2 532 Management Role jobs in the United Arab Emirates

Well established and highly successful organisation in Abu Dhabi, competing at an international scale.

• Leading the strategic planning process, facilitating strategic dialogues across business units and functions to align objectives and priorities with company vision

• Developing and maintaining a comprehensive strategic roadmap, identifying key growth opportunities and assessing potential risks and challenges

• Overseeing the development of robust business cases to support strategic investments and initiatives, ensuring thorough financial and operational analysis

• Establishing and driving a comprehensive performance management framework, including the definition of key performance indicators (KPIs), target setting and performance monitoring mechanisms

• Leading a team of professionals within the strategic planning and performance management function, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting their professional development

• Collaborating closely with finance, operations, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment between strategic objectives and operational execution

• Presenting strategic plans and performance reports to the executive leadership team and the board of directors

• A strong academic background, ideally with a Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field

• A proven track record of success working for an international consulting firm within the Middle East. The ideal candidate will have a blend of both consulting and in-house industry strategic planning experience

• Highly desirable sector experience within the utilities industry, demonstrating a strong understanding of the sector's dynamics and challenges

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and translate it into actionable insights

• A hands-on, proactive approach and a demonstrated ability to both develop strategy and drive implementation

• Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience in managing and developing a team

• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership through your story telling expertise

Well established and highly successful organization in Abu Dhabi, competing on an international scale.

• Lead the strategic planning process, facilitating dialogues across business units to align objectives with the company's vision.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive strategic roadmap, identifying growth opportunities and assessing risks.
• Oversee the development of business cases supporting strategic investments, ensuring thorough financial and operational analysis.
• Establish and drive a performance management framework, including KPIs, targets, and monitoring mechanisms.
• Lead and mentor the strategic planning and performance management team, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Collaborate with finance, operations, and other stakeholders to ensure strategic and operational alignment.
• Present strategic plans and performance reports to executive leadership and the board.

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• Proven success in an international consulting firm within the Middle East, with both consulting and in-house strategic planning experience.
• Sector experience in utilities, with a strong understanding of its dynamics.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and data interpretation skills.
• Proactive, hands-on approach with experience in strategy development and implementation.
• Strong leadership and team management capabilities.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with storytelling expertise for influencing senior leadership.

This role holder is responsible to monitor all branch/Direct-Sales/ business activities and performance ensure that all activities are aligned with SOPs banks standards and regulatory requirements and also in line with overall plans and strategy. This role holder is also responsible to work on solutions for any identified lapses gaps and new requirements.

Revenues/ Budget:

Monitoring the overall yearly BSC KPIS

Monitoring revenue

Monitoring Business Acquisition

Cost Efficiency

NPS

Direct Reports:

FAB Islamic Finance

Islamic Portfolio

Business Planning & Support - Islamic

Strategic Contribution

• Ensure effective cascading of the functional strategy into department business plans to ensure vertical alignment and horizontal integration with other interfacing departmental strategies.
• Create and implement companys strategies and action plans that incorporate key actions that work to set KPIs for the business and the organization

People Management

• Demonstrate exceptional leadership skills portraying an ability to move and inspire a large group in a unified direction and vision.
• Manage the effective achievement of assigned objectives through the leadership of the departments staff by setting of individual objectives managing performance developing and motivating staff to maximize sectional performance.
• Lead the talent development initiatives for the assigned department collaborating with technical/discipline experts and thereby ensure the availability of talent to fit business requirements.
• Act as a role model and drive adherence to organizational values and ethics by employees of the assigned department to foster a value driven culture within the company.

Budgeting and business Planning

• Manage the preparation and recommend the department budget and monitor financial performance versus the budget while ensuring all sectional activities are conducted in line with the approved guidelines.

Policies Systems Processes & Procedures

• Manage and ensure effective implementation of approved functional policies procedures and controls covering all areas of assigned department activity so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements fulfilled while delivering a quality cost-effective service.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability of systems processes and practices considering global standards productivity improvement and cost reduction.

