Management Consultant

Management Consultants & Senior Consultant (12 Months)

1. 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 based on the requirement is only for KSA nationals.

2. Primary responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of the Consultant are to:

-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

-Analyse market and client data sets to create insight

-Craft day-to-day client team communication

-Draft client deliverables, presentation and proposal materials

3. Reporting requirements

The role reports to the Manager or above. Reporting requirements include:

-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

4. 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.

5. Authority levels

The role carries a degree of autonomy with appropriate consultation. The role is required to:

-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

6. 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)

-Excellent MS Office skills

-Good written and verbal business communications skills

-Familiarity with the Kaplan/Norton framework and/or other performance management methodology is highly desirable

7. 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