Consulting, CIPS - Surface Transport - Subcontractor - Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Advisory

Industry/Sector
Transportation and Logistics

Specialism
Operations Strategy

Management Level
Specialist

Job Description & Summary
We have a major engagement in Doha that requires additional expertise from a subcontractor. If you have project management and/or consulting experience in the transport sector and are immediately available then please do look at this vacancy.

PwC Middle East Overview
Established in the region for over 40 years, PwC Middle East employs over 5,000 people across 12 countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates. Complementing our depth of industry expertise and breadth of skills is our sound knowledge of local business environments across the Middle East region. Our tailored solutions help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market, and beyond.

Line of Service Overview
In Consulting, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best across industry and professional functional advisory services. We focus on helping solve client problems by offering both strategic and operational deep industry expertise. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, always ensuring that we are able to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face. Our Consulting practice currently focuses on several core sectors including Consumer and Industrial Products & Services, Energy, Utilities & Mining (CIPS), Financial Services, Government, Health Industries, Finance Function, People and Organisations and Technology.

CIPS Overview
Our growing practice provides management consulting services in the areas of strategy and operations, aiming to help a diverse set of clients anticipate and address their most complex business challenges. We focus on helping solve our client's most important problems through deep industry expertise from strategy to execution. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, always ensuring that we are able to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face.

Responsibilities
- As a subcontractor you will work closely with our consultants to deliver high quality work to our clients.
- Write and present winning proposals to support our clients in ME.
- Supporting the development of new propositions to help our client.
- You should be able to leverage your experience in transportation to bring best practices to support our clients in achieving set engagement goals.
- Keeping up to date with current trends from the region and from across the world.
- You should have led teams and mentored/ trained other members in your team in order to foster a high performance team environment.
- Whilst working in the CIPS team you will develop your understanding of the key themes in the market and in the region. You will work collaboratively with other CIPS experts to shape the future of our clients and to bring about positive change.

Requirements

Preferred Skills and Experience
- Ideally have previous consulting experience or have held similar advisory/project roles
- Project management track record.
- Must have experience in Land Transportation (Road, Public Transport, Rail etc.)
- Must have regional experience
- Experience of Qatar is favourable
- Experience in Land Transport Licensing is favourable
- Bachelor's degree from a top-tier university with consistent outstanding academic record; advanced degree or MBA is preferred.
- Self-starter, eager to break new ground, and create opportunities for others.
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem solving skills.
- Strong written and oral communication skills with a confident presence and the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas.
- Demonstrated progression and advancement into positions of greater responsibility.
- Demonstrated ability to impact top and/ or bottom line financial results.
- Team-oriented and demonstrated success in delivering results and leading teams, significant management responsibility early in the career is a plus.
- Comfortable working with people at all levels in an organization.
- Experience in strategic planning, operational improvement, data analytics, operational transformation, junior team leadership, mid-tier client management.

Minimum year's experience required
- 4-7 years of relevant experience with a renowned management consulting firm.

Language
- Fluent in English, multilingual Arabic speaker preferable.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.