Director of Operations
Quick Summary
Accountability: owns the number, not the activity. Operational rigour: root cause before remedy, measures before and after. People leadership: turns function leads into owners.
- Own the service levels: first response time, first contact resolution, average resolution time and reopened tickets. Restore and hold first contact resolution at or above 80% through root-cause analysis of repeat-contact drivers,
- Agent enablement and process redesign.
- Manage capacity, scheduling, quality monitoring, and any outsourced service partners.
- Reduce cost to serve per booking without trading away resolution quality.
- Own listing content completeness, photo quality and destination content readiness.
- Scale proven content interventions across the destination portfolio; the Abha pilot lifted click-through from 6.0% to
- 11.8%.
- Set and enforce the host content standard with clear controls and consequences.
- Quality and unit readiness
- Own the unit onboarding and activation journey: activation rate, time to activate, and time to first reservation with
- clear SLA
- Close the gap between activation and occupancy by working with Commercial and Product on destination
- readiness.
- Run the quality assurance framework across both the guest and the host journey.
- Lead, develop and structure the three function teams, and build capability and succession within them.
- Partner with Product on operational defects that require a product fix, sorting and visibility, and claims.
- Partner with Data & Analytics to close instrumentation gaps and automate departmental reporting.
- Transform the team to be the center of operational excellence
Requirements
~1 min read- Bachelor’s degree; a postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
- Ten or more years in operations, including five or more leading multi-function or multi-site teams in a marketplace,
- e-commerce platform.
- Proven turnaround of contact-center service levels, evidenced on first contact resolution, response time, and
- resolution time.
- A numerate operator who owns a KPI tree, sets targets, runs a monthly performance cycle and defends the
- numbers to an executive audience.
- Experience as a transformation leader
- Professional fluency in Arabic and English.
Preferred
- KSA or GCC market experience in a digital platform.
- Exposure to Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, or an equivalent process-improvement discipline.
- Experience introducing automation or AI-assisted tooling into a contact center
Accountability: owns the number, not the activity.
Operational rigour: root cause before remedy, measures before and after.
People leadership: turns function leads into owners.
Cross-functional influence: gets fixes prioritized outside their own reporting line.
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 2, 2026
- First seen
- September 28, 2026
- Last seen
- October 8, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 9
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 31%
- Scored at
- October 8, 2026
Signal breakdown
Gathern is a peer-to-peer vacation rental marketplace in Saudi Arabia, allowing users to book various accommodations like apartments, villas, chalets, and camps directly from owners.
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