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Skift

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51 - 200 employees

📱 Media

🤝 B2B

💰 $1.1M Seed Round - Skift on 2013-05

Media • Tourism • B2B

Skift is a media and intelligence company that covers the global travel industry, providing news, in-depth analysis, research, newsletters, podcasts, events, and advisory services for travel and hospitality professionals and executives. It publishes timely reporting across sectors such as airlines, hotels, online travel, cruises, and tourism, and offers membership research products, conferences, executive search, and custom content/marketing services for industry stakeholders.

📋 Description

• Own large, complex engagements from problem framing through delivery as the single named lead accountable for scope, staffing, timeline, risk, and quality. • Direct the analytical and conceptual approach, driving strategic outcomes and ensuring every deliverable meets Skift Advisory's standard for accuracy, insight, and storytelling. • Serve as the senior point of contact for client leadership, nurturing long-term, strategic partnerships rather than one-off engagements. • Lead business development across target sectors, identifying opportunities, building relationships, and securing high-value engagements to actively grow the book. • Own the development of large-scale proposals and strategic pitches from scoping to the win, bringing deep commercial discipline to our pipeline. • Forecast capacity, surface risks early, and escalate issues with a clear recommendation—not just a status update. • Represent Skift Advisory as a thought leader, speaker, and panel moderator at major industry forums, including our own Skift Global Forum, turning on-stage visibility into relationships and pipeline. • Draw on proprietary research to author reports, document methodologies, and ensure intellectual property compounds within the firm rather than living in individual heads. • Mentor and develop Senior Strategists and Associates, building a strong leadership pipeline and raising delivery quality across the team. • Help build and scale the overall practice by strengthening methodologies, playbooks, and frameworks, contributing directly to how we organize, staff, and bring new capabilities to market.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or a destination marketing/management organization in a strategic planning role. • Top-Tier Consulting Background: Experience at the Principal/Director level at a global strategy firm (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Strategy&, Deloitte) or a specialized travel/hospitality consultancy is strongly preferred. • Deep Industry Expertise: Extensive, current knowledge of the global travel and tourism sector, its clients, and its dynamics (this is essential, not a nice-to-have). • Executive Presence: Outstanding client and senior-stakeholder management skills, with the ability to lead board- and C-suite-level discussions, navigate complex dynamics diplomatically, and speak confidently on stage to senior industry audiences. • Advanced Strategic Rigor: The ability to independently frame problems, build storylines, translate proprietary data into defensible recommendations, and create expert-level PowerPoint presentations. • Education & Languages: A Bachelor's degree is required (MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred). Full fluency in English is required; Arabic and Spanish are strong assets. • Global Agility: The ability to travel internationally (often on short notice, requiring a valid passport and visa eligibility) and the flexibility to support calls across multiple regions, with a required ability to work within the Middle East time zone.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to grow within a respected and innovative media company. • Exposure to the intersection of media, events, and travel intelligence. • Collaborative, supportive, and remote-friendly work environment.