Senior Manager Strategy and Delivery
Corporate strategy & mandate
Lead assigned workstreams supporting corporate strategy refresh, including mandate clarity, strategic objectives, services portfolio themes, and revenue levers where applicable.
Translate national and shareholder priorities into clear options, trade-offs, and sequencing recommendations for strategy leadership.
Develop workstream-level contributions to multi-year strategic roadmaps, ensuring alignment between ambition, capacity, funding, and delivery readiness.
Execution & performance governance
Lead delivery of planning and reporting inputs for assigned areas, ensuring timely consolidation and quality of submissions.
Support KPI architecture for assigned domains by defining measures, ownership, baselines/targets, and governance notes.
Produce performance deep dives and exception summaries with evidence-based recommendations and corrective actions.
Track strategic initiatives/programs for assigned areas, managing dependencies and escalating decisively where delivery is at risk.
Operating model & institutional maturity
Develop and improve operating model outputs for assigned areas, including decision rights, governance forums, approval pathways, cross-functional interfaces, and process documentation.
Identify execution bottlenecks and propose pragmatic improvements to governance discipline, templates, and cross-functional workflows.
Embed strategy standards and methodologies across workstream outputs through quality assurance and documentation governance.
Executive, board & stakeholder engagement
Lead preparation of committee materials for assigned topics, including decision memos, performance deep dives, and risk assessments.
Facilitate cross-functional workshops to drive alignment, resolve conflicts, and secure decisions.
Coordinate with relevant government entities, regulators, and ecosystem stakeholders as directed to support alignment and coordinated delivery.
People & team leadership
May have 0-2 direct reports depending on structure; lead assigned resources through clear expectations, quality reviews, and coaching.
Contribute to capability building through mentoring and embedding consistent ways of working across the team.
Govern external consultants/advisors on assigned engagements, ensuring quality assurance and knowledge transfer.
Risk, opportunity & value realization
Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities within assigned workstreams and support mitigation actions with clear ownership and timelines.
Track progress toward outcomes/value for assigned initiatives and ensure leadership visibility on impact and required interventions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public policy, economics, engineering, or related discipline (master’s preferred).
- 7+ years of experience in strategy, enterprise transformation, performance management, or management consulting, ideally within large-scale, multi-stakeholder or public-sector environments.
- Demonstrated track record delivering executive-ready materials and leading cross-functional workstreams.
- GCC / KSA public-sector exposure preferred.