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VAC9827 - Associate Director-Strategic Projects

  • Field:
    Business Services
  • Contract Type:
    Full Time - Permanent
  • Location:
    Qatar - Doha
  • Closing Date:
    03-Mar-2026
Our business landscape

We’re an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region’s leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group’s strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:

  • Value-Focused Portfolio:  Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea cable business and fintech.

  • Strengthen the Core: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure.

  • Evolve the Core: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.

  • People: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.

  • Excellence in Customer Experience: Creating superior customer experiences.

From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you’re looking to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.

Job overview

  • The role-holder supports the Group Strategy and M&A department in driving the Group’s most critical cross‑functional strategic initiatives. The role plays a pivotal part in shaping, structuring, and executing high‑impact projects aligned with the Group’s growth agenda, with an initial focus on data centers and AI/GPU‑as‑a‑service, as well as other new strategic projects of the Group

  • The role holder acts as an extension of the project owner, ensuring content leadership, rigorous execution, and end‑to‑end delivery across multiple workstreams.

Your impact on our goals

Strategic Initiative Delivery

  • Support the planning, design, and execution of cross‑functional strategic initiatives in alignment with Group strategic and financial objectives.

  • Co‑own project scopes, delivery plans, and executive materials, ensuring clear articulation of problems, approaches, and strategic options.

  • Drive structured analysis, business cases, commercial models, and recommendations for senior leadership.

Content Leadership & Subject-Matter Support

  • Develop substantive content in areas related to data centers, AI/GPU-as-a-service, and new adjacencies.

  • Conduct market scans, competitor intelligence, partner assessments, and scenario modelling to guide strategic choices.

  • Translate conceptual strategy into actionable workstreams with measurable KPIs and milestones.

Project Governance & Cross-Functional Coordination

  • Lead governance routines (e.g. SteerCos, cross‑BU checkpoints) and track progress across all stakeholders.

  • Coordinate with Group and OpCo teams across commercial, operations, technology, finance, legal, procurement, etc.

  • Ensure risks, dependencies, and escalation points are well-managed and communicated.

Expansion of Data Center and AI/GPU Strategy

  • Provide support in driving the territorial and scope expansion of Ooredoo’s data center and AI/GPU offerings.

  • Work closely with Syntys on performance insights while leading the strategic expansion and new territory feasibility assessments.

  • Evaluate partnership, JV, or M&A opportunities for the expansion of Data Centers and AI/GPU offerings.

Strategic Project Origination & Pipeline Support

  • Assist in shaping the pipeline of new strategic projects approved under the updated Group strategy.

  • Evaluate new initiatives, structure problem statements, define approach, and provide analytical leadership during early-stage exploration.

Executive Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Prepare executive-level presentations, Board papers, and investor communications related to strategic projects .

  • Communicate complex strategic topics succinctly to senior executives, shareholders, and external partners.

  • Represent the department in cross-organizational discussions with senior management and external stakeholders.

Experience

  • Minimum 15 years of experience in strategy, corporate development, management consulting, investment analysis, in telco industry or digital infrastructure.

  • Experience in data centers and AI infrastructure strongly preferred.

  • Proven track record managing cross-functional initiatives with senior‑level exposure.

  • Experience structuring financial/business models and strategic assessments

Skills and competencies

  • Strong strategic thinking and structured problem-solving.

  • Excellent analytical and financial modelling capabilities.

  • High-level communication and executive presentation skills.

  • Ability to manage ambiguity and lead cross-functional alignment.

  • Understanding of digital infrastructure, AI technologies, and emerging tech trends preferred.

  • Project ownership mindset with ability to drive end-to-end execution.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, or related field.

  • Master’s degree (MBA, Strategy, Finance, or Technology Management) preferred

  • Must have worked in developing markets, ideally in a multinational environment

Note: you will be required to attach the following:
  1. Resume/CV
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