About the Role
This position involves leading the sales and delivery of high-impact projects within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, while addressing complex strategic challenges and achieving business objectives for clients. The successful candidate will proactively manage client engagements, work alongside practice leads to deliver tailored solutions, and develop strategies that align with the regional consulting business.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the sales and delivery of high impact projects in GCC while resolving complex strategic problems and meeting business targets for clients.
- Proactively manage Client engagements in key markets to foster growth in value-added services.
- Lead the planning and delivery of solutions and service offerings into the market, collaborating with practice leads to align with regional client needs.
- Identify additional client project opportunities and lead the preparation of proposals for new client work.
- Develop strategies for the consulting business in the GCC region aligned with the VCA CEMEA and GCC VCA Digital and Strategy, Risk and Portfolio Leads.
- Drive deployment and roll-out of key strategic topics and capabilities.
- Support GCC Consulting & Analytics leadership on project and practice economics, including forecasts, burn rates, utilization, and quality management of project deliverables.
- Synthesize and manage complex project structures, including objectives, scope, budget, and delivery.
- Develop intellectual property (IP) and share knowledge with consulting and data science teams globally to enhance local client services with best practices.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or 6+ years with a PhD.
- A minimum of 15 years of experience in a financial services consulting role (a combination of consulting and banking experience is highly desirable).
- Proven experience in business development and project delivery within a consulting framework.
- Experience driving large-scale change management initiatives in either a consulting or practitioner capacity.
- A combination of local, regional, and global experience in financial services is strongly desired.
- Ability to develop strategies and activities that enhance program effectiveness based on performance metrics.
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills; strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Relationship management skills, with capability to engage internal and external stakeholders at senior levels.
- Strong group facilitation and presentation abilities.
- Willingness to travel frequently and work on client sites for extended periods across GCC.
- Fluency in English is mandatory; additional language skills, particularly Arabic, are highly preferred.
Work Arrangement
The company requires at least 3 days of in-office work; specific expectations for these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
