Chief Strategy & Insights Officer
Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia · Full Time
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- Experience
- 4–8 yrs
- Salary
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- Openings
- 1
- Posted
- 3 weeks ago
- Work mode
- In office
- Eligibility
- Senior leaders with 4 to 8 years of experience in a C-suite or equivalent role, especially candidates from QSR, FMCG, consulting or franchising backgrounds, who are open to relocating to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Job description
Role overview
Unified Foods Group, the operator of McDonald's Saudi Arabia, is looking for a senior commercial and strategy leader to join its executive team in Riyadh. The business is expanding quickly across the Kingdom and is focused on strengthening the strategic and analytical capabilities that will support its next stage of growth.
This role offers the chance to shape the full commercial strategy agenda for a globally recognised restaurant brand in a fast-growing market. The successful hire will bring strong experience in strategy, pricing, revenue growth management and business insights, along with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders and convert data into practical business decisions.
Key responsibilities
- Develop the company-wide strategy for a 3 to 5 year period and translate long-term ambitions into yearly priorities, including the trade-offs needed across Operations, Marketing, Finance and Development.
- Oversee commercial insight work across sales, traffic, margin, menu mix, pricing, promotions and guest behaviour, and turn those findings into clear recommendations for the CEO and leadership team.
- Lead pricing and revenue growth management by handling menu engineering, price sensitivity studies, pack structure design and promotional impact reviews to support profitable growth.
- Compare store performance across sales, guest counts, profitability and QSC, identify locations that are underperforming, and connect operational results to commercial outcomes.
- Study customer behaviour across dine-in, drive-thru, delivery and digital touchpoints to support loyalty, visit frequency and retention initiatives.
- Drive expansion and investment analysis, including new store business cases, CapEx review, cannibalization studies and ROI assessment for major investments such as kiosks, digital boards and McCafé.
- Create straightforward executive dashboards and facilitate leadership reviews with the CEO, COO, CMO and CDO.
Requirements
- Between 4 and 8 years of experience in a C-suite or comparable senior leadership role.
- Professional exposure in QSR, FMCG, consulting or franchising.
- Strong command of commercial strategy, pricing, revenue growth management or business insights.
- Ability to question and influence senior leaders with confidence, analytical discipline and commercial judgement.
- Well-developed analytical thinking, paired with crisp and effective communication.
- Willingness to relocate to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Additional information
Sector: Restaurants
Seniority level: C-Suite
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The role is part of a high-growth restaurant organisation investing in world-class commercial and strategic capability to support expansion across the Kingdom.
No salary, stipend, benefits or vacancy count was specified in the source.