Senior Manager Strategic Alliances Corporate Planning

Job title
- Senior Manager Strategic Alliances | Corporate Planning
- Ref #
- 250000HU
- Location
- Qatar - Doha
- Job family
- Corporate & Commercial
- Closing date: 17-Aug-2025

**About the Role**

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Manager Strategic Alliances to join our Strategic Alliances Department.

The role is responsible for the design, negotiation and implementation of Qatar Airways’ partnership strategy aligned with the company overall strategy and goals. This role aims to enhance Qatar Airways’ network and commercial reach in alignment with the airline’s commercial strategy and growth ambitions.

The responsibility of this role will include partnership relationship management, identifying and developing cross-functional initiatives to maximizing partnership value for Qatar Airways and its partners, working internally and externally with Network Strategy, Network Planning, Schedule Planning, Sales & Distribution, B2C, Marketing, Pricing and Revenue Management, Loyalty and Alliances units (“Commercial workstreams”) as well as Technical, Procurement and Cargo, to positively impact top-line and bottom-line.

There are 2 requirements for this role with geographical scope split between East and West.

**Specific accountabilities include**:

- Anticipate industry developments, evolving competitive landscapes and regulatory changes that can impact Qatar Airways and its partners and provide relevant and innovative recommendations to senior leadership.
- Lead the assessment and pursuit of new partnership opportunities, including joint ventures, block spaces, codeshare and interline agreements, aligned with the department strategy.
- Drive the formulation and implementation of the Alliances & Partnerships strategy in alignment with corporate objectives and KPIs.
- Negotiate and align the different partnerships with the overall Alliances & partnerships strategy, objectives and KPIs.
- Develop business cases, articulate KPIs and oversee the performance evaluation of each partnership to ensure measurable value creation for Qatar Airways and its partners.
- Manage partnership relationship by making sure that proper governance and/or appropriate channels of communication with partners are in place whilst fostering partners alignment with the strategy and goals.
- Establish regular engagement with key internal stakeholders to promote understanding and communication.
- Establish the department or teams’ objectives and priorities to align with and support business objectives.

**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**:
**About You**
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with minimum 10 years of job-related experience.
- Strong experience in a commercial strategic role within the airline or travel industry.
- Deep understanding of the airline partnership business and airline profitability metrics.
- Previous experience in Pricing and Revenue Management, Network Planning or Sales with extensive technical expertise in Strategic alliances.
- Deep knowledge of airline industry revenue planning processes, including capacity/network planning and revenue forecasting.
- Business planning and associated processes in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical and systems-thinking skills.
- Strong commercial acumen.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including written and spoken presentation.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with proven influencing and negotiating skills, including the ability to achieve results through individuals outside his/her direct control.
- Excellent leadership experience - Adept at cross-cultural working.
- Sound and independent judgement in the face of conflicting demands.
- Able to delegate work, set clear direction and manage workflow with strong mentoring and coaching skills.

**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 k