Senior Consultant, Risk and Resilience Consulting - Middle East

Control Risks; United Arab Emirates; Hybrid; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in the UAE is seeking a professional with over 8 years of experience in organisational resilience consulting. This role involves managing client relationships, driving project proposals, and supporting consultancy focusing on business continuity and crisis management. Fluency in Arabic is essential. The position supports hybrid working arrangements with a competitive compensation package that includes a discretionary global bonus scheme.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Discretionary global bonus scheme

Hybrid working arrangements

Qualifications

• At least 8 years’ experience in organisational resilience and risk consulting.
• Strong affinity with cyber and information technology.
• Demonstrated ability to build successful client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Undertake consultancy in organisational resilience and security risk.
• Act as a trusted advisor for clients, managing relationships.
• Support proposal creation and operational planning of client engagements.

Skills

Consultancy experience in organisational resilience

Business continuity management

Crisis management planning

Project management

Fluency in Arabic

Education

Relevant bachelor’s degree

Professional certification in business continuity or enterprise risk

Job description

Role Purpose

This role will be responsible for the 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 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, 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.
• Client liaison, acting as a trusted advisor for Control Risks to develop client relationships across the full breadth of capabilities.
• Ensuring client and prospect requests are dealt with effectively.
• Supporting proposal creation and project budget build‑ups prior to sign‑off by designated managers.
• Providing accurate information on pipeline activity to managers.
• Operational planning and project management of client engagements.
• Adopting innovative approaches to development of current practices and new solutions.
• Drive technology enablement of our service offerings and client engagements.
• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.
• We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in‑person time together – in the office and with our clients – while continuing to support flexible and remote working.

Knowledge & Experience

• ESSENTIAL: At least 8 years’ experience of delivering organisational resilience, (enterprise) risk and business continuity management engagements in a consultancy setting.
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in organisational resilience, (enterprise) risk, and business continuity management.
• Strong affinity with cyber and information technology.
• Demonstratable project management skills.
• Fluency in Arabic (speaking and writing).
• PREFERRED: Experience of working in public sector, finance, real estate, construction, industrial and energy / oil & gas sectors.
• Experience of working in the GCC.
• Proven ability to build successful client relationships.
• Understanding of project budgeting and capture, project management, and project closure processes.

Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• ESSENTIAL: Relevant bachelor’s degree; Professional certification in business continuity or enterprise risk (i.e., IRM, CBCI / CBCP or equivalent).
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to present information to clients in a professional setting.
• Ability to quickly assimilate large quantities of new information.
• PREFERRED: Masters’ degree or post‑graduate qualification in either risk management, organisational resilience, business continuity management or disaster/emergency management.

Competencies

Business Intellect; Client‑centric approach; Personal impact; Solution focused; Tenacity; Commitment to operating in a globally collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.