Ahmed Al-Zahrani has been the vice president of business and services at Sadara Chemical Co. since November 2021. In this role, he is responsible for four main functions — information technology, procurement, site logistics and commercial operations.
Al-Zahrani also serves as the engagement lead for third-party agreements with King Fahad Industrial Port, Saudi Rail, King Fahad Commercial Port, Jubail Royal Commission, and other major Sadara stakeholders in Jubail.
Al-Zahrani is a senior executive at Saudi Aramco and has a wealth of IT experience, impressive functional expertise, and in-depth planning and performance management knowledge. He also worked with Aramco affiliates, including Saudi Basic Industries Corp. and Aramco’s international offices.
He was named the Aramco IT function lead in 2019. This was part of the “New Journey” project, which was started when Aramco bought SABIC.
Al-Zahrani’s job is to look for synergies that come from integration activities, find IT value-creation initiatives, and help the business organization create value through IT system integrations.
At Aramco, he had a number of important leadership and management roles, the most recent of which was manager of the communications operations department. Previously, he was assigned to work with the finance business line, leading support services planning and performance management.
Since 1991, when he joined Aramco, he has worked in many different business and leadership roles. He was in charge of the Centralized IT Program, where he played a key role in laying the groundwork and developing the logistics needed to combine the IT functions at Aramco’s international offices — Aramco Services Co., Aramco Overseas Co., and Saudi Aramco Asia Co. — with the Aramco corporate IT function.
Al-Zahrani was also tasked with investigating the feasibility of consolidating their IT function with the Aramco IT organization and providing full support to their operations.
He holds a master’s degree in business administration from City University in the US, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran.
