Strategy Manager

About the Role

Gathern is seeking a Strategy Manager to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role involves owning the strategic planning and performance cycle, ensuring that leadership decisions are based on current, reconciled, and traceable data. The Strategy Manager will be responsible for the North Star driver model, OKR and initiative portfolio planning, and executive and board reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain planning and analysis for key metrics including revenue, reservations, ARPR, SCR, ADR, LOS, and take rate.
• Ensure monthly reconciliation of targets, actuals, and variances.
• Conduct diagnostic analysis to attribute revenue and reservation gaps to primary and supporting drivers, converting attribution into actionable tasks with owners and deadlines.
• Develop and maintain scenario and sensitivity models for pricing, segmentation, and destination planning.
• Support annual and quarterly planning cycles, including target setting and monthly ramp-up.

Performance Management

• Manage OKR planning, including objectives, key results, initiative cards, scoring, and milestone tracking.
• Execute the monthly performance cycle, data cut-off, variance review, commentary drafting, and publication according to a fixed calendar.
• Ensure all commitments and initiatives translate into the required performance outcomes.
• Maintain the metric definitions library and enforce consistency across all published reports.

Executive and Board Reporting

• Produce monthly executive reports, quarterly one-pagers, and board materials to a consistent standard, including action titles, concise commentary, and internally consistent metrics.
• Prepare pre-reads and decision papers for the Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
• Act as the quality gate for all numerical data leaving the department, ensuring every figure is traceable to a source and definition.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in strategy, planning, and performance management roles. A strong analytical background and attention to detail are essential for this position.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to contribute to Gathern's strategic direction and growth.