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Portfolio Growth Officer
Rapid Transformational Therapy School
Dubai, UAE
Senior
2 weeks ago
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About the Role
As this ecosystem continues to evolve, we are seeking a commercially driven Portfolio Growth Officer to help strengthen performance, unlock growth opportunities, and create grea.
Key Skills for This Role
Commercial AnalysisStrategic ThinkingOperational InsightTalent AssessmentMarketing AssessmentSales Assessment
Responsibilities
- Build a deep understanding of each business including commercial model, market positioning, customer journey, and growth drivers
- Develop meaningful visibility across the portfolio to identify opportunities, trends, and emerging challenges
- Evaluate performance indicators to support informed decision making
- Assess growth performance across the portfolio and identify underlying drivers of success or underperformance
- Challenge assumptions and provide objective recommendations based on evidence and commercial insight
- Support leaders in developing clear actions to improve results and accelerate growth
- Evaluate marketing, sales, and commercial functions to identify capability gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Assess leadership strength and determine where additional expertise or resources may be required
- Support identification, recruitment, and development of exceptional commercial talent across the portfolio
- Contribute to high impact initiatives including AI, acquisitions, automation, analytics, and new ventures
- Act as a trusted strategic adviser, providing constructive challenge, objective analysis, and clear recommendations
Requirements
- Proven experience growing businesses and improving commercial performance
- Strong strategic thinking combined with operational credibility
- Experience assessing marketing, sales, and commercial functions
- Ability to identify capability gaps and make informed recommendations
- Comfortable influencing senior leaders and challenging assumptions constructively
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic oversight with practical execution
- Entrepreneurial mindset with confidence to operate across multiple businesses and industries
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The Opportunity
- We are seeking an experienced Portfolio Growth Officer to provide independent commercial insight, identify growth opportunities, and strengthen capability across a diverse portfolio of businesses.
- You will develop a deep understanding of each company, challenge assumptions, assess commercial performance, and ensure leadership teams have the people, systems, and strategies required to deliver sustainable growth.
- This is a highly strategic role that combines commercial analysis, talent assessment, operational insight, and trusted advisory support.
Key Responsibilities
- Portfolio Intelligence: Build a deep understanding of each business, including its commercial model, market positioning, customer journey, and growth drivers.
- Develop meaningful visibility across the portfolio to identify opportunities, trends, and emerging challenges.
- Evaluate performance indicators to support informed decision making.
- Commercial Performance: Assess growth performance across the portfolio and identify the underlying drivers of success or underperformance.
- Challenge assumptions and provide objective recommendations based on evidence and commercial insight.
- Support leaders in developing clear actions to improve results and accelerate growth.
- Growth Capability: Evaluate marketing, sales, and commercial functions to identify capability gaps and opportunities for improvement.
- Assess leadership strength and determine where additional expertise or resources may be required.
- Help ensure each business has the foundations in place for sustainable growth.
- Talent & Leadership: Support the identification, recruitment, and development of exceptional commercial talent across the portfolio.
- Contribute to building stronger leadership capability within the ecosystem.
- Help ensure the right people are in place to achieve long term objectives.
What Success Looks Like
- Every company has meaningful commercial visibility and clear growth metrics.
- Opportunities and risks are identified early, enabling proactive decision making.
- Capability gaps are understood with action plans in place.
- Exceptional talent is identified, recruited, and developed where needed.
- Best practices, systems, and successful initiatives are shared across the portfolio.
- Leadership discussions are driven by evidence, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
- John has a trusted adviser capable of seeing the wider ecosystem while supporting leaders to deliver exceptional execution.
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience growing businesses and improving commercial performance.
- Strong strategic thinking combined with operational credibility.
- Experience assessing marketing, sales, and commercial functions.
- Ability to identify capability gaps and make informed recommendations.
- Comfortable influencing senior leaders and challenging assumptions constructively.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic oversight with practical execution.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the confidence to operate across multiple businesses and industries.
This Role Is Not
- A traditional marketing leadership position.
- A role focused on managing day to day campaigns.
- A position designed to sit above existing executive teams.
- A reporting role centred on dashboards rather than decisions and outcomes.
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