About the Job
Own the company'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.
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Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Key Accountabilities
Strategic Planning and Analysis
- Maintain the planning and analysis for the main metrics including revenue, reservations, ARPR, SCR, ADR, LOS, and take rate.
- Keep 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 commitments and initiatives are translated into the required performance outcomes.
- 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 including 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 ensuring 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, capable of building and auditing a multi-driver model end to end.
- Strong analytical skills are essential.
- Bilingual is preferred (Arabic, English).
- 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.
