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Senior Manager - Tourism and Culture Job Snapshot Role: Senior Manager - Tourism and Culture Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Industry: Management Consulting Function: Management Consultant Experience: 8-15 years Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Senior Manager - Tourism and Culture in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Management Consulting opportunity focused on delivering strategic transformation programs for government and semi-government organizations across the UAE and wider GCC. YO IT Consulting is seeking an experienced advisory professional with expertise in tourism strategy, cultural development, public policy, destination planning, hospitality ecosystems, and complex program delivery. Reporting to Director or Managing Director level, the successful candidate will lead client-facing engagements, coordinate multidisciplinary stakeholders, and convert strategic objectives into practical operating models, policies, programs, and measurable economic outcomes. The position requires regional travel and is best suited to a consulting leader who understands the interaction between tourism, culture, urban development, government priorities, and destination competitiveness. Job Details Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Industry: Management Consulting Function: Management Consultant Salary: 30000-45000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time Role Context The Senior Manager - Tourism and Culture will lead strategic advisory assignments that help public-sector clients strengthen destinations, cultural assets, visitor economies, and institutional capabilities. The role combines strategy development, transformation delivery, policy advisory, operating model design, program leadership, and commercial analysis. Assignments may involve national or city-level tourism strategies, cultural sector development, destination positioning, hospitality ecosystem planning, governance reform, revenue optimization, and economic impact initiatives. Success will depend on the ability to manage senior client relationships, structure complex problems, align multiple stakeholders, and deliver recommendations that can be implemented within government environments. Key Responsibilities * Lead tourism and culture advisory engagements for government and semi-government clients. * Develop tourism, destination, hospitality, and cultural-sector strategies aligned with national and regional priorities. * Translate strategic ambitions into implementation roadmaps, governance structures, delivery programs, and measurable outcomes. * Design target operating models covering organizational structure, roles, decision rights, processes, capabilities, and performance management. * Advise clients on public policy, regulatory frameworks, institutional mandates, and sector governance. * Assess destination readiness, visitor propositions, cultural assets, tourism infrastructure, and hospitality ecosystems. * Develop recommendations for destination development, product diversification, visitor experience, and market positioning. * Lead transformation programs involving multiple government entities, delivery partners, operators, investors, and community stakeholders. * Establish or manage program management office structures for complex tourism and culture initiatives. * Define project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, reporting requirements, and executive decision points. * Coordinate workstreams across strategy, policy, operations, economics, urban planning, hospitality, and organizational development. * Analyze tourism revenue opportunities, commercial models, funding mechanisms, and economic impact. * Identify opportunities to improve visitor spending, asset utilization, sector investment, and destination competitiveness. * Prepare business cases, strategic options, executive presentations, policy papers, and implementation recommendations. * Facilitate workshops, steering committee sessions, stakeholder interviews, and senior leadership discussions. * Present findings and recommendations to Director, Managing Director, executive, and government leadership audiences. * Manage project teams, allocate responsibilities, review deliverables, and maintain consulting quality standards. * Build trusted client relationships while managing expectations, risks, scope, and delivery timelines. * Support proposal development, account growth, and identification of new advisory opportunities. * Travel across the GCC when required for client meetings, workshops, and project delivery. Ideal Profile * 8-15 years of relevant professional experience. * Strong background in tourism, culture, strategic consulting, transformation, public policy, hospitality, urban planning, or destination development. * Proven experience delivering advisory projects within the UAE, GCC, or comparable government environments. * Demonstrated success managing complex programs involving multiple public-sector and private-sector stakeholders. * Strong understanding of tourism ecosystems, cultural institutions, hospitality markets, destination strategy, and visitor economies. * Experience designing transformation roadmaps, operating models, governance arrangements, and implementation programs. * Ability to analyze policy, regulatory, commercial, organizational, and economic considerations together. * Strong program management and PMO leadership capabilities. * Experience preparing executive-level presentations, strategic reports, business cases, and policy recommendations. * Excellent problem structuring, analytical reasoning, and decision-support skills. * Confidence engaging with senior government officials, executives, investors, operators, and institutional partners. * Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage several workstreams simultaneously. * Fluent written and spoken English is required. * Professional Arabic proficiency is strongly preferred. * Willingness and ability to travel throughout the GCC. * Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of consulting delivery, client development, and engagement economics. * Ability to perform effectively in a high-pressure, client-facing environment with demanding deadlines. Skills Set * Tourism strategy * Cultural sector strategy * Strategic consulting * Government advisory * Public policy * Regulatory advisory * Destination development * Hospitality ecosystems * Tourism transformation * Operating model design * Program management * PMO leadership * Project management * Stakeholder management * Government relations * Economic impact analysis * Revenue optimization * Visitor economy * Destination competitiveness * Urban planning * Governance design * Business case development * Executive presentations * Workshop facilitation * Transformation roadmaps * Performance management * GCC market knowledge * Client relationship management * Multidisciplinary team leadership Why Join Us This senior advisory role offers the opportunity to influence high-profile tourism and culture programs across Dubai, the UAE, and the wider GCC. The successful candidate will work on engagements that shape destinations, strengthen cultural institutions, improve visitor economies, and support government transformation priorities. The position provides substantial exposure to senior decision-makers, regional development programs, and multidisciplinary consulting assignments. It is particularly suited to an experienced advisor seeking greater responsibility for client leadership, program delivery, strategic impact, and the development of tourism and cultural ecosystems across the region. About the Company YO IT Consulting supports organizations with specialist advisory, transformation, and project delivery expertise. Based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the company connects experienced professionals with strategic assignments that help government and institutional clients improve operating performance, implement complex programs, and deliver sustainable economic and sector development outcomes.