Manager - Strategic Projects

Posted 16 Days Ago
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Dubai, ARE
In-Office
Senior level
Fitness • Retail • Hospitality
The Role
Own strategic initiative workstreams, manage timelines and stakeholders, analyze business data, conduct market research, generate actionable insights, and support implementation. Develop presentations for senior stakeholders, establish KPIs, track milestones and benefits, and contribute to continuous improvement across a multinational retail and hospitality organization.
Summary Generated by Built In
  • Workstream Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of key workstreams within larger strategic initiatives. Manage project timelines, deliverables, day-to-day stakeholder interactions for your assigned areas of work.
  • Rigorous Data Analysis: Leverage structured problem-solving skills and advanced analytics to deconstruct business problems, testing hypotheses to draw clear, fact-based business conclusions
  • Research & Market Insights: Conduct secondary research (e.g., competitor benchmarking, consumer trends, operational metrics) as required, to identify growth opportunities and areas for driving business value
  • Insight Generation & Story-lining: Synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights. Build well-structured, high-impact presentations and confidently present your findings to functional stakeholders
  • Implementation & Tracking: Bridge strategy and execution by facilitating the rollout of approved recommendations. Support the establishment of KPIs, track project milestones, and report on the realization of business benefits
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate effectively with peers and mid-to-senior stakeholders across the Landmark Retail ecosystem to gather data, validate findings, and drive alignment
  • Continuous Improvement: Actively contribute to the Team’s knowledge base and culture. Demonstrate a high degree of curiosity, proactively seeking feedback and learning new strategic methodologies
Qualifications
  • Education: MBA from a top-tier/prestigious business school.
  • Experience: 5 to 7 years of experience, with a strong foundation in top-tier management consulting OR a central corporate strategy/internal consulting role within a large, complex multinational
  • Industry Knowledge: Experience in Retail, D2C, E-commerce or Consumer Goods is highly preferred
  • Analytical Rigor: Advanced proficiency in data analysis, and hypothesis-driven problem solving. (Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills are mandatory)
  • Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills. Proven ability to articulate complex concepts clearly and confidently to mid-to-senior level management.
  • Agility & Problem Solving: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and structuring undefined problems. Highly agile, with the ability to pivot between different types of projects 
  • Project Management: Detail-oriented, highly organized, and deadline-driven. Capable of managing multiple tasks and workstreams simultaneously without compromising on quality.

Team Dynamics: A collaborative, proactive team player who takes ownership of their work while supporting the broader objectives of the strategic projects team 

About Us

Our journey started in 1973 with a single store in Bahrain. Since then, we have grown into a global retail and hospitality group. The proud creator of 25 plus value led, own-built brands across retail, hospitality, food, and leisure.

Over the years, our UAE - based group has evolved into a comprehensive retail and hospitality entity, with over 2200 retail stores, leisure, and hospitality outlets, panning the GCC, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Today, Landmark Group is one of GCC's largest omnichannel retailers and India's top home and fashion retailer.

We take immense pride in the organic growth of our retail brands, which have blossomed into household names. From Max, Splash, Babyshop, Centrepoint, Shoemart, Homecentre, Emax, Fitness First, to Funcity, to name a few, our brands span across a multitude of categories, enriching the lives of countless families over the past decade.

Skills Required

  • MBA from a top-tier or prestigious business school
  • 5 to 7 years of experience
  • Strong foundation in top-tier management consulting or corporate strategy/internal consulting within a large multinational
  • Advanced data analysis and hypothesis-driven problem-solving skills
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
  • Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to articulate complex concepts to mid-to-senior management
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and structure undefined problems
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and workstreams simultaneously
  • Retail, D2C, e-commerce, or consumer goods experience
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The Company
HQ: Dubai
30,112 Employees
Year Founded: 1973

What We Do

Founded in 1973 in Bahrain, Landmark Group has grown to become one of the largest and most successful omnichannel retail and hospitality conglomerates, with presence across 17 countries in the Middle East, Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Based in the UAE since 1990, the Group owns and operates 21 established homegrown and 4 franchise brands across an extensive network of more than 2,200 outlets, encompassing a gross leasable area of 30 million square feet. Landmark Group's success is driven by its diverse portfolio of established brands, across multiple retail categories, offering a comprehensive range of products across fashion, home, groceries and electronics. These include Centrepoint, Max Fashion, Home Centre, Babyshop, Splash, Shoemart, Lifestyle, Viva, Emax, Home Box, Styli, Shoexpress, Spar and Easybuy. Beyond retail, Landmark Group has diversified into the leisure, fitness and hospitality sectors with brands like Fitness First, Citymax, Fun City, Fun Ville, Zafran and Carluccio’s. The Group boasts unparalleled logistics capabilities, owning the MENA region's largest privately-owned distribution hub - Omega Logistics and Logistiq, which offers state-of-the-art third-party logistics services. Landmark Group places a strong emphasis on delivering exceptional value and achieving customer satisfaction throughout its comprehensive product range. Across its loyalty programmes, the Group enjoys a loyal customer base with more than 35 million active users. The company has a dedicated workforce of more than 53,000 employees and continues to be certified as a Great Place to Work (GPTW) since 2017.

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