Commercial Strategy Manager

Founded by Michael Lahyani in 2005 as a magazine (Al Bab World), Property Finder today is a single technology platform and brand across multiple countries in the MENA region. We offer the most advanced tools and best-in-class user experience for homeseekers, real estate brokers, and developers. Property Finder's most recent valuation secures our status among the Middle East's emerging unicorns, affirming a growth-oriented identity.

Over the years, we've expanded our operations to Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and secured a strategic shareholding in Hepsiemlak, the leading property portal in Turkey. With over 600+ dedicated people in 6 regional offices, we facilitate more than 14 million monthly visits across our platforms, solidifying our position as a regional powerhouse in the proptech space.

As the pioneering portal for homeseekers in the region, we are on a mission to motivate and inspire people to live the life they deserve.

Property Finder was created with a vision to provide a seamless experience to people in their real estate journey. Over the last decade the platform has evolved as a go-to marketplace for real estate brokerages, developers and house hunters to make informed decisions on all things real estate.

Company Profile

Property Finder is the leading digital real estate platform in the Middle East and North Africa region.

A UAE-born startup, Property Finder expanded its operations to Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt over the years. Recently, it acquired a significant stake in Zingat in Turkey.

The company is one of the largest technology start-ups in the region and is on a journey to becoming a Unicorn. We are aspiring to create a lighthouse technology company that will have a lasting impact in the entire tech ecosystem in our geography.

We encourage our people to move fast, be bold and offer them countless ways to make an impact in a fast-growing organization. Our goal is to ensure that our people find their time at Property Finder a rewarding investment where the company’s growth also means personal growth.

Property Finder generates most of its revenues through B2B sales of subscriptions, building on a resilient model of recurrent revenues.

Core Solutions

Property Finder offers a host of solutions for the customers and end users:

At our core, we offer the most comprehensive real estate listing database to people in the region and aspire to improve everyone’s property journey with technology.

We then match the property seekers with real estate professionals (our clients) effectively operating a marketplace adding value to both sides of the journey. We also offer value-added products to our clients like a real estate CRM platform among others.

Thanks to our wide market coverage and leading position, Property Finder has the best real estate data in the region. This data is opening new avenues for the company now, for example we are publishing the official Real Estate index (Mo’Asher) for Dubai, in partnership with the government. We have many exciting growth avenues ahead of us. The next few years will definitely be an exciting rocketship journey for us at Property Finder.

The Position

Position Title

Reports To

Head of Commercial Strategy

Job code

Manager

Position Summary

The Commercial Strategy Manager will be part of the Commercial Strategy & Operation function and will help define ways to improve our current commercial processes while also being a data ambassador to help drive decisions that will help improve our commercial performance. The role will have direct interaction with commercial leaders which will allow you to understand PF business across different markets and work with different teams to make a difference.

This person will have at least 5 years of experience in management consulting or in-house commercial strategy with projects related to sales & strategy operations. The role will be responsible for 3 - 5 year country commercial strategy and work closely with Country Managing Directors and PF Leadership team to define commercial plans across different markets.

Key Responsibilities

Market and Customer Understanding

• Responsible for leading commercial strategy multi-year plans at a country level working with Pricing, Marketing, Product, and Sales to align on key priorities and investments;
• Plays a crucial role in the Strategic planning process by working with Finance and S&T to align on key priorities, set commercial targets, and quantify ROI across different areas;
• Works with Commercial Operations lead to help bring visibility and reporting structure of commercial metrics across the company;
• Conduct analysis to understand commercial opportunities by looking at client segmentation and detailed performance measures across countries to help identify improvement areas within our operations;
• Proposed customer segmentation framework incorporating market structure and key value drivers to maximize value proposition, while building understanding of segment change dynamics;
• Help on developing and refresh 1-year commercial strategy plan working with country managers to put together plans that will allow us to optimize growth;
• Explore opportunities for adjacent revenue streams and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive synergies;

Commercial Processes and Performance Measure

• Understand current state of sales productivity, establish metrics to drive sales enablement and make recommendations to increase efficiency across commercial teams;
• Drive process improvement across the commercial function to align with best practices and organizational standards (including but not exclusive to sales targets, performance reporting, commission scheme, compensation structure and sales forecasting);

Business Analytics

• Highlight opportunities both internally and at a client-facing level to show how customers and Property Finder can maximize ROI.
• Ability to create data-driven sales stories that make our data easy to digest and understand whilst giving actionable insights for them to improve ROI.
• Build a trusted relationship with sales reps.
• Work closely with sales team to develop content and training strategy.
• Develop effective onboarding and training content for new and existing sales reps.
• Facilitate training program for sales teams.

The Person

Desired Qualifications

• At least 5 years in Management consulting or Commercial Strategy roles.
• Preferred majors: Management Information Systems, Business, Economics, or other business-related majors.
• Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint.
• Feels comfortable with data analysis.

Other Capabilities

• Strong analytical skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
• Fluent in English both spoken and written – additional languages are a plus.
• Creative thinker.
• Curious, proactive, practical and solution-oriented with “Get it done!” attitude.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to contribute both independently and as part of a team.
• Attentive to detail and committed to data integrity.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Property Finder Principles

• Move fast and make things.
• Data beats opinions.
• Don’t confuse motion with progress.
• Failure is success if we learn from it.
• People over pixels.

Our promise to talent

We encourage our people, called creators, to move fast, to be bold and offer them countless ways to make an impact in a fast-growing and talent-centric organisation.

Our goal is to ensure that our people find their time at Property Finder a rewarding experience where the company’s growth also means personal growth.

Overall it is a place for you to be your best self.