30 Operations Director jobs in Qatar

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic SL OM Operations Director to join our team in Doha, Qatar. This key leadership role will oversee operations across Qatar and Saudi Arabia, driving operational excellence and business growth in these critical markets.

1. Develop and implement strategic operational plans to optimize performance across Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
2. Lead and manage cross-functional teams to ensure seamless operations and achieve business objectives.
3. Analyze market trends and competitive landscape to identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
4. Establish and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor operational efficiency and effectiveness.
5. Collaborate with senior leadership to align operational strategies with overall business goals.
6. Ensure compliance with local regulations and business practices in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
7. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational processes and reduce costs.
8. Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, partners, and government entities.
9. Manage budgets and financial performance for operations in both countries.
10. Implement best practices in operations management across the organization.

1. Bachelor's degree in business administration, Operations Management, or related field; MBA preferred.
2. 10+ years of experience in operations management, with a proven track record of success in senior leadership roles.
3. Extensive experience working in the Middle East, specifically in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
4. Strong knowledge of local business practices, regulations, and cultural nuances in both countries.
5. Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategic operational plans.
6. Excellent financial management skills, including budgeting and cost control.
7. Proven track record in driving performance optimization and process improvement.
8. Outstanding leadership and team management abilities.
9. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-cultural environment.
10. Fluency in English and Arabic.
11. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
12. Ability to adapt to changing business environments and drive change management initiatives.

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic SL OM Operations Director to join our team in Doha, Qatar. This key leadership role will oversee operations across Qatar and Saudi Arabia, driving operational excellence and business growth in these critical markets.

1. Develop and implement strategic operational plans to optimize performance across Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
2. Lead and manage cross-functional teams to ensure seamless operations and achieve business objectives.
3. Analyze market trends and competitive landscape to identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
4. Establish and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor operational efficiency and effectiveness.
5. Collaborate with senior leadership to align operational strategies with overall business goals.
6. Ensure compliance with local regulations and business practices in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
7. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational processes and reduce costs.
8. Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, partners, and government entities.
9. Manage budgets and financial performance for operations in both countries.
10. Implement best practices in operations management across the organization.

1. Bachelor's degree in business administration, Operations Management, or related field; MBA preferred.
2. 10+ years of experience in operations management, with a proven track record of success in senior leadership roles.
3. Extensive experience working in the Middle East, specifically in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
4. Strong knowledge of local business practices, regulations, and cultural nuances in both countries.
5. Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategic operational plans.
6. Excellent financial management skills, including budgeting and cost control.
7. Proven track record in driving performance optimization and process improvement.
8. Outstanding leadership and team management abilities.
9. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-cultural environment.
10. Fluency in English & Arabic.
11. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
12. Ability to adapt to changing business environments and drive change management initiatives.

• Join the FIFA Infrastructure Boom
• Public Works Government Authority
• Location: Doha, Qatar

Ref# 219

The country of Qatar continues to experience substantial construction growth with infrastructure budgets rising to over $120B for infrastructure and road projects by 2018. Our client seeks to support Qatar’s National Development Strategy 2011-2016, the FIFA World Cup 2022 event and fulfil Qatar’s National Vision 2030. To support this substantial growth, our client; the public works authority; has created a number of senior management expatriate postings for urgent commencement. With long term prospects providing stability and career development, our employer is looking to recruit an experienced Business Process Improvement Specialist to their team to add value in an advisory capacity.

Your responsibilities in the role will include:

1. Understand, document and improve the current working processes across functions (Core and Support functions) in detail.
2. Analyze the working process, evaluate effectiveness, discovering the gaps and the weakness points.
3. Reengineer the identified processes and suggest efficient working procedures that satisfy the organization’s business goals, objectives, quality culture and strategy.
4. Perform continuous studies and research to improve the business process and give recommendations to top management regarding the most suitable methodologies.
5. Lead process owners and stakeholders through the business process improvement process.
6. Perform effective change management to ensure sustainability of changes.
7. Help develop the corporate continuous improvement project plan.
8. Provide change inputs to existing Enterprise Systems based on business processes.
9. Discover opportunities and conduct business process benchmarking with other companies.
10. Manage process improvement projects in the organization using industry-standard project management techniques.

Essential attributes include:

1. Degree qualification in Commerce or comparable with Master’s Degree from a recognized institution being highly regarded.
2. A minimum of 10 years’ experience in business process re-engineering and methodologies is required, with experience in Government and GCC being highly desirable.
3. Ability to map processes including identifying critical path and areas to improve within the processes.
4. Ability to undertake sensitivity analysis for the existing processes.
5. Experience and knowledge in Quality Management tools (TQM, EFQM).
6. Experience in Construction industry with focus on Public Works or Utility services.
7. Strong knowledge in business processing tools such as VISIO or QPR is a plus and other BPR software.
8. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
9. Problem solver with out of the box thinking.
10. Exposure to statistical tools for analysing processes is desirable.
11. Lean or Six Sigma training and implementation experience is desirable.
12. Ability to work across multi-functional teams to deliver quality on time and in a collaborative environment.
13. Arabic language fluency is desirable.

An expatriate package and relocation assistance will be provided to attract the top candidates to the role. To apply online, please click the appropriate link below.

De v e l o p Business Plans and monitor the business planning activities of departments under Dukhan Operations (OMD). Prepare, review, analyse and coordinate various reports generated by departments of D ukha n Operations for submission to high e r manag e m e n t.

Develop a nd docume nt high level OMD Bus iness p rocesse s tha t are in line w i t h the Operat i ons ph ilosop hy , po licies, a nd ob ject ives ; to e nsu re that OMD mee ts the sta nda rdiza tio n requ ire men t i n- line w ith o ther opera tional a reas unde r VO .

Ass i s t the Operational Excellence Advisor (OMC) i n the review and analys i s of Key P erfo rm ance I ndicato rs f o r OMD suc h as : p rodu c ti on , i nj e c t i o n a nd e x port data , un p la nn e d shutdown , a n d HSE p erformance . Perform root cause analysis, r ecom m e nd co rr e ct ive an d p r event i ve a c t ions t o en s ur e e ffici en t operations and adv i s e th e OMC ac co r di ngl y .

Minimum 10 years of experience in operations and continuous improvement.

Bachelor's degree in any discipline and preferably MBA in Finance, economics or business planning.