Digital Partnerships & Engagement Manager
About the Role
Lead strategic innovation partnerships to accelerate digital transformation and foster sustainable growth for Qatar Airways by managing a broad portfolio of engagements, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, compliance with security standards, and effective stakeholder collaboration. Oversee the entire lifecycle of partnerships while building a collaborative ecosystem with internal and external partners across the open innovation landscape.
Your duties would include:
Strategic:
Develop and execute a comprehensive partnership and engagement (P&E) strategy aligned with the QR’s digital innovation roadmap.
Build and maintain strong relationships with external and internal partners, conducting regular performance reviews, feedback loop, and collaborative design thinking workshops.
Develop and manage partnerships with government bodies to align innovation initiatives with Qatar’s vision, public policy and secure funding.
Design and execute open innovation programs such as hackathons, industry challenges, and co-creation workshops.
Operational:
Proactively identify, evaluate, and engage with potential partners, including startups, technology firms, academic institutions, and government agencies.
Engage with universities and research centers to drive collaborative R&D, technology transfer, and knowledge sharing.
Conduct market scan and trend analysis to inform strategic decision-making and identify new opportunities for digital disruption. Develop co-creation innovation ecosystem powered by partnerships.
Lead the development, negotiation, and management of partnership agreements, including commercial terms, procurement processes (RFI, RFP, Tenders, Trial agreements), and intellectual property arrangements.
Manage a partnership portfolio, ensuring delivery within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
Oversee data and information security management for all partnership activities, ensuring compliance with relevant Qatar Airways policies and regulations.
Facilitate cross-functional collaboration within the Qatar Airways ORG to support joint innovation initiatives.
Define, track, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for innovation initiatives and partnerships.
Perform other department duties related to his / her position as directed by the Head of the Department
Management & Leadership:
Establish the department or teams’ objectives and priorities to align with and support business objectives.
Regularly evaluate the department or teams’ objectives, plans, procedures and practices, and makes appropriate changes if needed.
Oversee and supervise employees. Direct daily activities, recruit, train, develop and discipline to ensure a high standard of service delivery.
Train and develop other employees, to ensure succession planning is in place.
To be committed and contribute to the National talent development, by coaching the national developees, preparing them for a career with boundless potential. Leading to the program’s continued growth and success.
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.