Associate Director, Crisis and Resilience Consulting, Middle East

Control Risks Group Holdings Ltd; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the United Arab Emirates seeks a consultant to deliver organisational resilience projects across various sectors. The successful candidate will manage client relationships, lead business development efforts, and support project delivery within the Middle East region. This role offers the chance to work with a diverse team and engage in innovative approaches to resilience and risk management consulting. Some travel required within the GCC region.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in organisational resilience and consultancy.
• Strong understanding of crisis and risk management.
• Ability to drive business development and manage client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver organisational resilience consulting projects.
• Manage a portfolio of projects and ensure commercial targets are met.
• Client liaison and business development efforts.

Job description

Role Purpose

Origination and delivery of organisational resilience consulting projects across the Middle East, serving a range of sectors including leisure and entertainment, hospitality, real estate development, financial services, government, and industrial manufacturing.

The successful applicant will be a part of our growing Middle East Hub team, supporting clients in the Middle East as part of our broader EMEA team of over 100 crisis and security consultants. The role will require some travel around the region, predominantly to KSA and other GCC countries.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Undertaking fee earning consultancy, with a:

• Primary focus on organisational resilience: business continuity management planning, crisis management planning, emergency response planning, enterprise risk management consulting.
• Secondary focus on security risk consulting: security risk assessments (site/project/supply-chain/business), security policy and planning consultancy, security/risk maturity assessments and risk workshops.

Practice development and management

• Manage a portfolio of projects, steering delivery and ensuring commercial targets are met.
• Support our people in their personal development in the broad Risk & Resilience domain through mentoring, coaching and real-time feedback.
• Drive technology enablement and integration of emerging tech in our service offerings, methodologies and delivery toolkits.
• Operational planning and project management of client engagements.
• Adopt innovative approaches to development of current practices and new solutions.

Business development / commercial management

• Client liaison, as a trusted advisor for Control Risks in order to develop client relationships across the full breadth of capabilities.
• Create and lead business development efforts, thought leadership and innovation.
• Ensure requests from clients and prospects are dealt with effectively.
• Support to proposal creation and project budget build-ups prior to sign-off by designated managers.
• Provide accurate information on pipeline activity.