Director, Strategy, Transformation & Performance

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead formulation, refresh, and cascading of enterprise strategy, translating government and leadership priorities into objectives, plans, and initiatives.
• Advise senior leadership on strategic priorities, complex decisions, and urgent requests.
• Lead strategic studies, benchmarking, and policy or regulatory assessments.
• Translate strategy into initiatives and roadmaps, including digital initiatives, and establish portfolio governance, decision rights, stage-gates, reporting, and benefits tracking.
• Lead strategic and cross-functional initiative delivery, resolving dependencies, risks, and escalations.
• Direct the performance management framework, including KPIs, targets, scorecards, and reviews, and oversee performance reporting to government.
• Present an integrated quarterly view of delivery and results to leadership.
• Set the approach for process excellence and continuous improvement, and sponsor government excellence assessments.
• Lead and develop the department and build alignment with internal and government stakeholders.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise strategy, transformation, PMO, governance, performance management, public-sector advisory, or management consulting.
• Proven experience leading strategy formulation and advising C-suite or equivalent senior leadership.
• Strong record of translating strategy into governed initiatives, implementation roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience leading portfolio governance, performance management, process improvement, or operational-excellence programmes.
• Experience in government or semi-government, real estate, or another regulated sector is strongly preferred; GCC experience is an advantage.
• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, engineering, public policy, management, or a related field; postgraduate qualification preferred.
• Fluency in English is required; Arabic is strongly preferred.

Employment and package

• The posting states full-time employment.
• The package is AED 65,000 per month.

Location

• The project is with an Abu Dhabi government entity.