Senior Strategic Performance Advisor

Saudi Aramco; Saudi Arabia; Presencial; SAR 480.000 - 750.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Saudi Aramco is seeking a Senior Strategic Performance Advisor to join the Corporate Strategy Department. The role translates long-term ambitions into measurable outcomes and provides independent, data-driven insights into strategy execution, monitoring realization and driving reviews.

You will engage with executive leadership, validate metrics, and benchmark performance while coordinating with cross-functional teams to close gaps and ensure value creation.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 15+ years of experience as Strategic Performance Advisor.
• Experience evaluating corporate-level strategy execution and performance outcomes.
• Deep expertise in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) frameworks, systems and best practices.
• Strong project management and change management skills; able to lead new practices.

Responsabilidades

• Advise Corporate Strategy and Executive Management on strategic performance matters with objective analysis and data-driven insights.
• Develop and enhance the strategic performance management framework aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Conduct performance analyses including historical trends and investment impact.
• Analyze investment plans to advise on business strategy options and direction.
• Collaborate with Business Lines and Corporate Functions to validate metrics and reporting standards.
• Lead enterprise-wide strategy execution reviews and diagnose performance gaps.
• Benchmark performance against leading peers and maintain external relationships.

Conocimientos

Strategic analysis

EPM expertise

Stakeholder management

Change management

Executive communication

Leadership

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business Administration, Financial Management or related discipline

Herramientas

EPM Systems

Data analytics tools

Descripción del empleo

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Strategic Performance Advisor to join Corporate Strategy Department.

The Corporate Strategy department directly contributes to the Company’s strategy development and update process through the application of best-practices in the fields of upstream, downstream, new energies and corporate strategy.

Your primary role will be responsible for translating the long-term strategic ambitions into measurable outcomes and provide independent, data-driven insight into the company’s execution of its strategy, monitor realization of strategic intent and facilitate strategy execution reviews and diagnostic assessments to identify and close strategic performance gaps.

Key Responsibilities

As a successful candidate, you will be required to perform the following:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Corporate Strategy organization and Corporate & Executive Management on strategic performance matters, providing objective analysis, data-driven insights, and recommendations.
• Lead the development, deployment, and continuous enhancement of the company’s strategic performance management framework, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and long-term value creation objectives.
• Conduct comprehensive strategic performance analysis, including: historical and forward-looking performance trend analysis, impact of investment plans, organizational execution capability and readiness assessments.
• Analyze business strategies and associated investment plans to develop strategic recommendations on business strategy options, choices, and overall corporate strategic direction.
• Partner with Business Lines and Corporate Function teams to validate performance metrics, tracking methodologies, reporting standards, and corrective actions.
• Facilitate periodic enterprise-wide strategy execution reviews and diagnostic assessments, identifying strategic performance gaps, emerging risks, early warning signals, and areas requiring course correction.
• Benchmark the company’s strategic performance and related processes, practices and technologies against leading peer companies.
• Develop and cultivate key matrix relationships in order to advance strategic performance initiatives that ensure that the Company is effectively and dynamically managing the execution of its strategies.
• Cultivate and maintains strong relationships with industry experts and external consultancies, to keep abreast of key developments in the strategic performance management space and other arenas that could impact the company’s competitive performance.
• Support the Secretariat to the Company’s Group Strategy Committee, ensuring effective documentation and follow-up on decisions and action items.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to junior professionals, fostering capability development and knowledge transfer.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate, you will hold a:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Financial Management or related discipline from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience as Strategic Performance Advisor with at least 5 years in a similar function within a major energy company or consultancy house.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating and validating corporate-level strategy execution and performance outcomes.
• Deep expertise in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) frameworks, systems, and best practices.
• Strong project management, problem solving, and change management skills; must be comfortable leading and facilitating the implementation of new practices.
• Proven ability to quickly build credibility and collaborative relationships across all organizational levels, including executive leadership.
• Good understanding of oil & gas, chemicals, and broader energy market dynamics, including evolving technologies and strategic trends.
• Exceptional English written and oral communication skills. Excellent written and oral communication skills in Arabic is highly desirable.
• Experience coaching and mentoring multinational teams.

Work Location and Work Schedule

Work Location: Within Saudi Arabia – To be specified in Job Offer

Work Schedule: Full Time – To be specified in Job Offer

Job Post Duration

Job posting start date: 10/22/2026

Job posting end date: 01/14/2027

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.