Milaha - Manager - Strategic Initiatives

Job Objective :

The Manager - Strategic Initiatives will report to the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, and will be responsible for leading and executing all internal, operational improvement initiatives being undertaken at Milaha.

Key Roles & Responsibilities :

- Developing the scope, approach and resourcing to address operational issues identified for improvement by leadership

- Conducting the baselining and performance assessment activities and identifying and proposing improvement opportunities

- Develop sustainable and scalable solutions for problem areas that are identified

- Leading design and implementation activities

Key requirements :

- Bachelor's Degree (Essential), Masters (Desirable)

- Minimum 8 years of experience and 3+ years of Management Consulting experience is a must

- Middle East experience desirable

- Proficient in MS Office Suite

- Fluency in English (Essential) and Arabic (Desirable)

- Demonstrated ability to frame/analyse unstructured problems.

- Superb relationship building skills. Ability to effectively influence key decision makers at all levels of management. Collaborative mind-set when engaging cross-functional teams and outside stakeholders.

- Excellent planning and organizational skills. Ability to work independently in a results-oriented, project-driven team environment, while prioritizing projects and delivering quality results within tight timeframes.

- Knowledge of the shipping, logistics, real estate and energy industries is preferred