Employment:
Full Time
Line of Service
Advisory
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Operations Strategy
Management Level
Senior Associate
Job Description & Summary
A career within CIPS Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
Line of Service Overview
In Consulting, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best across industry and professional functional advisory services. We focus on helping solve client problems by offering both strategic and operational deep industry expertise. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, always ensuring that we are able to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face. Our Consulting practice currently focuses on several core sectors including Consumer and Industrial Products & Services, Energy, Utilities & Mining (CIPS), Financial Services, Government, Health Industries, Finance Function, People and Organisations and Technology.
CIPS Overview
Our growing practice provides management consulting services in the areas of strategy and operations, aiming to help a diverse set of clients anticipate and address their most complex business challenges.
We focus on helping solve our client’s most important problems through deep industry expertise from strategy to execution. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, always ensuring that we are able to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
– Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above.
– Train and lead staff.
– Establish effective working relationships directly with clients.
– Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen.
– Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues.
– Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients.
– Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand.
Preferred Skills
– Strong Consulting background (high performer in a strategy house or Big 4).
– Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier university with consistent outstanding academic record; advanced degree or MBA is preferred.
– Self-starter, eager to break new ground, and create opportunities for others.
– Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem solving skills.
– Strong written and oral communication skills with a confident presence and the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas.
– Demonstrated ability to impact top and/ or bottom line financial results.
– Experience within Consumer Industrial Products & Services / Resources, this can include Oil & Gas, Utilities, Transport & Logistics, Industrial Products, Retail & Consumer Goods (cross competency).
– Comfortable working with people at all levels in an organization.
– Ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East.
– Experience in strategic planning, operational improvement, data analytics, operational transformation, junior team leadership, mid-tier client management.
Minimum year’s experience required
– 2+ years of relevant experience with a renowned management consulting firm.
Language
– Fluent in English, multilingual Arabic speaker preferable.
Travel Requirements
Up to 60%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes
Government Clearance Required?
No
PwC firms help organizations and individuals to create the value they’re looking for.
We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the global PwC network.
In our 3 key areas of business or Lines of Service Assurance, Tax, and Advisory we work with our clients from business start ups to the worlds leading organizations to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
We help our own people to learn, discover, develop and make a real difference all the way through their working lives. And we have big ambitions to grow.
PwC Middle East Region is part of what we call the Central Cluster and includes the UK, Europe and Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
PwC has been established in the region for over 40 years, we already employ over 4500 people and we are on course to become the Middle East number one professional service firm.
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