Director, Strategy and Performance Management

The Commercial & New Payment Flows (CNPF) team is seeking a director to drive our CNPF strategy and execution forward by working together with cross-functional and cross-country teams. The Mission of the Director, Strategy and Performance Management function is to provide thought leadership to the Management Team and ensure the goals and objectives of CNPF are successfully executed in the market. The role requires instituting an internal/external consultative approach to help the business achieve its goals.

Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic projects for the CNPF Organization (design and execution), structuring complex challenges and delivering data-driven, fact-based solutions.
• Build strong business partnerships with leaders in the divisions/countries, Pricing & Strategy team, and Services team.
• Help business leaders across the region gain key insights into business performance by market and segment, and identify key strategic priorities.
• Contribute to the strategic planning process and development of execution against the strategic plan, monitoring and driving progress against the plan.
• Proactively assess the economic landscape of key markets and articulate how it influences the company’s business and key account objectives.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of monitoring dashboards to track key financial and market metrics.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in consulting/strategy and managing large-scale project execution, with strong analytics experience and ability to work with large datasets.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey strategic vision to internal and external stakeholders and influence at the highest levels.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional projects and influence key stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships at multiple levels of the organization.
• Experience working across business units, functions, and international markets in a collaborative environment.
• Track record of thought leadership within the payments industry and knowledge of CNPF.
• A customer-focused, team-oriented, and solution-driven approach.
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of data analytics tools and coding is a plus (Alteryx, Python, R, SQL, Power BI, Tableau).
• Strong sense of urgency, comfortable operating in a fast-paced and changing environment.

Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to the company assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization, and therefore it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, the company is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by the company’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach; and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with the company’s guidelines.