Senior Consultant - Strategic Communications

About IP Excellera

IP Excellera is a market leading, integrated strategic advisory firm with service offerings across Strategic Communications, Capital Markets and Investor Relations, Corporate Reporting and Sustainability, with offices in Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Dubai, IP Excellera serves some of the region’s most high-profile companies. IP Excellera’s team of 60 talented consultants are drawn from the world’s leading financial, government and academic institutions offering clients best in class advice so they can navigate risk, reputation and change. The company represents clients in the public and private sectors and has a portfolio of more than 100 corporate clients with a combined market value of over $3 trillion. In 2025, IP Excellera joined Excellera Advisory Group, one of the leading corporate affairs advisory groups in EMEA.

Key responsibility

• Project-manage client accounts end-to-end with support from junior colleagues and guidance from senior colleagues
• Ensure that deliverables are accurate and of superior quality, setting the bar for the wider account team
• Build rapport with clients and become their trusted, go-to advisor, leveraging account leads as needed
• Contribute to growing the client portfolio, proactively sourcing and co-pitching for opportunities
• Develop communications strategies as well as proposals with support from the team
• Develop and help place both short- and long-form content for senior leaders
• Lead regular client meetings and monitor and manage project progress
• Represent and help raise awareness of the firm in the MEA region
• Support new business initiatives through RfP development and through your own network

Requirements

• Native-level in Arabic; proficiency in English.
• Saudi national, based in Riyadh
• Deep knowledge of and familiarity with working in the MEA region
• Exceptional attention to detail, skilled at time management, highly organized
• Strong and previously proven research, analysis, and critical thinking abilities
• Exceptional communications skills in a range of formats – from written to spoken
• Strong project as well as people management skills with the mindset of a team-player
• Prior MENA experience in strategic communications either with a consultancy or in-house
• Track record of success in business development – both reactive (RFPs) and proactive (leads)
• Client-orientation and agility, committed to meeting changing business and client needs as required
• Willingness to travel regionally and internationally and work from client offices as and when necessary