Reporting

• Demonstrate high proficiency in reporting tools and platforms which are necessary for the creating both visually and verbally engaging reports and presentations for the management.
• Ensure that all unit reports are prepared timely and accurately and meet FAB Islamic and FAB Group requirements policies and quality standards.
• Utilize analytics tools and work with the business management support team in undertaking detailed analyses of business performance for the purpose of reporting sales strategy successes weaknesses and opportunities.

Specific Accountability

• Develop strategic outlook and plan for the business in conjunction with the CEO Branch Distribution/Sales/Product Heads
• Emphasis on business process performance using the analysis monitoring reporting and optimization of business processes and business activities
• Collecting monitoring and reporting relevant data used to analyse business performance in high professional and presentable business dashboards
• Monitor efficiency productivity business continuity and evaluate the resource requirements across and recommend the required correction actions
• Identify benchmarks of performance qualitative & quantitative (Balanced Scorecard) in conjunction with the Group Strategy Planning Department and all companys department
• On-going review of internal controls procedures SOPs and services for corrections and enhancements in cooperation with the relevant departments
• Play a focal role with regard to communicate with Business Lines and other support functions within the Group & the Finance Company (In collaboration and agreement with all counterparts.)
• Review streamline if necessary and sign off any new product service or processes intended to be introduced
• Work closely with the Finance Department of the company and Group Finance in all business aspects like budget preparation reporting platforms and all regulatory limits related to business exposure etc
• Support reengineer centralize and/or automate branch processes to better fit the smart branch concept. Work with all stakeholders towards smooth & controlled transition. Implement and monitor the E2E changes measure the impact and fine tune as and if required
• Involve in high level in audit Risk & Compliance Reviews & Ratings of the company
• Functions within the framework and boundaries of Group policies as well as overall organizational and governance frameworks.
• Authorized to take decisions as per the approved authorization matrix.

Qualifications :

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelors degree Finance

Minimum Experience

15 years relevant experience in the banking & Financial Institutions sector within a fast-paced and dynamic business environment with at least 5 years in similar positions of progressively increasing managerial responsibilities in the Strategy / Business Planning function.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

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Looking to join the #1 bank in the UAE and one of the most prestigious in the region? We're looking for professionals who are driven, skilled, and ready to take on new challenges. Together, we can achieve our goals, making a lasting impact on both our company and the industry as a whole.

Join us and leave your mark on the industry. Let's work together to achieve great things and unlock new possibilities for our employees, customers, and communities.

Looking to join the #1 bank in the UAE and one of the most prestigious in the region? We're looking for professionals who are driven, skilled, and ready to take on new challenges. Together, we can achieve our goals, making a lasting impact on both our company and the industry as a whole.

Join us and leave your mark on the industry. Let's work together to achieve great things and unlock new possibilities for our employees, customers, and communities.

This role holder is responsible to monitor all branch/Direct-Sales/ business activities and performance, ensure that all activities are aligned with SOPs, bank's standards and regulatory requirements and also in line with overall plans and strategy. This role holder is also responsible to work on solutions for any identified lapses, gaps and new requirements.

Revenues/ Budget:

Monitoring the overall yearly BSC KPIS

Monitoring revenue

Monitoring Business Acquisition

Cost Efficiency

NPS

Direct Reports:

FAB Islamic Finance

Islamic Portfolio

Business Planning & Support - Islamic

Strategic Contribution

• Ensure effective cascading of the functional strategy into department business plans to ensure vertical alignment and horizontal integration with other interfacing departmental strategies.
• Create and implement company's strategies and action plans that incorporate key actions that work to set KPI's for the business and the organization

People Management

• Demonstrate exceptional leadership skills, portraying an ability to move and inspire a large group in a unified direction and vision.
• Manage the effective achievement of assigned objectives through the leadership of the department's staff by setting of individual objectives, managing performance, developing and motivating staff to maximize sectional performance.
• Lead the talent development initiatives for the assigned department, collaborating with technical/discipline experts and thereby ensure the availability of talent to fit business requirements.
• Act as a role model and drive adherence to organizational values and ethics by employees of the assigned department to foster a value driven culture within the company.

