Senior Manager, Investor Relations

Our business landscape

We're an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region's leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group's strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:

• Value-Focused Portfolio: Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea cable business and fintech.
• Strengthen the Core: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure.
• Evolve the Core: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.
• People: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.
• Excellence in Customer Experience: Creating superior customer experiences.

From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you're looking to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.

Job overview

To manage the department responsible for Investor Relations management, ensuring that all Ooredoo Group shareholders are kept informed about all Group activities in a timely and effective manner.

Your impact on our goals

• Lead relationship with sell side analysts and brokerage research teams and be focal point for all ORDS related inquiries
• Communication with top shareholders as well as prospective investors and effectively address all questions / concerns to maintain Ooredoo Group profile within the market
• Manage Quarterly results process including identification of key issues and potential investor questions/ develop messaging, draft investor slides (including data links from Finance systems (Cognos/SAP), script writing for MD and GCFO, KPI selection and key Q&A for Q results call, follow up with buy and sell side on any open issues
• Develop & implement digital IR strategy (paperless information internal, IR app and use social media externally
• Organize Capital Market Days (draft equity story development, agenda, trial runs and training of spokespersons, preparation of corporate presentations, alignment of key messages, preparation of Q&A, logistics of event, feedback external/internal)
• Updating senior management on performance of Ooredoo shares and market developments along with the peers' performance
• Lead investor meetings in Qatar and at international conferences and NDR roadshows on all relevant investor topics and markets
• Conduct analysis of investor base, track changes on monthly basis, actively contact most active trading investors and keep management informed
• Manage consensus for sell side analysts
• Maintain strong relationship with local stock markets (QE, ADX) and Opcos if required
• Contact point for ESG (Environmental/Social/Governance) analysts
• Preparation of ESG report and development of ESG strategy in cooperation with advisory banks, all OG departments and Opcos
• Manage development of the Company Annual Report in conjunction with all BU Heads and co-ordinate its production and distribution.
• Keeps shareholders knowledgeable about the company (and implicitly encourages them to buy and hold).
• Acts as a focal point for Ooredoo Group shareholders to facilitate exchange of information.
• Manage relationship with rating agencies, document interactions/ meeting minutes, flag potential issues to management
• Represent the organisation in the Annual General Assembly meetings
• Preparation of press releases/ Input in investor messaging process
• Coordinate the release of quarterly earnings and ensure timely disclosure to primary information providers.
• Responsible for disseminating company price sensitive disclosures to primary information providers such as stock exchanges and analysts who have initiated coverage on company stock.
• Manage the investor relations portal for Ooredoo Group, actively suggest added content and format.
• Work closely with Communications and Marketing departments to track systematically and analyse competitor activity and third-party commentary, identifying communications, opportunities, and gathering supporting evidence.
• Interact with all OpCo's to obtain relevant investor, market, and performance information.
• Drive IR social media program (develop concepts to increase followers, use new media)
• Support special projects like: Group wide projects, operating company corporate action and IPOs, debt capital market activity
• Manage the development of the appropriate materials (PowerPoint presentations, hand-outs, reports, press releases etc.) for presentations to the financial community, senior management and other internal and external audiences.
• Prepare annual IR budget, track payment of invoices
• Undertakes analysis of:
• competitor and peer-group analyses; shareholder and bond holder identification
• Analyse competitors' business models to assess the company's position relative to competitors in the mobile telephony and communication market (domestic and international)
• Industry analysts reports - and summarise the outcomes/learning's
• Inputs into the overall Investor Relations Strategy and implementation plan in line with company requirements and supports the development of and inputs into Group IR annual budget
• Scope, oversee and supervise deliverables from external supporting agencies, such as financial PR agency and other service providers who provide content and or data to the Investor Relations team
• Prepare shareholder list monthly (using Miraqle database) present to management and contact top buyers and sellers
• Prepare additional job-related ad-hoc reports, presentations and analyses as requested by management

Experience

• 10 years total experience preferably related to the responsibilities within an Investor Management or Strategy department
• At least 3 years previous successful experience at Senior Manager level of Investor Relations or in a related role
• Experience at a major telecommunications company
• Previous international experience, preferably in the GCC and MENA regions
• Knowledge of international investor disclosure requirements
• A clear and thorough understanding of the financial modelling techniques used by security analysts to project a company's operating and financial performance and the resulting value for its stock.
• An in-depth understanding of the financial and investment markets, with established relationships in them, and the ability to establish new relationships in new industries quickly.
• An in-depth understanding of strategic communication, public relations and the media