Senior Manager, Strategic Projects

Key Accountabilities

• Support the designing and institutionalizing a scalable strategic framework that will guide decision-making, align priorities, and enable future direct reports to execute with clarity and impact as the function grows.
• Translating enterprise and regional strategy into clear, executable roadmaps and initiatives
• Drive alignment across business units (ports, terminals, & logistics)
• Ensure initiatives are tied to measurable value creation (revenue, margin, efficiency)
• Lead high-priority, cross-functional strategic projects from design through execution
• Establish governance, milestones, and KPIs to track delivery
• Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring initiatives stay on track

Transformation Program Ownership

• Bring deep understanding of global logistics and supply chains, port and terminal operations, data centers, AI-driven logistics, and infrastructure convergence (preferred)
• Translate market trends into actionable strategic implications for DP World Americas

Executive Stakeholder Management

• Partner closely with regional leadership teams to support strategic planning, execution, and cross-functional alignment across key initiatives.
• Prepare and deliver C-suite level materials and recommendations
• Support alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities

Performance Tracking & Value Realization

• Operationalize success metrics and track value capture across initiatives
• Ensure accountability for outcomes—not just plans
• Continuously refine initiatives based on performance data

Qualifications, Experience And Skills

• 8+ years of experience in Strategy / transformation roles in logistics sector
• Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and executing strategy
• Deep knowledge of logistics/supply chain ecosystems, ports, terminals or freight networks and infrastructure investment and development
• Structured problem solving and analytical rigor
• Strong financial and commercial acumen
• Executive communication and storytelling
• Ability to influence without authority across a matrix organization
• High ownership mindset with bias toward action