Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Performance Management

Our business landscape

We’re an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region’s leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group’s strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:

• Value-Focused Portfolio: Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea cable business and fintech.

• Strengthen the Core: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure.

• Evolve the Core: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.

• People: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.

• Excellence in Customer Experience: Creating superior customer experiences.

From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you’re looking to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.

Job overview

• This role will be responsible for supporting the strategic planning & performance management, engaging with all key stakeholders (Group and OpCos) and supporting to drive both the design and execution of the strategic engagement processes, doing required research, financial/ competitive & business model analysis and derive from techno-commercial trends implications for the strategic planning & performance management activities.

Strategic Planning

• Conducting the strategic planning & performance management team scope of activities (planning frameworks, required analysis, modelling, competitor/financial analysis, techno-commercial and business model perspective)
• Support the design of the strategic planning process as part of the annual groupwide planning process
• drive, prepare and follow-up on the strategic planning discussions to align & support the group strategic direction agreed by the Ooredoo board
• develop and provide as a core input to the annual planning market sizing and forecasts for the relevant footprint markets, support the discussion with OpCo CEOs and CCOs and align with commercial group functions in this context
• conduct the competitive tracking for the respective footprint markets together with the Opcos and leverage state of the art methods to track
• provide the strategic planning insights as input to the strategic dialogue with the group management committee and the Ooredoo board
• provide strategic input and feedback on the OpCo performance management meetings and follow-through
• participate in the group strategy leadership team (SLT) where required with the OpCo strategy heads, draft respective agendas to support strategic alignment
• support the execution of the Group Leadership team meetings (GLT) that are chaired by the GCSO with regards to agenda setting, moderation and execution

Performance Management

• apply appropriate performance management tools to ensure Top Management is aligned with company objectives.
• Track the scorecards of all C-Levels in the Group inclusive GCEO, DGCEO and RCEO as well as the OpCo/CEO scorecards inclusive of supporting the target setting process with MD, DGCEO, RCEO and group functions
• Prepare respective proposals for board committees proposals for the scorecards and scorecard achievement
• Assess the scorecard achievements by top management as input to RNC discussions by the head of strategic planning & performance management.
• Assess CXO scorecard proposals of Opcos (as provided to their boards) to comply with group requirements

Strategic Projects

If bandwidth provides, to develop for strategic themes such as fiber a strategic viewpoint and coordinate if needed the work of external consultants

Your impact on our goals

STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Conducting the strategic planning & performance management team scope of activities (planning frameworks, required analysis, modelling, competitor/financial analysis, techno-commercial and business model perspective)
• Support the design of the strategic planning process as part of the annual groupwide planning process
• drive, prepare and follow-up on the strategic planning discussions to align & support the group strategic direction agreed by the Ooredoo board
• develop and provide as a core input to the annual planning market sizing and forecasts for the relevant footprint markets, support the discussion with OpCo CEOs and CCOs and align with commercial group functions in this context
• conduct the competitive tracking for the respective footprint markets together with the Opcos and leverage state of the art methods to track
• provide the strategic planning insights as input to the strategic dialogue with the group management committee and the Ooredoo board
• provide strategic input and feedback on the OpCo performance management meetings and follow-through
• participate in the group strategy leadership team (SLT) where required with the OpCo strategy heads, draft respective agendas to support strategic alignment
• support the execution of the Group Leadership team meetings (GLT) that are chaired by the GCSO with regards to agenda setting, moderation and execution
• Support strategy communication in the organization

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• apply appropriate performance management tools to ensure Top Management is aligned with company objectives.
• Track the scorecards of all C-Levels in the Group inclusive GCEO, DGCEO and RCEO as well as the OpCo/CEO scorecards inclusive of supporting the target setting process with MD, DGCEO, RCEO and group functions
• Prepare respective proposals for board committees proposals for the scorecards and scorecard achievement
• Assess the scorecard achievements by top management as input to RNC discussions by the head of strategic planning & performance management.
• Assess CXO scorecard proposals of Opcos (as provided to their boards) to comply with group requirements

STRATEGIC PROJECTS

If bandwidth provides, to develop for strategic themes such as fiber a strategic viewpoint and coordinate if needed the work of external consultants

Experience and Qualifications

• 15+ years’ experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified of which minimum of 3-4 years in a leading strategy consulting firm and minimum of 4 years in the telecom industry
• Strong modelling & financial analysis skills
• Strong techno-commercial understanding
• Strong competitive & market understanding of our telecom markets
• Superb ability to synthesize strategic themes, and present strategic rationale & analysis in compelling presentations
• Pragmatic and flexible work approach and ability to perform in a fast paced environment
• Previous experience in two or more work environments
• Experience working in a group’s strategy or planning unit is a plus – within a telecom group a strong plus
• Ability to engage with senior business leaders
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to collect data, establish facts, and structure valid conclusions
• Experience in international/ emerging markets
• Experience with strategy or planning development
• Strong PowerPoint presentation and Excel modeling skills
• Bachelor’s degree
• MBA (CFA or equivalent Master’s degree) required