Manager - Digital Strategy
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Shape and drive the digital and technology strategy for AD Ports Group. Lead strategy formulation, conduct analysis, facilitate planning cycles, and prepare executive presentations.
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Job Description
Responsible for shaping, driving, and communicating the strategic direction of AD Ports Group's digital and technology agenda.
The role serves as the analytical and strategic backbone of Digital & Technology, translating enterprise-wide ambitions into actionable roadmaps that accelerate digital transformation, improve operational performance, and create long-term competitive advantage.
The Strategy Manager works at the intersection of business strategy, technology innovation, and organizational change.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead the formulation, refresh, and communication of the Digital & Technology multi-year strategy and along with more domain-specific enabling strategies, ensuring alignment with AD Ports Group's Group Strategy and cluster-level priorities.
- Develop strategic frameworks, internal and external analysis and research, and opportunity assessments to evaluate new digital capabilities, technology transformation, and innovation initiatives.
- Facilitate annual and mid-cycle strategy planning cycles, including horizon scanning, capability gap analysis, and strategic initiative prioritization.
- Translate complex strategic concepts into clear, executive-ready narratives, presentations, and decision papers for the C-suite and Board.
- Lead the preparation of reporting and communication materials to AD Ports Group’s majority shareholders.
- Own and govern the Digital & Technology strategic roadmap, working closely with the Strategic Project Manager for tracking initiative progress, interdependencies, and key performance milestones.
- Monitor global technology trends, emerging digital business models, and the competitive landscape across ports, logistics, maritime, and smart infrastructure sectors.
- Conduct benchmarking studies and best-practice analyses to identify strategic gaps and growth opportunities for Digital & Technology across a range of themes including cybersecurity, AI& Automation, cloud computing etc.
- Produce periodic strategic intelligence reports and insights briefs for leadership consumption.
- Serve as a key liaison between the Digital & Technology team and Group Strategy, Corporate Functions and Business Unit leadership.
- Support governance mechanisms in the form of committees and forums, preparing materials and tracking action items.
- Engage with external strategic advisors, technology vendors, government entities, and industry bodies to advance the Group's digital agenda.
- Define and monitor strategic KPIs and OKRs across the Digital & Technology portfolio, providing regular performance reviews and variance analyses.
- Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms to enable leadership visibility into digital strategy execution and value delivery.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics or a related field, from an accredited institution.
- Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent) is a plus.
A Global Player
Through organic growth and partnerships, AD Ports Group has developed over the years into an integrated premier enabler of trade, industrialisation, and economic diversification.
Established by Emiri Decree and owned by ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi’s diversified economy.
AD Ports Group is committed to building elite trade and logistics propositions.
As trade has grown, so have we.
Today, we are an integrated business across 5 clusters – Digital, Economic Cities & Free Zones, Logistics, Maritime, and Ports connecting global maritime routes and international trading partners.
About The Team
We offer exciting opportunities to people from different backgrounds and nationalities through internal career advancement programmes.
Once a member of our staff, you have the chance to grow horizontally and vertically throughout your career journey with us.
“We are proud to be the first organization from the Middle East region to receive the prestigious Investors in People (IIP) Platinum accreditation.”
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