Principal Consultant, Energy Sector

Principal Consultant, Energy Sector (Saudi Arabia)

Location: Bahrain/Saudi Arabia Type: Full-time | Senior-level

About Action Labs

Action Labs is a Bahrain-based growth and creative consultancy. We help brands plan smart, produce great work, and launch with impact.

Role summary

The Energy Field Consultant provides sector, market, and stakeholder intelligence to ensure the successful delivery of a multi-quarter marketing, positioning, and growth roadmap for an energy-sector client operating in Saudi Arabia and the GCC. This role ensures all strategic, narrative, and activation outputs are technically accurate, culturally credible, and aligned with real-world decision-making structures in the Saudi energy ecosystem.

What you’ll do

• Lead market and sector intelligence inputs by contributing to a structured research sprint within the first 30 days, delivering validated insights on Saudi energy sector trends, regulatory dynamics, buyer personas, and decision-making structures used in 100% of strategy and positioning outputs.
• Validate competitive and ecosystem analysis by reviewing and stress-testing competitor positioning, partnership logic, and market-entry assumptions, ensuring zero factual or regulatory inaccuracies in all client-facing materials.
• Advise on brand positioning and narrative development by reviewing and refining hero narratives, value propositions, and campaign themes, ensuring alignment with Saudi energy-sector priorities and acceptance by senior stakeholder audiences (e.g., utilities, regulators, large energy buyers).
• Ensure localization accuracy by validating Arabic and English key messaging for cultural nuance, terminology, and sector credibility.
• Support thought leadership development by contributing outlines, key messages, or expert reviews (reports, whitepapers, keynote abstracts), ensuring technical accuracy and relevance to KSA energy discourse.
• Enable media and PR credibility by advising on topics, angles, and language for press releases and interviews, reducing factual clarification requests from media to near zero.
• Advise on campaign focus areas by aligning quarterly campaign themes with sector maturity, procurement cycles, and investment priorities, improving lead relevance.
• Support event and ecosystem engagement strategy by advising on priority forums, speaker positioning, and partnership logic, contributing to successful pitching or participation in at least 1-2 major regional events annually.
• Participate in internal alignment sessions and workshops by providing sector context and decision-making insights, ensuring marketing, business development, and leadership teams demonstrate improved alignment and confidence in Saudi-market engagement.
• Contribute to performance reviews and forward planning by providing sector-informed interpretation of H1 and H2 performance results and advising on strategic adjustments for future cycles.

What you’ll bring

• You provide sector intelligence and strategic judgment, not executional marketing delivery.
• You act as a trusted internal and client-facing advisor, ensuring credibility in a highly technical and relationship-driven sector.

What you’ll bring

• Minimum 4 years’ experience at a top-tier management consulting firm in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with substantive exposure to the energy sector.
• Demonstrated experience advising clients in the Saudi Arabia or GCC energy sector (utilities, energy transition, power, infrastructure, or adjacent public-sector entities).
• Strong understanding of the decision-making structures, stakeholder dynamics, and procurement cycles in the energy field in the GCC, ideally in Saudi Arabic
• Ability to translate technical and regulatory complexity into clear strategic guidance for non-technical teams.
• Excellent written and verbal English; Arabic strongly preferred.
• Comfortable working across strategy, marketing, PR, and leadership teams.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting market-entry or positioning work in KSA or GCC.
• Exposure to energy transition, sustainability, or infrastructure-led growth agendas.
• Previous involvement in thought leadership or policy-adjacent publications.

Hours & travel

• Sunday–Thursday, standard office hours; occasional evenings/weekends for activations (time off in lieu).
• Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• consulting experience, including energy sector exposure?: 4 years (Preferred)