.

Qualifications/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mine Engineering or related field
• Proven experience in managing mining operations, with a background close to GM level
• Strong leadership and strategic planning skills
• Energetic and ambitious, with a hunger for success
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

How to Apply

If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding role, please send your CV to us at applicants@williamsmining.com.
We'll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

We are supporting a mining client in the Middle East with the appointment of an experienced General Manager to lead site operations, drive safety performance, strengthen operational strategy, and build a high-performing team in a challenging mining environment.

This is a senior leadership role for a proven mining executive who can bring structure, discipline, and clear operational direction to site. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading people, performance, safety, production, cost control, stakeholder management, and long-term operational improvement.

The environment requires resilience, maturity, and the ability to lead under demanding conditions, including difficult weather, remote-site pressure, and complex operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership of mining operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and disciplined site performance.
• Build and maintain a strong safety culture across the workforce, contractors, and leadership team.
• Develop and execute the site strategy, aligned with corporate objectives and production targets.
• Lead, mentor, and strengthen the site leadership team across mining, processing, maintenance, technical services, HSE, HR, supply chain, and finance.
• Drive operational improvement across productivity, cost, equipment performance, workforce capability, and contractor performance.
• Ensure clear systems, reporting structures, accountabilities, and decision-making processes are in place.
• Manage operational risk in a demanding climate and remote-site environment.
• Work closely with corporate leadership, government stakeholders, contractors, and local communities.
• Create a disciplined, performance-led culture where people understand the plan, own their responsibilities, and deliver against agreed objectives.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience as a General Manager, Operations Manager, Mine Manager, or senior site leader within mining.
• Proven track record leading complex mining operations in remote or challenging jurisdictions.
• Strong safety leadership with a visible, practical, and non-negotiable approach to HSE.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate corporate objectives into clear site execution.
• Strong team builder with the ability to develop people, improve culture, and create leadership accountability.
• Experience managing large multicultural teams and contractor workforces.
• Strong commercial understanding of production, costs, budgets, asset performance, and operational planning.
• Calm, decisive leadership style with the ability to perform under pressure.
• Previous experience in the Middle East is highly desirable.
• Experience working in difficult weather conditions, including extreme heat, is strongly preferred.

Ideal Background

The successful candidate will likely have operated in environments where safety, discipline, leadership, and operational control are critical. Prior exposure to mining operations in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, or other harsh-climate regions would be highly relevant.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a significant mining operation in the Middle East and play a central role in shaping its safety culture, operational performance, and leadership capability.

The role requires a leader who can command respect on site, build trust with the workforce, and bring strategic clarity to a demanding operational environment.

If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding role, please send your CV to us at applicants@williamsmining.com.
We'll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

Overview

We are supporting a mining client in West Africa with the appointment of an experienced Project Study Director to lead a critical study phase that will significantly contribute to the client’s Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS).

This is a high-impact, autonomous role suited to a senior project professional who can take ownership of the study process, engage effectively with technical stakeholders, and provide the leadership required to move the project towards a robust feasibility outcome.

The initial contract will run for 6–9 months, with a strong likelihood of extension depending on project progress and feasibility results.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate project study activities contributing directly to the DFS.
• Work autonomously while engaging with internal teams, external consultants, EPCM partners, and technical specialists.
• Drive study schedules, deliverables, risks, assumptions, and reporting requirements.
• Ensure technical inputs are aligned, commercially sound, and suitable for executive and board-level decision-making.
• Provide clear leadership across engineering, mining, processing, infrastructure, permitting, cost estimation, and project controls workstreams.
• Identify key project risks, gaps, opportunities, and value-improvement areas.
• Support the client in moving the project from study phase towards a feasible development pathway.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience leading mining studies, ideally at PFS, DFS, or execution-readiness stage.
• Previous experience working on mining projects in Africa, preferably West Africa.
• Strong understanding of project development, feasibility studies, capital cost estimation, technical trade-offs, and execution planning.
• Ability to operate independently with limited supervision.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across corporate, site, consultant, and contractor environments.
• Bilingual in English and French.
• Comfortable working in complex jurisdictions and emerging mining environments.
• Strong reporting, communication, and decision-support capability.

Ideal Background

The successful candidate will likely have held roles such as:

• Project Study Director
• Study Manager
• Project Director
• Technical Services / Project Development Lead
• Engineering Manager
• Feasibility Study Lead

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to play a central role in shaping the development path of a major mining project in West Africa. The role requires judgement, technical maturity, autonomy, and the ability to bring structure to a critical study phase.

For a senior project professional who understands how to turn technical workstreams into bankable project decisions, this is a strong opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

How to Apply

If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding role, please send your CV to us at applicants@williamsmining.com.
We'll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.