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Portfolio Growth Officer
Marisa Peer
Dubai, UAE
Senior
2 weeks ago
Commercial AnalysisStrategic ThinkingOperational InsightTalent AssessmentStakeholder ManagementAnalytical Skills
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About the Role
John Davy's entrepreneurial ecosystem is seeking a commercially driven Portfolio Growth Officer to strengthen performance and unlock growth opportunities across a diverse portfolio of businesses.
Key Skills for This Role
Commercial AnalysisStrategic ThinkingOperational InsightTalent AssessmentStakeholder ManagementAnalytical Skills
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 the 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 the confidence to operate across multiple businesses and industries
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Role Overview
- John Davy has spent more than three decades building, scaling, acquiring, and advising businesses across multiple sectors.
- Today, his focus is on creating an interconnected ecosystem of companies where ideas, talent, capability, and commercial success are shared.
- We are seeking a commercially driven Portfolio Growth Officer to help strengthen performance, unlock growth opportunities, and create greater alignment across the portfolio.
- This is a rare opportunity to work directly alongside an experienced entrepreneur, influencing multiple businesses while helping shape the long term success of an ambitious and evolving ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 the 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.
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.
Why Join This Opportunity?
- Work directly with a highly experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and scaling businesses.
- Influence the growth and performance of multiple companies across an evolving ecosystem.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping long term commercial strategy and capability.
- Contribute to initiatives spanning AI, acquisitions, automation, innovation, and new ventures.
- Operate with significant autonomy, ownership, and strategic influence.
- Benefit from a competitive package with flexible OTE aligned to impact and performance.
- Be part of an ambitious vision focused on shared success, collaboration, and sustainable growth.
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