Senior Manager Director Business Consulting SC & Operations UAE

EY; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the United Arab Emirates seeks a highly motivated Manager to lead client engagement teams. You will manage large transformational client projects and mentor colleagues while driving business performance improvements. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in procurement transformations and a track record of leading teams, ideally with 5 years in a tier one consultancy. Competitive compensation and career development opportunities are offered.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Career development opportunities

Support from colleagues

Qualifications

• Strong experience in procurement transformations in industry or consulting.
• 5 years experience at a tier 1 consultancy.
• Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead large transformational client engagements.
• Establish valued relationships with C-level clients.
• Manage multiple teams and mentor colleagues.

Skills

Procurement transformations

Managing teams

Communication skills

Business development

Analytical mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The opportunity

We currently are seeking a highly motivated Manager to lead client engagement teams work with a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services and participate in business development activities on strategic and global priority accounts.

Our Supply Chain & Operations team members provide insights into Procurement transformation covering:

• Spend Management cost optimisation category management strategic sourcing
• Procurement Operating Model Transformation
• Procurement Digitalisation
• Procurement Operations
• ESG

This team focuses on helping clients run their supply chains effectively in order to improve their business performance

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager your key role will be to lead large transformational client engagements as well as internal projects. Drawing on your knowledge skills and experience you will establish valued relationships with external clients at the C level. You will lead large global and regional bids proposals and thought leadership. You will lead teams at our clients supporting them with improving their business performance. You will be responsible for presenting executive summary findings to enact change. You will manage multiple EY colleagues across levels and client team members. You will review others work to ensure it is of a high quality. You will mentor others as they progress in their own career.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Strong experience and track record of leading successful procurement transformations in industry or consulting
• Experience of managing staff on multiple projects and providing direction to team members
• 5 years experience at a tier 1 consultancy
• Outstanding academic record to at least Batchelor degree level
• Experience and passion for one of Digital solutions and trends operating model development third-party spend management ESG or leading supply chain solutions
• Excellent communications skills including verbal written and presentation skills
• Entrepreneurial flare and the ability to identify business opportunities and cross sell different services and/or products
• Arabic speaking and reading an advantage but not essential

Ideally you’ll also have:

• An analytical mindset
• A change mindset
• A continuous learning mindset
• A teaming mindset

• The ability to travel across the region

What we look for

Alongside your comprehensive and proven technical expertise you will also be a born leader with a passion for:

• Developing people through effectively supervising coaching and mentoring all levels of staff
• Conducting performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
• Contributing to our people initiatives that include recruiting and retaining our professionals

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where you will be rewarded based on your performance and recognised for the value you bring to the business. We also offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way thats right for you

About EY

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If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.

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Required Experience:

Director