Strategy Manager

About the role

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 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.

Skills

• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets
• Multi-driver financial modeling
• Scenario and sensitivity analysis
• OKR planning and tracking
• Executive and board reporting
• Pricing and revenue management
• Customer segmentation
• Data analysis and variance analysis
• Clear and concise reporting
• Stakeholder communication