Manager - Strategic Planning & Economic Development

Qiddiya Investment Company is in search of a Manager for Strategic Planning & Economic Development. This pivotal role will be responsible for shaping the strategic vision for economic development initiatives within our world-class entertainment and leisure project. The ideal candidate will leverage strategic planning frameworks to drive economic feasibility studies, project assessments, and comprehensive market evaluations, ensuring alignment with Qiddiya's long-term goals.

In this role, you will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, ranging from governmental bodies to private sector partners, to enhance the economic landscape of Qiddiya while harnessing innovative strategies for sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Strategy & Mandate

• Lead assigned workstreams supporting corporate strategy refresh, including mandate clarity, strategic objectives, services portfolio themes, and revenue levers where applicable.
• Translate national and shareholder priorities into clear options, trade-offs, and sequencing recommendations for Strategy leadership.
• Develop workstream-level contributions to multi-year strategic roadmaps, ensuring alignment between ambition, capacity, funding, and delivery readiness.

Execution & Performance Governance

• Lead delivery of planning and reporting inputs for assigned areas, ensuring timely consolidation and quality of submissions.
• Support KPI architecture for assigned domains by defining measures, ownership, baselines/targets, and governance notes.
• Produce performance deep dives and exception summaries with evidence-based recommendations and corrective actions.
• Track strategic initiatives/programs for assigned areas, managing dependencies and escalating decisively where delivery is at risk.

Operating Model & Institutional Maturity

• Develop and improve operating model outputs for assigned areas, including decision rights, governance forums, approval pathways, cross-functional interfaces, and process documentation.
• Identify execution bottlenecks and propose pragmatic improvements to governance discipline, templates, and cross-functional workflows.
• Embed Strategy standards and methodologies across workstream outputs through quality assurance and documentation governance.

Executive, Board & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead preparation of committee materials for assigned topics, including decision memos, performance deep dives, and risk assessments.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops to drive alignment, resolve conflicts, and secure decisions.
• Coordinate with relevant government entities, regulators, and ecosystem stakeholders as directed to support alignment and coordinated delivery.

People & Team Leadership

• May have 0–2 direct reports depending on structure; lead assigned resources through clear expectations, quality reviews, and coaching.
• Contribute to capability building through mentoring and embedding consistent ways of working across the team.
• Govern external consultants/advisors on assigned engagements, ensuring quality assurance and knowledge transfer.

Risk, Opportunity & Value Realization

• Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities within assigned workstreams and support mitigation actions with clear ownership and timelines.
• Track progress toward outcomes/value for assigned initiatives and ensure leadership visibility on impact and required interventions.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Policy, Economics, Engineering, or related discipline (Master’s preferred).
• 5+ years of experience in strategy, enterprise transformation, performance management, or management consulting, ideally within large-scale, multi-stakeholder or public-sector environments.
• Demonstrated track record delivering executive-ready materials and leading cross-functional workstreams.
• GCC / KSA public-sector exposure preferred.

Benefits:
Offering a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.