Research Manager
Gulf Researcher
Total years of experience :9 years, 4 Months
Planned, co-ordinated, and executed over 100 market research and benchmarking projects for global consulting firms, ministries, regional transformation authorities, and large corporates in the Middle East. Gained extensive research and analysis expertise across the financial services, media, government, tourism, retail, energy, and technology sectors.
Key Accomplishments:
• Part of the research team responsible for drafting and negotiating bilateral investment treaties between a large Middle Eastern country and various African countries.
• Created a Middle East-focused wealth management (WM) report which provided vital information which lead a top regional WM firm’s medium-term business development and investment decisions.
• Developed several analytical benchmarking reports with recommendations for a social sector transformation initiative in a large Middle Eastern country
Delivered high-quality and effective research reports by steering the market research and analysis as well as policy research on several sectors with speciality in the financial services, energy, tourism, and public sector.
Key Accomplishments:
• Delivered a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) benchmarking report which informed on strategic transformation decisions for one of the top 5 SWFs in the Middle East.
• Conducted a comprehensive government sector gap analysis exercise to inform a regional ministry on significant areas of improvement in terms of its policies, programs and services.
• Collaborated with a leading global consulting firm on a major project to create key performance indicators (KPIs) for 150+ government entities in the Middle East
Researched and analysed employee satisfaction by performing interviews/surveys. Developed key performance indicators (KPIs) and delivered the recommendations to evaluate performance of the company’s employees. Contributed to the implementation of several stage 1 recommendations in the intranet layout and functionality.
Key Accomplishments:
• Increased the employee satisfaction rate from 60% to 90% by improving the intranet communication system.
• Achieved the cost-savings of up to 10% through reduction of employee time needed to navigate the intranet.
Specialized in Management with a Concentration in Strategy