Senior Manager - Consulting Rail and Road

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Advisory

Industry/Sector
Transportation and Logistics

Specialism
Advisory - Other

Management Level
Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary
As a member of PwC's rapidly growing Middle East Transport & Logistics Practice, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best and brightest consultants across the industry. You will enter a fast career track, and have the opportunity to rapidly expand your horizon across the entire Middle East T&L industry.

Regionally, the land transport sector is playing a pivotal role in both shaping and enabling ongoing national transformation programs through enhancing road and railway infrastructure, enabling efficient transport of goods and people, and attracting foreign direct investments. PwC is at the heart of this sector's transformation. We boast a globally recognised practice with over 5,000 professionals, and a very strong presence in the Middle East. As part of our regional practice, you will be a member of a wider community of multi-modal experts that provide a one-stop business advisory solution to both public and private tier-1 organizations.

As a Senior Manager you would combine a track record of strategy or management consulting with a proven portfolio of projects in the land transport sector, and broader transport & logistics industry knowledge, preferably in the Middle East region. We expect our Senior Managers to be thought leaders within their areas of expertise and have an incipient network within the railway operators, trucking companies, freight forwarders and logistics agents.

Responsibilities as a Senior Manager:

- Lead and deliver consulting assignments - develop content, project plans, distribute work to team members and oversee day-to-day delivery. Assignments are expected to be predominantly within the land transport sector, but could also include to the broader transport and logistics space
- Perform hypothesis driven thinking, guide the team's analyses and push their thinking to draw meaningful insights, and ensure credibility of analytical approaches, methodologies and conclusions.
- Review work produced by the team to ensure highest quality levels output aligned with the scope of work, delivered on time and within budget to the expectations of the client.
- Engage client counterpart(s) to align with them on the work plans and interim and final recommendations.
- Ensure smooth handover of project deliverables and results and effectively close out consulting assignments with the client.
- Build strong, trusted advisor relationships with your clients beyond the immediate consulting assignment and identify and contribute to follow-on work, and maintain an emerging network of contacts and relationships inside and outside the firm's network.
- Proactively lead the drafting of proposals and marketing efforts and participate in proposal pitches with a focus on converting pipelines into secured mandates .
- Stay up to date on the land transport industry in the region, including the government agenda, players' positioning and strategies, latest trends and developments.
- Develop and maintain intellectual capital and publish thought leadership on aviation to enhance our brand.  
- Provide guidance and coaching to team members as needed and ensure a professional and productive team environment.
- Mentor - formally and informally - other members in your team/ business unit in order to foster a high performance team environment.
- Manage internal requirements for quality, compliance, policies, procedures and systems and related.

Requirements

Requirements:

- 8-12 years of professional work experience out of which at least 4-6 are in consulting with a leading global consulting firm, with a proven portfolio of projects in the rail and roads sector, preferably in the Middle East, advising tier-1 organization
- Experience in railway, truck, taxi, rail, metro, tolling, and / or bus operators, land logistic companies, investment funds active in this space, and / or Land Transport Authorities or governmental entities in the sector. 
- Key areas of functional expertise include, but are not limited to, strategy development, strategic transformations, capability led transformations, strategy implementation, corporate governance, operating models, etc.
- Strong business acumen and structured problem solving capabilities, using first principle thinking to frame solutions. Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, validate, structure and analyze financial, operational, and market data.
- Output focused and resilient with the ability to rally resources and maintain momentum within a fast paced and high energy team.
- Able to work independently and effectively within a team.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to operate in a multi-stakeholder environment.
- Ability and willingness for frequent travel within the GCC and Middle East.
- Education: Relevant Bachelor's degree, with Masters degree a plus, ideally an MBA from a reputable business school.
- Language Skills: Proficient in written and spoken English. Arabic is a significant plus

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.