Manager, Strategy & Commercial Advisory

About the role

Integrated event planning

• Lead planning workstreams, turning event objectives into coordinated plans with milestones, owners, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Work with functional leads to resolve planning gaps and conflicting requirements; facilitate workshops and maintain action, decision, risk, and issue records.
• Develop governance and reporting arrangements, and support readiness planning by identifying evidence gaps and coordinating corrective actions.

Advisory and team responsibilities

• Contribute to venue operating models, business planning, feasibility assessments, benchmarking, and sports strategy, governance, and commercial advisory assignments.
• Manage client relationships in English and Arabic, lead Arabic-language deliverables and presentations, and build networks across Saudi sport, events, and destinations.
• Manage workstream scope, plans, resourcing, budgets, quality, and deadlines; coach and mentor junior colleagues.
• Support proposals and RFP responses, lead research and analysis, develop recommendations, and contribute to business development and internal improvement.

Experience and qualifications

• Experience planning a mega-event or comparable complex international event and coordinating multiple functions, milestones, and dependencies.
• Strong strategy and advisory skills, including structured problem-solving, research, options appraisal, and recommendations.
• Experience with integrated workplans, planning workshops, governance, and decision records.
• Ability to produce concise reports, executive presentations, and planning tools; strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Fluent written and spoken Arabic and English; able to travel within the Kingdom and internationally, sometimes at short notice.

Preferred and additional experience

• Expo planning experience is strongly preferred; relevant experience from other mega-events is also considered.
• Management consultancy experience is desirable; equivalent advisory experience from an organising committee, host organisation, or delivery partner is relevant.
• Experience with Saudi government entities, giga-projects, or PIF-backed organisations is included among the desired experience.
• Understanding of Vision 2030 and the Kingdom’s sports and events sector is sought; familiarity with Etimad or similar public-sector procurement is an advantage.

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