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Established in 2004, Dubai Holding is a global investment company with investments in more than 34 countries and a combined workforce of nearly 45,000 individuals. In line with the vision of Dubai’s leadership and economic diversification strategy, Dubai Holding companies have nurtured sectors, irrevocably transforming Dubai’s socio-economic landscape and positioning Dubai as a diversified, globally integrated economy.

Dubai Holding is committed to the diversification of Dubai’s non-oil economy. Our portfolio, valued at over AED 284+ billion, spans 10 sectors, including real estate, hospitality, leisure & entertainment, ICT, design, education, media, retail, manufacturing & logistics, and science.

Dubai Holding is looking to hire an Associate Director – Strategy & Value Creation Office reporting to the Senior Vice President – Strategy & Value Creation Office. The role holder will be responsible for working closely with the Senior Vice President in defining strategic objectives, identifying value creation opportunities, and operationalising the strategy to ensure Dubai Holding (DH) meets its financial and sustainable growth objectives. The role holder is also responsible for driving day-to-day activities of the programs and projects in close coordination with the businesses and other teams across DH entities.

If you are ready to embark on a dynamic journey where your talents are valued, where your talents are recognized, and your impact is felt every day. If so, we would like to hear from you.

Key Accountabilities:

• Work closely with the Senior Vice President to establish a rigorous framework that provides perspective on the modus operandi, governing topics such as strategy development, business case development, qualification process, risk management and program management.
• Contribute to the development of strategy and business models to generate realistic financial and operational targets over a 3-to-5-year horizon and ensure achievement of targets via the identification of significant strategic initiatives.
• Manage the development of plans by playing a lead role in all the planning activities performed in establishing and reviewing key strategic priorities and translating them into actionable and tangible initiatives.
• Analyze and interpret multiple, often ambiguous, data points to generate clear conclusions and actionable initiatives.
• Keep up to date with micro and macro-economic factors in order to map assumptions regarding the future performance and develop new approaches to achieve financial goals.
• Synthesize data and information from various sources such as macroeconomic trends, competitor analysis, operational performance, regulatory changes, market trends, etc. to develop resilient strategic options.
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry to assess impact on the overarching strategy and advise the management on the changes required.
• Ensure that the strategic planning process highlights existing business issues, making certain that these issues are thoughtfully addressed.
• Review the reports on updates including quantitative data on key industry and internal trends for Senior Management to use in various thought leadership initiatives such as press releases, white papers, and keynote addresses.

• Define and assess the readiness of strategic programs and cross-cutting initiatives ensuring that they are set up for success aligned with Dubai Holding’s business objectives and priorities, including the identification of programs and projects that are required to deliver on targets, in collaboration with the stakeholders across the business group.
• Manage programs and projects; identifying and structuring problems; analysing root causes; developing and recommending solutions; mitigating identified risks, while managing a complex stakeholder landscape and industry specification in collaboration with the functional points of contact across verticals.
• Design and develop execution tools enabling the programs/ projects to be delivered following a clear methodology in partnership with functional leads at the verticals across the group, cascading across various functions where relevant.
• Define effective and sustainable delivery milestones of strategic transformational programs, maintaining high standards of program management, enabling and sharing best practices.

• Develop and monitor the execution of all programs, to ensure these programs best position Dubai Holding to meet its current and future business needs.
• Act as the point of contact for assigned Dubai Holding Strategy and Value Creation programs, including coordinating program planning, sequencing, and cross-functional integration and resourcing; critically assessing execution and proactively mitigating and managing any program delivery risks.
• Provide updates and recommendations to SVP and other key stakeholders, including regarding transformation progress and performance, risk assessments, benefits realization, and business readiness.
• Negotiate and secure buy-in from respective verticals, business units and stakeholders to ensure the success of projects.
• Support the relevant stakeholders in monitoring the risks related to assigned program, prepare high level mitigation action plans and periodic reports to be implemented by the owner.
• Prepare GCEO/board-level reports on performance progress of relevant programs and initiatives.
• Develop standards and best practices of program and project management to achieve consistency of delivery and solving for challenges faced throughout design and execution.

• Manage cross-functional initiatives and ensure on-time delivery with high level of accuracy.
• Ensure regular information exchange with all relevant stakeholders and update them on the development progress across projects.
• Build relationships and maintain strong partnerships with key personnel to help achieve organisational goals.

• Contribute to the development of presentations on business cases, research, progress across key mandated objectives, performance and communicate results across the organisation.
• Responsible for the preparation of business presentations and reports related to Strategy & Value Creation for various stakeholders, on periodic and ad hoc basis as and when required.

Who we are looking for:

• 6+ years experience in a strategy role within consulting or similar organisations.
• Good knowledge of the real estate industry gained through direct industry experience or several strategy projects in the sector.

Education/ Professional Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Advanced degree, preferably MBA from a top-tier institution.

Technical Competencies:

• Strong analytical mindset for structured problem solving, structuring complex problems and potential solutions.
• In-depth experience in program and project management, strategy planning and business development.
• Proven ability to lead programs and projects, ability to build strong relationships and manage stakeholder dynamics.
• Ability to communicate complex matter simply and achieve buy-in.
• Strong business communication and presentation skills with proven experience managing executive-level communications.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload.
• Strong English (Speaking, Reading and Writing) with exceptional business writing.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Customer Focus
• Results Orientation
• Business Awareness
• Curious & Creative
• Sense of Urgency
• Adaptability & Flexibility
• Builds Relationships
• Empowerment
• Problem Solving & Decision Making
• Planning and Organizing
• Communication Skills
• Teamwork

As much as we would be delighted to entertain all applicants, due to the high volumes of applications, only successful applicants will be contacted within 14 business days.

This job description is not all inclusive. Dubai Holding reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. Dubai Holding is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.