Head of Integration & Strategic Initiatives

• Closing date: 29-Sep-2025

You will serve as the central orchestrator for identifying, governing, and delivering non-commercial synergies across Qatar Airways Group’s strategic airline partnerships. You are pivotal in driving enterprise-wide value creation by aligning cross-functional initiatives with the Group’s long-term strategic objectives. You will act as the primary coordination point, will lead the end-to-end lifecycle of synergy initiatives—from opportunity identification and prioritization to execution and performance tracking—across domains such as procurement, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), artificial intelligence, and fleet optimization. Your role requires close collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure that all synergy initiatives are measurable, compliant, and aligned with the Group’s transformation agenda by embedding a structured governance framework and fostering a culture of strategic collaboration.

Strategic

• Lead the Group’s efforts to unlock value through structured, non-commercial collaboration with strategic airline partners.
• Define and maintain a comprehensive synergy value capture framework across equity partnerships and geographies, ensuring consistency, transparency, and alignment with Group objectives.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact synergy initiatives across key domains such as procurement, fuel, fleet optimization, innovation, and technology enablement.
• Align all synergy efforts with the Group’s strategic objectives and the QR2.0 transformation programme, ensuring initiatives contribute to long-term competitiveness and operational excellence.
• Establish and oversee governance processes, reporting cadence, and KPI frameworks to track synergy delivery, measure impact, and ensure accountability across internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as a strategic thought partner to senior leadership, translating synergy insights into actionable recommendations that drive enterprise-wide value creation.

Operational

• Responsible for translating strategic synergy opportunities into executable initiatives that deliver measurable value across the Group.
• Lead programme management and stakeholder coordination for synergy initiatives, ensuring timely execution, alignment with strategic goals, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Work closely with other key teams to structure and implement joint initiatives that leverage partner capabilities and internal strengths.
• Engage directly with partner airlines to co-develop and implement synergy roadmaps, ensuring mutual value creation and alignment with partnership objectives.
• Set up and manage formal legal frameworks, working groups, and governance structures to drive collaboration, ensure compliance, and protect the Group’s strategic interests.
• Coordinate with Qatar Airways’ Strategic Alliances team to ensure synergy efforts complement commercial partnership initiatives and are integrated into broader alliance strategies.
• Perform other department duties related to his / her position as directed by the Head of the Department

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. Together, everything is possible

Qualifications and Experience:

• High School / Vocational Qualification with minimum 12 years of job related experience or bachelor’s degree or equivalent with minimum 10 years of job related experience

Essential

• Proven experience in managing large-scale projects and tracking results.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional project teams.
• Strong proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.
• Proven track record of linking strategic initiatives to execution plans.
• Strong ability to engage and manage relationships with key stakeholders, through effective communication and collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and engage with senior leadership, including Chiefs, SVPs and VPs, through strategic insights and recommendations.
• Proven ability to apply industry knowledge to drive operational improvements and synergies.
• Experience in organization transformations working in diverse cultural environment and international work experience.
• Strong leadership and business/performance mindset, with outstanding capabilities of negotiation and influence.
• Previous consulting experience preferably with large corporations.
• Project and change management experience.
• Experience in the design and improvement of processes

Job Specific Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong understanding of business process mapping
• Proven track record of setting direction, leading large-scale projects, and engaging teams
• Driving Business Performance and Change
• Strong understanding of End-to-End business improvements
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, for internal and external business users.

About Qatar Airways Group

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community