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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 Director, Strategic projects is responsible for leading the planning, execution, and governance of the strategy’s most critical cross-functional initiatives

• This role ensures that high-impact projects are delivered on time, within scope, and in alignment with the

• Group’s strategic and financial objectives. The position combines leadership in corporate development, strategic execution, and stakeholder management across business units, regions, and external partners

• The role ensures end-to-end ownership of strategic projects, from origination to execution and value realization, aligning with the Group’s growth, digital transformation, and shareholder objectives.

• The role together with the team member reporting to the role holder will oversee a wide range of projects and programs.

• One of the initial focus will be the key strategic initiative related to the expansions in scope, and territories of Ooredoo’s push into Data Centers as well AI? GPU as a service.

• While Syntys team is responsible for the day-to-day operation of these assets, the role holder will drive the expansion into new territories which is a key part of the strategy

• It will also include new strategic projects as approved as part of the updated strategy.

• The role holder acts not only as a PMO or project manager but as the project owner, driving the actual content and delivery of the project and providing content expertise in the relevant field.

Your impact on our goals

Experience

• Prior experience of transformation and transaction planning and execution within Ooredoo

• Experience driving large scale transformation projects

• Experience at a Senior Level in a telecom operator in strategy or M&A team at a senior level (CXO or CX-1)

• 15 / 20 years of experience preferable in the Telco industry (not just technical)

• Knowledge and prior experience relating to DC and AI 

• Experience in managing large scale transformation projects

• Experience in managing top management escalations and creating buy-in with stakeholders

• Multi disciplinary cross border program management

• Finance – business planning, valuation, accounting, tax, budgeting, AOP impact assessment, accounting separation

• Employee transfer requirements

• Organisation planning

• Scope specification for transaction advisors

• Contract drafting and negotiation

• Corporate Governance

• Transitional services arrangements

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree – finance or business preferred