Associate Director - Analyst

Client of WhiteCrow Research; Dubai; On-site; AED 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of WhiteCrow Research seeks a senior business analytics professional to drive revenue optimization across attractions and seating capacity planning. You will analyze attraction performance, pricing, and promotions to maximize per-guest spend while ensuring efficient guest flow and wait times.

The role leads pricing strategy, partner revenue share analysis, and budgeting aligned with the group's mandate, requiring 7+ years in analytics and strategic planning within large organizations,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of managerial experience in business analysis and planning.
• Experience in media or leisure & entertainment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Attraction performance analysis including revenue throughput and utilization.
• Queue lengths, wait times, and capacity optimization to improve guest flow.
• Pricing strategy and elasticity analysis to maximize revenue per ride.
• Analyze partner kiosks and outlets performance and pricing/placement.
• Budgeting and business planning aligned with group strategy and shareholder mandates.

Skills

Business analysis

Strategic planning

Data analytics

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Analytics/Economics/Finance

MBA preferred

Job description

Responsibilities

• Attraction Performance Analysis
• Analyze performance of each attraction revenue throughput utilization
• Identify top-performing vs under performing rides
• Evaluate pricings vs demand to detect under priced or overpriced attractions
• Recommend pricing adjustments and promotional strategies

Queue amp Capacity Optimization

• Monitor and analyze queue lengths and wait times
• Identify bottlenecks and propose operational improvements
• Work with operations to improve guests flow and ride capacity utilization
• Support implementation of queue management strategies e g fast track

Revenue amp Pricing Strategy

• Assess effectiveness of pay per ride pricing model
• Conduct elasticity analysis to determine optimal pricing
• Identify opportunities to increase per capita spend
• Support dynamic pricing or bundling strategies where applicable

Partner Revenue Share Performance

• Analyze performance of partner attraction kiosks and outlets
• Revenue per location Conversion rates Average transaction value Identify best performing and underperforming attractions
• Recommend pricing and placement strategies

Budgeting and Business Planning

• Support the team in ORB s Business plan strategy ensure alignment with the group shareholder mandate and integration with the operational arms
• Responsible for the overall ORB business plan consolidation and preparation of presentation
• Review the operational and commercial sustainability of the business plan assumptions and financial parameters
• Challenge the relevant reports to ensure full analysis is conducted for the results Deliver high-quality financial planning and analysis deliverables

Requirements:

• Bachelor s degree in Business, Analytics, Economics, Finance (MBA preferred) or related field
• 7+ years of relevant and managerial experience in business analysis and Planning with a large organization.
• Media and/or leisure & entertainment experience preferred.