Consulting - Transport & Logistics - Senior Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver consulting assignments – develop content, project plans, distribute work to team members and oversee day-to-day delivery.
• Review work produced by the team to ensure highest quality levels output is aligned with the scope of work, delivered on time and within budget to the expectations of the client.
• Perform hypothesis driven thinking, guide the team’s analyses and push their thinking to draw meaningful insights
• Ensure credibility of analytical approaches, methodologies and conclusions.
• Engage client counterpart(s) to align with them on the work plans and interim and final recommendations.
• Ensure smooth handover of project deliverables and results and effectively closes on consulting assignments with the client Clients, Business Development, and Industry Leadership.
• Build strong, trusted advisor relationships with your clients beyond the immediate consulting assignment and identify and contribute to follow-on work.
• Proactively lead the drafting of proposals and marketing efforts and participate in proposal pitches with a focus on converting pipeline into secured mandates .
• Maintain an emerging network of contacts and relationships inside and outside the firm’s network.
• Stay up to date on market and industry latest trends and developments.
• Develop and maintain intellectual capital and publish thought leadership on relevant topics to enhance our brand. Provide guidance and coaching to team members as needed and ensure a professional and productive team environment.
• Mentor – formally or informally - other members in your team/ business unit in order to foster a high performance team environment.
• Actively shape own development priorities Internal Management.
• Collaborate across Business Units and Lines of Services to support the delivery of differentiated propositions to the market.
• Manage internal requirements for quality, compliance, policies, procedures and systems and related.

Requirements

• 8-15 years of professional work experience out of which at least 4-6 are in consulting with a leading global consulting firm with the remainder in transport or related industry. Work experience in public authority or governmental entities will also be considered.
• Deep understanding of national and public transport sector priorities across the GCC with strong understanding of the latest plans and policies across governments and regulatory authorities
• Experience in Ports operations is a plus.
• Proven track record in leading and successfully delivering on cross industry consulting assignments to tier-1 clients..
• Key areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, strategy development, strategic transformations, capability led transformations, strategy implementation, corporate governance, operating models, other.
• Strong acumen for problem solving and using first principle thinking to frame issues.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, validate, structure and analyse all types of data (such as Financial, Operational, Market).
• Output focused and resilient with the ability to rally resources and maintain momentum within a fast paced and high energy team.
• Able to work independently and effectively within a team.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to operate in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Ability and willingness for frequent travel within the GCC and Middle East.
• Education: ideally an MBA from a reputable university or equivalent with high academic achievement.
• Language Skills: Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic is a must