Abstract: The current state of Iraq economy and the manufacturing sector makes it is necessary to search for the successful practices that are appropriate to the success of the companies. This research aims to evaluate strategic leadership practices in Iraqi’s cement manufacturing sector with a view of proffering managerial implications to improve competitiveness. A sample of 134 engineers in the two most active cement factories in the middle of Iraq was determined for this study. Descriptive analysis was used to show respondent’s views of strategic leadership practices and critical success factors for competitiveness. Findings revealed that employee’s responsiveness towards competitiveness low as opposed to strategic leadership. More interestingly and as expected is the fact that employee’s strong inclinations, evidenced by high mean scores that refer to strategic leadership practices are exist in Iraqi manufacturing sector. But it need some steps to make it success and it is affected by the Iraqi circumstances.