Corporate Strategy Execution Manager

We're Hiring: Corporate Strategy Execution Manager
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a globally focused organization committed to translating strategic priorities into measurable business outcomes across diverse markets. Our teams combine strategy, operations, finance, technology, commercial, and functional expertise to coordinate enterprise priorities and drive disciplined execution.
We work across business units and functions to establish clear objectives, align resources, monitor performance, manage strategic initiatives, and ensure that corporate strategy translates into coordinated action and sustainable results.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Corporate Strategy Execution Manager to lead the governance, coordination, tracking, and delivery of enterprise strategic initiatives and corporate priorities.
The ideal candidate will work closely with senior leadership and business-unit leaders to translate strategic objectives into actionable plans, establish accountability, monitor progress, resolve execution barriers, manage dependencies, and provide transparent reporting on strategic performance and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and implement frameworks for translating corporate strategy into executable initiatives and measurable business outcomes.
Establish strategy-execution methodologies, governance standards, planning processes, and reporting frameworks.
Translate corporate objectives into strategic priorities, initiatives, workstreams, milestones, and measurable targets.
Develop enterprise strategy-execution roadmaps covering short-, medium-, and long-term priorities.
Coordinate annual and multi-year strategic planning and execution cycles.
Work with executive leadership to clarify strategic objectives, priorities, outcomes, and success measures.
Establish clear ownership, accountability, decision rights, timelines, and deliverables for strategic initiatives.
Develop initiative charters, business cases, implementation plans, milestones, and resource requirements.
Maintain an enterprise portfolio of strategic initiatives and transformation programs.
Prioritize strategic initiatives based on business value, strategic alignment, urgency, feasibility, risk, and available resources.
Establish governance mechanisms for monitoring strategic initiative performance.
Coordinate executive steering committees, strategy reviews, portfolio reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
Prepare executive agendas, dashboards, decision papers, status reports, and action logs for strategy-governance forums.
Track strategic initiatives against approved objectives, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and expected benefits.
Monitor progress across business units and functions and identify execution delays, risks, bottlenecks, and resource constraints.
Challenge initiative status and assumptions to ensure reporting reflects actual execution performance.
Escalate material execution risks, delays, dependencies, and decisions requiring executive intervention.
Develop recovery plans for initiatives that are behind schedule, over budget, or failing to achieve expected outcomes.
Coordinate cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies and remove execution barriers.
Facilitate alignment between corporate strategy and business-unit strategies, operating plans, budgets, and functional priorities.
Ensure strategic initiatives are reflected in annual business plans, budgets, resource allocations, and performance objectives.
Work closely with Finance to connect strategic initiatives with financial plans, investment requirements, forecasts, and benefits.
Track strategic investment allocation and assess whether resources remain aligned with approved priorities.
Monitor financial and non-financial benefits associated with strategic initiatives.
Establish benefits-realization frameworks and track expected versus actual outcomes.
Develop business cases for strategic investments, transformation programs, growth initiatives, and major corporate projects.
Support evaluation of strategic options through financial analysis, scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and risk assessment.
Coordinate strategic reviews to assess market developments, competitive conditions, operational performance, and changing business priorities.
Monitor external and internal developments that may require changes to strategic priorities or execution plans.
Conduct portfolio scenario analysis to assess the impact of resource constraints, market changes, delays, or new opportunities.
Identify opportunities to simplify, accelerate, consolidate, or discontinue initiatives based on performance and strategic relevance.
Establish consistent project and initiative health indicators across the enterprise.
Develop dashboards covering strategic progress, milestones, financial performance, benefits, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
Consolidate performance information from business units and validate the quality and consistency of strategic reporting.
Develop executive-level insights and recommendations rather than relying solely on status reporting.
Maintain decision logs, action trackers, strategic assumptions, risks, issues, and dependency registers.
Ensure executive decisions are translated into clear actions, ownership, deadlines, and follow-up mechanisms.
Monitor completion of executive actions and strategic commitments.
Support leadership workshops, strategy sessions, annual planning meetings, and strategic offsites.
Facilitate cross-functional workshops to align teams around strategic objectives and execution priorities.
Develop communication materials that clearly explain strategic priorities, initiatives, expected outcomes, and organizational responsibilities.
Support organization-wide communication of major strategic initiatives and transformation priorities.
Coordinate with Corporate Performance, Enterprise PMO, Finance, Strategy, Operations, and Business Unit leadership teams.
Establish consistent governance between strategy, portfolio management, performance management, budgeting, and transformation management.
Identify opportunities to improve strategy-execution processes, tools, governance, and organizational capabilities.
Promote disciplined execution, accountability, transparency, evidence-based decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Evaluate strategy-management and portfolio-management technologies, dashboards, workflow tools, analytics, and automation opportunities.
Explore the use of AI and advanced analytics to improve strategic monitoring, scenario analysis, forecasting, and executive decision support.
Maintain strategic planning documentation, initiative portfolios, business cases, governance records, performance reports, and decision materials.
Benchmark strategy-execution practices against relevant industries and leading organizations.
Provide management with regular assessments of strategic execution performance, major risks, benefits realization, and recommended interventions.
Key Performance Indicators
Strategic initiative delivery rate
Strategic priority execution rate
Strategic milestone achievement
Initiative schedule adherence
Strategic portfolio health
Initiative completion rate
Strategic objective achievement
Benefits-realization rate
Actual versus planned benefits
Strategic initiative ROI
Strategic investment performance
Strategic budget adherence
Resource allocation alignment
Strategic resource utilization
Cross-functional dependency resolution time
Strategic risk closure rate
Strategic issue resolution time
Executive action completion rate
Decision implementation rate
Strategic reporting accuracy
Executive reporting timeliness
Strategy-to-budget alignment
Strategy-to-operating-plan alignment
Business-unit strategy alignment
Initiative prioritization effectiveness
Initiative recovery success rate
Strategic portfolio optimization
Initiative cancellation or consolidation effectiveness
Strategic planning cycle completion
Scenario-planning completion
Strategic review completion
Transformation milestone achievement
Stakeholder satisfaction
Governance compliance
Strategic KPI performance
Strategic performance data quality
Initiative resource capacity coverage
Strategic communication effectiveness
Strategy-execution process improvement
Strategic capability development
Executive decision-support effectiveness
Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate should have strong experience in corporate strategy execution, strategic planning, transformation management, enterprise PMO, corporate performance management, management consulting, business operations, or strategic program management, preferably within large, complex, multinational, or diversified organizations.
The candidate should demonstrate:
Strong understanding of corporate strategy, strategic planning, and enterprise execution processes.
Experience translating strategic objectives into initiatives, roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

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