
Gathern
Strategy Manager
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaPosted 1 weeks ago
- Salary
- AED 8k–12k a month· est.
- Job type
- Full time
- Level
- Lead
- Field
- Data & Analytics
- Work mode
- On site
About the role
JOB PURPOSE: Own Gathern’s strategic planning and performance cycle end to end including the North Star driver model, the OKR and initiative portfolio planning, and the executive and board reporting built on top of them, so that leadership decisions are made on numbers that are current, reconciled and traceable to a driver. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: Strategic planning and analysis - Maintain the planning and analysis for the main including revenue, reservations, ARPR, SCR, ADR, LOS and take rate. - Keeping targets, actuals and variances reconciled every month. - Run diagnostic analysis that attributes revenue and reservation gaps to primary and supporting drivers, and convert the attribution into named actions with owners and dates. - Build and maintain scenario and sensitivity models for pricing, segmentation and destination planning. - Support the annual and quarterly planning cycle, including target setting and the monthly ramp. Performance management - Own the OKR planning: objectives, key results, initiative cards, scoring and milestone tracking. - Run the monthly performance cycle and data cut-off, variance review, commentary drafting and publication to a - fixed calendar. - Ensure all the commitments and initiative are translated into the required performance outcome. - Maintain the metric definitions library and enforce definition consistency across every published report. Executive and board reporting - Produce the monthly executive report, the quarterly one-pager and board materials to a consistent standard: action titles, three to four lines of commentary, and internally consistent metrics. - Prepare pre-reads and decision papers for the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors. - Act as the quality gate on numbers leaving the department. No figure is published that cannot be traced to a source and a definition.
Requirements
- - Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, engineering, finance or a related quantitative discipline.
- - 5+ years of experience, including strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or a strategy or business-operations function inside a marketplace, e-commerce or travel platform.
- - Demonstrable executive and board reporting: action-titled decks, one-pagers and KPI trees.
- - Advanced Excel or Google Sheets, able to build and audit a multi-driver model end to end.
- - Analytical skills is a must.
- - Bilingual is preferred (Ar, En).
- - KSA or wider GCC market experience, particularly in travel, hospitality or short-term rental.
- - Exposure to OKR frameworks and planning practices.
- - Experience in pricing, revenue management or customer segmentation.
Responsibilities
- Strategic planning and analysis
- - Maintain planning and analysis for revenue, reservations, ARPR, SCR, ADR, LOS and take rate; reconcile targets, actuals and variances monthly; run diagnostic analyses to attribute revenue and reservation gaps to drivers and translate into actions with owners and dates; build scenario and sensitivity models for pricing, segmentation and destination planning; support annual and quarterly planning cycles including target setting and monthly ramp.
- Performance management
- - Own OKR planning (objectives, key results, initiative cards, scoring, milestone tracking); run monthly performance cycle, data cut-off, variance review, commentary drafting and publication; ensure commitments and initiatives translate into performance outcomes; maintain metric definitions library and enforce consistency across reports.
- Executive and board reporting
- - Produce monthly executive report, quarterly one-pager and board materials with consistent standard (action titles, concise commentary, aligned metrics); prepare pre-reads and decision papers for Executive Committee and Board of Directors; act as the quality gate on numbers to ensure traceability to sources and definitions.
Skills
- Advanced Excel
- Google Sheets
- multi-driver modelling
- pricing
- revenue management
- customer segmentation
- OKR framework
- executive and board reporting
- scenario and sensitivity analysis
- data analysis
- KPIs and KPI trees
- strategic planning
- financial analysis
- variance analysis
- dashboarding
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