Budgeting and business Planning

• Manage the preparation and recommend the department budget and monitor financial performance versus the budget while ensuring all sectional activities are conducted in line with the approved guidelines.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Manage and ensure effective implementation of approved functional policies, procedures and controls covering all areas of assigned department activity so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements, fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability of systems, processes and practices considering global standards, productivity improvement and cost reduction.

Reporting

• Demonstrate high proficiency in reporting tools and platforms, which are necessary for the creating both visually and verbally engaging reports and presentations for the management.
• Ensure that all unit reports are prepared timely and accurately and meet FAB Islamic, and FAB Group requirements, policies and quality standards.
• Utilize analytics tools and work with the business management support team in undertaking detailed analyses of business performance for the purpose of reporting sales strategy successes, weaknesses, and opportunities.

Specific Accountability


• Develop strategic outlook and plan for the business in conjunction with the CEO, Branch Distribution/Sales/Product Heads
• Emphasis on business process performance using the analysis, monitoring, reporting and optimization of business processes and business activities
• Collecting, monitoring and reporting relevant data used to analyse business performance in high professional and presentable business dashboards
• Monitor efficiency, productivity, business continuity and evaluate the resource requirements across and recommend the required correction actions
• Identify benchmarks of performance – qualitative & quantitative (Balanced Scorecard) in conjunction with the Group Strategy Planning Department and all company's department
• On-going review of internal controls, procedures, SOPs and services for corrections and enhancements in cooperation with the relevant departments
• Play a focal role with regard to communicate with Business Lines and other support functions within the Group & the Finance Company (In collaboration and agreement with all counterparts.)
• Review, streamline if necessary and sign off any new product, service or processes intended to be introduced
• Work closely with the Finance Department of the company and Group Finance in all business aspects like budget preparation, reporting platforms and all regulatory limits related to business exposure… etc
• Support reengineer, centralize and/or automate branch processes to better fit the smart branch concept. Work with all stakeholders towards smooth & controlled transition. Implement and monitor the E2E changes, measure the impact and fine tune as and if required
• Involve in high level in audit, Risk & Compliance Reviews & Ratings of the company
• Functions within the framework and boundaries of Group policies as well as overall organizational and governance frameworks.
• Authorized to take decisions as per the approved authorization matrix.
Qualifications


Minimum Qualification


• Bachelor's degree Finance

Minimum Experience


15 years' relevant experience in the banking & Financial Institutions sector within a fast-paced and dynamic business environment with at least 5 years in similar positions of progressively increasing managerial responsibilities in the Strategy / Business Planning function.


Seniority level
• Seniority level Not Applicable
Employment type
• Employment type Full-time
Job function
• Job function Finance
• Industries Banking

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Looking to join the #1 bank in the UAE and one of the most prestigious in the region? We're seeking driven, skilled professionals ready to take on new challenges. Together, we can achieve our goals and make a lasting impact on our company and the industry.

This role involves monitoring branch, direct sales, and business activities to ensure alignment with SOPs, standards, and regulations. The role also includes developing solutions for identified gaps and implementing strategic initiatives.

• Monitor revenue, business acquisition, cost efficiency, and NPS.
• Manage direct reports including Islamic Finance, Islamic Portfolio, and Business Planning & Support teams.
• Ensure strategic alignment and cascading of objectives.
• Lead people management, including performance, development, and motivation.
• Oversee budgeting, policies, systems, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Prepare reports, analyze business performance, and develop dashboards.
• Develop strategic outlooks in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Ensure internal controls, streamline processes, and support automation initiatives.
• Coordinate with finance and support functions on budgets and regulatory limits.
• Participate in audits, risk, and compliance reviews.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in banking and financial institutions, with at least 5 years in managerial roles related to strategy or business planning.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Business Development and Sales
• Industry: Banking

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