Management Consultant

Palladium: Make It Possible; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Saudi Arabia is seeking Management Consultants and Senior Consultants for a full-time role on a 1-year project. The focus is on delivering advisory services to a strategic government entity. Candidates need a Bachelor's degree, relevant consulting experience, and strong communication skills in English and Arabic. The role involves managing client relationships and contributing to data analysis and solution design.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of relevant consulting experience for consultant roles.
• 3+ years of relevant experience for senior consultant roles.
• Good written and verbal business communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand client data and present analysis.
• Support in articulating client needs.
• Conduct independent data gathering activities.

Skills

Results driven

Outstanding presentation skills

Familiarity with performance management methodology

Proficiency in Arabic

Education

Bachelor’s degree from a leading institution

Job description

Management Consultants & Senior Consultant (12 Months)

Purpose of Position

Palladium is currently recruiting for Management Consultants and Senior Consultants to join our dynamic team on a 1-year project in Riyadh, KSA, focused on the delivery of advisory services to a strategic government entity that is at the center of the Kingdom’s transformation.

As a key member of the team, the consultants develop relationships with client team members. They are expected to manage themselves – time allocation, learning new things, and maintaining project timelines for areas that they control. This requirement is only for KSA nationals.

Primary responsibilities

• Understand client or external data and present analysis to project team
• Support senior members in clearly articulating client needs
• Participate in designing solutions for solving client issues
• Conduct independent data gathering activities
• Design qualitative and quantitative research tools
• Analyze market and client data sets to create insight
• Craft day-to-day client team communication
• Draft client deliverables, presentation and proposal materials

Reporting requirements

• Attendance of all team meetings
• Participate in regular project status updates with the project manager on client engagements
• Regular updates with line manager
• Timely submission of assigned reports/deliverables

Relationships

Key relationships will be both with their manager, project managers as well as the wider Consulting team. When working on a particular client project, there will be a designated project manager who the consultant will be required to liaise closely with throughout the duration of the project.

Authority levels

• Analyze and make sound recommendations to the project manager
• Contribute to process improvement through innovative and cost-effective proposals/ideas/suggestions
• Work autonomously to identify key issues in the client’s internal and external environment and apply relevant Palladium knowledge and practices to identify and develop analysis and recommendations/deliverables
• Identify opportunities to provide constructive feedback with the objective of contributing to the personal and professional development of both self and team members

Minimum Education and experience required

• Bachelor’s degree from a leading institution
• Relevant consulting experience (1 – 2 years for consultant roles, 3+ years for senior consultants)
• Good written and verbal business communications skills
• Familiarity with the Kaplan/Norton framework and/or other performance management methodology is highly desirable

Key Skills required

• Results driven, persistent, flexible, and persuasive
• Demonstrate ability to design a good PowerPoint slide as well as an entire presentation
• Outstanding presentation and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and Arabic

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Strategy/Planning, Project Management, and Consulting
• Operations Consulting