Data Strategy Consultant

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Data Strategy Consultant Jobs in Doha, Qatar at DAI Consultancy

Title: Data Strategy Consultant

Company: DAI Consultancy

Location: Doha, Qatar

Role Purpose

The Data Strategy Consultant helps clients define how data will support organisational priorities, public services, operational performance and evidence-based decisions. The role connects business objectives with a realistic data vision, target capabilities, prioritised initiatives, measurable benefits and an implementation roadmap. It ensures that strategy is grounded in current-state evidence and coordinated with governance, architecture, quality, security, analytics and change requirements.

The consultant conducts research and interviews, facilitates strategic choices, develops initiative and benefits models, and prepares decision-ready material for client leadership. The role does not set the client’s strategy independently; it structures evidence, options and recommendations for authorised stakeholders. Strong candidates can move between executive-level narrative and detailed implementation logic, ensuring that the final strategy is understandable, fundable, sequenced and capable of being monitored after approval.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse organisational strategies, service priorities, national direction and existing data initiatives to establish the strategic context.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and current-state assessments covering capabilities, pain points, dependencies and opportunities.
• Facilitate development of a clear data vision, strategic objectives, guiding principles and measurable outcomes.
• Identify and structure priority use cases that connect data investment to business and public-value outcomes.
• Develop initiative cards describing scope, benefits, owners, dependencies, resources, risks and success measures.
• Apply transparent prioritisation criteria and prepare options for client leadership rather than predetermining the decision.
• Develop sequenced roadmaps, implementation waves, milestones, capability dependencies and investment considerations.
• Define benefits-realisation measures and governance arrangements for monitoring strategy execution.
• Coordinate strategy content with target operating model, architecture, quality, security, data culture and analytics workstreams.
• Prepare executive presentations, strategy documents, decision papers and supporting evidence.
• Support business-case development, programme mobilisation and handover into implementation governance.
• Monitor delivery evidence and recommend strategy or roadmap refreshes when priorities, risks or assumptions change.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in strategy, business, information systems, data management or a related field.
• master’s degree preferred.
• An equivalent combination of relevant education and directly applicable consulting or implementation experience may be considered.

Professional Experience

• Typically 6-10 years in strategy, transformation, data management, analytics or management consulting.
• Experience in strategy, transformation, data management, analytics, business analysis or management consulting.
• Experience converting organisational objectives into initiatives, roadmaps, measures and implementation choices.
• Experience preparing executive material and facilitating senior stakeholder workshops.
• Exposure to benefits realisation, portfolio prioritisation and public-sector transformation is preferred.

Technical and Domain Knowledge

• Data-strategy formulation and strategic alignment.
• Current-state assessment and target-capability definition.
• Use-case development and initiative structuring.
• Prioritisation methods, roadmaps and dependency mapping.
• Benefits realisation, indicators and performance measures.
• Data-governance and operating-model considerations.
• Architecture, quality, security, analytics and literacy interdependencies.
• Business-case and investment-planning principles.

Core Competencies

• Strategy formulation.
• Business analysis.
• Portfolio prioritization.
• Benefits realization.
• Executive storytelling.
• Roadmapping.
• Strategic thinking.
• Benefits orientation.
• Synthesis.
• Executive interviewing and strategic workshop facilitation.
• Synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence.
• Developing persuasive but evidence-based strategic narratives.
• Building structured options and transparent prioritisation models.
• Writing executive documents and presenting recommendations.
• Managing ambiguity, assumptions and changing priorities.
• Translating strategy into practical implementation commitments.

Preferred Certifications

• CDMP Practitioner
• PMP
• CBAP

Focus areas

Strategy formulationBusiness analysisPortfolio prioritization

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