Vice President Strategy

Our client is a prominent real estate development company based in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. It specializes in creating master-planned communities, luxury residential properties, and hospitality developments. The company's portfolio includes upscale residential projects, shopping malls, hotels, and resorts, along with retail and leisure properties. Known for its innovative approach, our client focuses on delivering high-quality developments that cater to both local and international markets. Their projects are designed to offer luxury living, community-centric amenities, and sustainable solutions.

Position Summary

The incumbent will be responsible for designing and delivering transformative strategies across the entire enterprise to help build long-term value to all stakeholders. The broad spectrum of work would include strategic advice, decision support, business plan development, financial analysis and modeling, and financial due diligence.

Responsible for

• Building the go-to-market strategy and business case to bring new service(s) to market for existing businesses (real Estate, Hospitality, Retail, Utilities, etc.)
• Work and lead to manage and execute growth strategy, operating strategy and enterprise-wide transformation strategy.
• Leverage strategy and business performance improvement approaches and frameworks
• Lead and deliver large, complex projects that identify, design, and implement creative and efficient business solutions
• Develop and manage project scope, schedule, budget, issue/risks, resources, and quality
• Provide in-depth market, competitor and customer insights, leveraging financial and operational perspectives to implement strategic plans
• Prepare and evaluate financial information to assess trends and fluctuations
• Assist in preparing reports and schedules that will be delivered to the management

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience working & developing strategy, business model, and operating model development, especially in the real estate sector
• Should have experience working in the GCC market
• Should have worked with a top strategy consulting firm, especially in the real estate space
• Should have experience in operation analysis and improvement, process design, process management
• MBA in Strategy (a top-tier university)
• Fluency in English is mandatory, both verbal and written

Stakeholders

• Group CFO
• Deputy Manager Finance
• Senior Executive Finance
• HODs
• Other External Consultants