About the Role
You will own the strategic planning and performance cycle for the company, including the development of the North Star driver model, OKR and initiative portfolio planning, and producing executive and board reports. Your goal is to ensure that leadership decisions are made based on current, reconciled numbers that can be traced back to specific drivers.
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Key Accountabilities
Strategic Planning and Analysis
- Maintain planning and analysis for key metrics including revenue, reservations, ARPR, SCR, ADR, LOS, and take rate.
- Reconcile targets, actuals, and variances on a monthly basis.
- Execute diagnostic analysis to attribute revenue and reservation gaps to primary and supporting drivers, converting these attributions into defined actions with assigned owners and deadlines.
- Build and maintain scenario and sensitivity models for pricing, segmentation, and destination planning.
- Support the annual and quarterly planning cycle, including target setting and monthly ramp management.
Performance Management
- Own the OKR planning process, which includes defining objectives, key results, initiative cards, scoring, and milestone tracking.
- Manage the monthly performance cycle and data cut-off, including variance reviews, commentary drafting, and publication according to a fixed calendar.
- Ensure all commitments and initiatives align with the required performance outcomes.
- Maintain the metric definitions library and enforce consistency in definitions across all published reports.
Executive and Board Reporting
- Produce the monthly executive report, quarterly one-pager, and board materials meeting a consistent standard, including action titles, concise 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 for all figures leaving the department; ensure that no numbers are published without traceable sources and clear definitions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, engineering, finance, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or related functions within marketplace, e-commerce, or travel platforms.
- Demonstrable experience in executive and board reporting, including action-titled decks, one-pagers, and KPI trees.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets with the ability to build and audit multi-driver financial models.
- Strong analytical skills are essential.
- Bilingual (Arabic and English) is preferred.
- Experience in the KSA or wider GCC market, particularly in travel, hospitality, or short-term rental sectors.
- Familiarity with OKR frameworks and planning practices.
- Background in pricing, revenue management, or customer segmentation.
