Consulting Manager

Consulting Manager

Project Overview and Role:

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

Palladium is currently recruiting for a Consulting Manager to join our dynamic team in Saudi Arabia. Together with clients and the other Palladium team members, Manager frames the goals and deliverables for each client project, and has direct responsibility for crafting roles that provide growth and development opportunities for the more junior consultants in the team. Manager integrates findings across various internal and client working teams to ensure we achieve maximum client impact, and to ensure that the project is completed on time and on budget. They also develop Palladium’s relationship within the broader client organization while building up their business development skills.

Primary responsibilities:

• Develop expertise in a particular industry or two
• Partner with client and Palladium leadership to scope the project, its duration and high level work plan
• Take leadership/project management responsibility on a range of engagement types
• Demonstrate expertise in customizing service offerings to prospect clients
• Establish and manage relationships with client leadership and executives
• Oversee project delivery and make all day-to-day decisions
• Staff the project and assign roles and responsibilities to deliver required results
• Ensure the project is delivered on-time and at margin targets
• Manage scope creep and execute change orders when needed
• Ensure coordination/alignment of deliverables to maximize value
• Customize the delivery approach/best practices to meet client needs

Required Qualifications:

Key Requirements:

• Substantial experience, preferably in strategy consulting, programme management or equivalent multi-client consulting environment
• Balanced skills in general problem solving, concept development, project management, and facilitation
• Experience with performance management methodologies, particularly the Kaplan/Norton framework, is desirable
• Experience leading teams in the delivery of consulting services
• Outstanding facilitation skills, memorable in-person presentation abilities
• Results driven, persistent, and persuasive
• Applies lateral and critical thinking techniques
• Self-starter/pro-active, strong entrepreneurial spirit
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and Arabic

Company Overview:

About Palladium – Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people’s lives.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status. 

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss. 

Safeguarding – We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.

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