Strategy Manager

Company Name: Emirates Steel
Location: UAE
Posted by:

Mohamed Sagil

Mohamed Sagil

Talent Acquisition

General Summary:

Supports and leads a variety of strategic efforts inclusive of playing a pivotal role in building annual/long-term strategic plans. This position is crucial to the business’s ability to establish its short, medium, and long-term plans in a highly dynamic industry.

The strategy manager has multimillion-dollar impact to business on annual recurring business as its his responsibility to keep the management informed about all changes happening around to ensure timely decision to steer the company in the right direction.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Key Accountabilities):  

• Responsible for the development and oversight of the business’s corporate strategies in order to support growth objectives while strengthening the business core to develop and maintain a competitive advantage.
• Required to play a key role in strategy formulation, collaborates with both internal and external stakeholders, and leads cross-functional teams in the development of business-wide operational strategies.
• Strategy manager should focus on changes in the industry due to competitor activities either on products, services or combination of both, changes driven from substitution products.
• Conduct market research and present reports regarding the changes / threats emerging on basis of competitor products.
• Depending on the nature of the challenge, the strategy manager is expected to conduct industry analysis and propose a complete solution to either overcome or beat the challenges.
• Liaise with various departments to develop complete business case to capitalize / mitigate, the opportunity / threat emerging in the market.
• Guide the organization to move in which direction for the quality of products, diversification of the product portfolio, enhancement of product portfolio and / or optimization of the product portfolio from quality / quantity of view.
• Interact with many external stakeholder, suppliers and Government bodies on time to time, depending on the nature of project.
• Expected to lead of the projects and monitor / ensure timely and successful implementation/ completion of projects meeting all KPIs.
• Work / advice all cross functional teams, primarily with a focus on improving profitability of organization either through cost improvement or value enhancement.
• Provides all the ground work for all M&A activity and work on M&A / JV proposal to improve the overall business profitability of insulate business from industry shocks.
• Develop business case for upstream / downstream integration via M&A / JV or organic growth should be provided and delivered to the management for decision making.
• Looks out for opportunities and when vested with opportunities come out with clear workout for company on way forward.

Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities (attributes) required: 

• Should have consultancy background 
• Specific experience in business viability, competition watch and related tools.
• Requires very high level of analytics skills
• Solid understanding of logistics, steel industry, business threats
• Strong understanding of overall functions of organization (Operations, Supply Chains, Projects, HR, etc.)
• Strong understanding of financial modeling.
• Ability to read and interpret P&L and balance sheets

Minimum Education Qualifications (Must Haves):

• Bachelor degree in Engineering / Physics / Mathematics / Economics 
• Post Graduate: MBA / MSc

Professional Experience (Must haves) :

• Total of 13-15 years’ experience in Manufacturing Industry / Steel Industry / in Sales & Marketing / Logistics / Purchasing functions.
• 3-5 years in consulting background.

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  ConsultingEngineeringManufacturing

• Industries

  Mining & MetalsManagement Consulting