Corporate Strategy Director Etisalat Dubai UAE

Etisalat UAE is presently seeking qualified and experienced candidates for the post of Corporate Strategy Director in Dubai. This career opportunity was recently published by Etisalat on their LinkedIn profile. Desirous candidates should send their applications before due date.

Role of Corporate Strategy Director

Support the design of the E2E process that will enable Corporate Strategy formulation and update by ensuring full HOD buy-in 2. Conduct strategy workshops with HODS and use strong negotiation skills to ensure strategy is translated into tangible outputs.

Responsibilities of Corporate Strategy Director

• Support in the development of the market sizing and market/ competitive trends analysis for Etisalat UAE 4.
• Perform a critical review of the market sizing estimates and market/ competitive trends analysis across the UAE market prepared by other stakeholders.
• Perform a critical review of etisalat by e& functional strategies for the purposes of informing the design of the Corporate Strategy.
• Coordinate with executive stakeholders to support the design of detailed charters for Strategic Programs thus enabling strategy execution.
• Work closely and support Finance to align Corporate Strategy with Budget/5YSBP.
• Conduct functional alignment workshops with key stakeholders to ensure functional/ departmental strategies are fully aligned in practical terms with the corporate strategy.
• Prepare Board related input, including and not limited to: Strategy communication elements, Strategy Board presentation, strategic justification to support management’s proposed financial targets, Board updates on emerging strategy topics etc.
• Prepare strategy assignments around key topics with deliverables that lead to operational execution and/or facilitates effective management decision making.
• Identify the strategy related risks originating from the Corporate Strategy broken down by the different levels of the ERM framework.
• Prepare the Corporate Strategy related KPI dashboard. Coordinate with the Business Performance Team to capture KPIs as part of HOD/ departmental scorecards.
• Support and execute CEO/HOD assigned projects.
• Prepare an effective communications program to update targeted stakeholders with relevant strategy related messages. Work with Internal Communications Department to ensure communications plan roll-out and execution.
• Support Etisalat UAE and Group in achieving optimal positioning with external stakeholders.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s in Business related field, Engineering.
• 10 years of experience within Corporate Strategy development gained either in a another telco and/or consultancy.

Required Skills

• Excellent planning skills.
• Effective Communication skills.
• Time Management skills.

Expert Corporate Strategy & Planning, Transguard Group UAE