Manager - Integration

The Manager – Integration is responsible for strengthening alignment and coordination across business units and functions to support the effective delivery of organizational priorities. The role facilitates cross-functional collaboration, monitors critical strategic initiatives, identifies dependencies and implementation risks, and ensures timely follow-up and escalation to maintain progress and achieve intended outcomes.

Core Responsibilities

• Coordinate across business units and functions to ensure alignment on shared priorities, deliverables, timelines and dependencies.
• Support the planning and execution of key cross-functional projects and organizational initiatives.
• Establish and maintain consolidated trackers, action logs, implementation plans and status reports for assigned initiatives.
• Monitor project progress, milestones, risks, issues and outstanding actions, ensuring timely follow-up with responsible stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings, workshops and working groups, including the preparation of agendas, materials, minutes and action points.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities and ownership across participating business units to support effective execution.
• Identify coordination gaps, conflicting priorities and operational dependencies that may affect delivery.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to develop practical solutions and corrective actions to address implementation challenges.
• Ensure key decisions, agreed actions and changes in scope are properly documented and communicated.
• Prepare regular progress updates and management reports for senior leadership.
• Maintain accurate records and supporting documentation relating to strategic initiatives and cross-functional projects.
• Promote effective information-sharing and collaboration across business units.

People Management Responsibilities

• Lead, guide and develop team members, ensuring clear accountability for assigned priorities and deliverables.
• Set performance expectations, provide regular feedback and support capability development.
• Promote a collaborative, accountable and results-focused working environment.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Translate organizational priorities into coordinated implementation plans across business units.
• Monitor critical strategic initiatives, identify risks and dependencies, and escalate significant issues to senior management.
• Recommend improvements to cross-functional governance, alignment and execution effectiveness.

Educational and Technical Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Strategic Management, Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics or a related field. Master's degree is a plus

Language Skills

Excellent English & Arabic.

Years of Experience

A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in a similar role

Nature of Experience

• Relevant experience in strategic initiative management, business integration, project or program management, strategy execution, transformation, PMO, business planning or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple business units and senior stakeholders.
• Experience monitoring strategic initiatives, milestones, risks, dependencies and implementation progress.
• Proven ability to follow up with stakeholders, resolve coordination issues and maintain accountability for agreed actions.
• Experience preparing executive-level reports, dashboards, presentations and management updates.
• Strong exposure to stakeholder management, meeting facilitation and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience working in a complex organization with multiple functions, competing priorities and interdependent deliverables.
• Previous people-management or team-leadership experience is preferred.
• Experience within a government-related, large corporate, infrastructure, economic development or diversified business environment would be advantageous.