AM / Manager - Climate Change & Sustainability Services (CCaSS) - EY - KSA at EY

EY; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 380,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term career opportunities

Continuous learning

Exposure to complex sustainability

Global EY network

Diverse and inclusive culture

Job summary

EY Saudi Arabia is seeking an AM/Manager for Climate Change & Sustainability Services (CCaSS) in Riyadh to lead client engagements and shape strategic sustainability solutions across Energy and Industrials. You will manage multi-stream work, develop business opportunities, and coach a high-performing team, contributing to thought leadership and market growth in a fast-evolving region.

This full-time, on-site role offers exposure to senior stakeholders and a clear path to leadership within EY's

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant sustainability, climate, ESG or consulting experience.
• Experience across Energy and Industrials sectors.
• Proven ability to develop client deliverables and executive communications.
• Based in Riyadh or willing to relocate to Riyadh.

Responsibilities

• Apply structured problem-solving to define client issues and design value-focused solutions.
• Manage workstreams across multiple client engagements with timely delivery.
• Build trusted client relationships and contribute to senior-level discussions.
• Develop persuasive presentations, proposals and executive summaries.
• Identify and shape business development opportunities and go-to-market initiatives.

Skills

Structured thinking

Problem-solving

Strategic mindset

Communication

Business development

Stakeholder management

Slide writing

Team leadership

Education

Undergraduate degree in engineering, environmental science, sustainability, economics, business, public policy or related field

MSc / MBA or advanced degree advantageous

Job description

Apply for AM / Manager - Climate Change & Sustainability Services (CCaSS) - EY - KSA at EY in الرياض, S01, SA. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth. Location: Riyadh Other locations: Primary Location Only Salary: Competitive

Job description

At EY We’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) is seeking a Riyadh-based AM/ Manager to support the growth of our sustainability practice, with a particular focus on Energy and Industrials. The role is suited to a commercially minded sustainability professional who can combine technical understanding with a strategic consulting approach, strong communication, and an entrepreneurial drive to build client relationships and develop new opportunities. You will work across a range of sustainability themes, helping clients understand complex challenges, shape practical solutions, and translate emerging needs into well-defined projects. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to client delivery, business development, thought leadership, and team building in a fast-growing market.

Your key responsibilities

• Apply structured problem-solving to define client issues, develop hypotheses, analyse information, and design practical, value-focused solutions.
• Manage workstreams across multiple client engagements, ensuring high-quality outputs, timely delivery, and effective coordination with senior team members.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and contribute to senior-level discussions across the Energy and Industrials sectors.
• Develop clear, persuasive presentations, proposals, reports, executive summaries, and other client-ready materials.
• Identify and shape business development opportunities by seeding relevant ideas, understanding client priorities, and helping convert opportunities into projects.
• Contribute to proposals, pitches, account planning, market scans, thought leadership, and go-to-market initiatives.
• Advise clients across multiple sustainability topics, which may include climate strategy, ESG, decarbonisation, circular economy, waste management, water stewardship, sustainable supply chains, and sustainability reporting.
• Support work related to climate risk and disclosure, including IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, where relevant to the engagement.
• Contribute to the development of EY methodologies, tools, knowledge assets, and market-facing propositions.
• Support the growth of a high-performing team through coaching, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and active contribution to a positive team culture.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strategic and consulting mindset, with strong structured thinking, problem-solving, and solution-development skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including strong presentation development and slide-writing capability.
• Commercial acumen and a strong business development orientation, with the ability to initiate conversations, develop ideas, and support opportunity conversion.
• Ability to engage confidently with stakeholders, build long-term relationships, and communicate complex topics clearly.
• Broad sustainability experience across Energy and Industrials, with the ability to connect technical issues to business priorities.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, personal accountability, and motivation to help grow the business and build a successful team.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, research, and report-writing skills.

To qualify for the role

• An undergraduate degree, or equivalent, in a relevant discipline such as engineering, environmental science, sustainability, economics, business, public policy, or a related field.
• An MSc, MBA, or other advanced degree is advantageous.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in sustainability, climate change, ESG, strategy, consulting, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience across multiple sustainability topics within the Energy and Industrials sectors.
• Experience developing client deliverables, presentations, proposals, and executive-level communications.
• Evidence of contributing to business development, client relationship management, or the conversion of opportunities into engagements.
• Current location in Riyadh, or the ability and commitment to be based in Riyadh.
• Ideally, you’ll also have Professional experience in the GCC and an understanding of the region’s sustainability and commercial landscape.
• Hands-on experience in circular economy, circularity, and waste management.
• Knowledge of water-related topics, including water strategy, stewardship, efficiency, or risk.
• Understanding of IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, climate risk, and climate-related disclosure requirements.
• Experience with a leading consulting or professional services firm.
• Relevant professional qualifications or further studies in sustainability, climate, ESG, risk, or related disciplines.

What we look for

We are looking for a proactive and commercially focused professional who brings credibility with clients, curiosity across sustainability topics, and the confidence to help grow a developing practice. You will be comfortable moving between strategy and delivery, building relationships, creating compelling materials, and turning early-stage ideas into actionable client opportunities.

What we offer

• Long-term career opportunities within a globally connected professional services organization.
• Continuous learning and development to build the skills and mindset needed for future challenges.
• Exposure to complex sustainability issues and high-impact clients across Energy and Industrials.
• Coaching, collaboration, and opportunities to contribute to the growth of the CCaSS practice.
• A diverse and inclusive culture that values individual perspectives and empowers people to contribute.
• The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.
• EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
• Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
• Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.