Senior Consultant - Strategy (12 months engagement)

Purpose of Position

Palladium is currently recruiting for a Senior Consultant 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 Senior Consultant develops relationships with client team members. They are expected to manage themselves – time allocation, learning new things, maintaining project timelines and budgets for areas that they control. The Senior Consultant may also be managing others on the project.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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
• Prepare studies and analysis as per global and local best practices
• Propose initiatives, develop specialized plans and define project scopes to achieve client objectives
• Formulate and measure strategic objectives, KPIs, and targets
• Monitor the implementation of initiatives and document achievements
• Assess risk and mitigation strategies to reduce any negative effects on projects

Key Requirements

• Saudi nationality
• Bachelor’s degree from a leading institution
• Relevant consulting experience, preferably in strategy consulting or equivalent multi-client consulting environment
• 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