VP, Strategy & Business Performance Excellence

flydubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 650,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

flydubai is seeking a senior Strategy and Transformation leader to advance its long-term strategy and drive cross-business improvements. You will direct strategic initiatives, lead organizational design, and foster innovation across IT, AI, IoT, and RPA, ensuring measurable outcomes and ROI.

The role requires 10+ years in business strategy and change management within a large corporate or consulting environment, fluent English, and a track record of delivering significant organizational

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in a relevant field is required.
• Post-degree with major in Logistics and/or IT and/or Project Management and/or Finance and/or Engineering.
• Fluent in English.
• 10+ years’ experience in Business Strategy, Change Management & Organizational Development in a large corporate environment or strategy consulting, with experience managing large change programmes.

Responsibilities

• Leads design and facilitation of departmental strategy workshops to develop medium/long-term strategies and KPIs aligned to corporate goals.
• Defines departmental strategies aligned with Flydubai's long-term strategy and collaborates with department heads for delivery of business effectiveness.
• Drives initiatives to improve On-time Performance, Customer Experience, and survey feedback implementation.
• Acts as project director or steering group member for major initiatives, ensuring structured reviews and successful implementation.
• Directs and manages process improvement projects to raise service levels, revenues, or reduce costs with change management.
• Develops corporate KPI framework for all business units, including ROI assessment for investments.
• Plans and implements action plans around company-wide strategic initiatives and cross-business collaboration.
• Leads Organization Design with HR to ensure fitting structures with measurable metrics over 2-4 years.
• Encourages innovative thinking with IT, Generative AI, IoT, Chatbot, and RPA, driving proofs of concept and cross-business collaboration.
• Reviews manpower submissions with HR, ensuring automation first and justified additions by KPI trends.
• Leads dashboards development (OTP, Customer Experience Metrics) for critical processes and cross-functional reporting.
• Contributes to unit cost trend analysis with finance and benchmarks for best-in-class costs.
• Develops dashboards and BI reports to deliver KPI insights for managers and supports CAPEX investment reviews.

Skills

Fluent in English

Strategic Thinking

Effective Communication

Team work

Decision Making

Business Acumen

Customer Focus

Resilience and Flexibility

Inspiring & Developing Others

Personal Accountability & Commitment

Education

Master's Degree (2+ years)

Post degree in Logistics/IT/PM/Finance/Engineering

Job description

flydubai is seeking a senior Strategy and Transformation leader to advance its long-term strategy and drive cross-business improvements. You will direct strategic initiatives, lead organizational design, and foster innovation across IT, AI, IoT, and RPA, ensuring measurable outcomes and ROI.

The role requires 10+ years in business strategy and change management within a large corporate or consulting environment, fluent English, and a track record of delivering significant organizational