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 Transport & Logistics Practice, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best and brightest consultants across the industry.

Regionally, the aviation sector is playing a pivotal role in both shaping and enabling ongoing national transformation programs through enhancing airport infrastructure, enabling tourism and attracting foreign direct investments. PwC is at the heart of this sector's transformation. We boast a globally recognised practice that is 5,000 professionals with strong roots in the Middle East region. 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 tier-1 organizations.

As a Senior Manager you would combine a long track record of strategy consulting, with a proven portfolio of projects in the aviation sector, coped with 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 airports, airline, ground handling and ANSP industries.

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 dominantly within the aviation sector, but could be widen up to the broader transportation and logistics
- 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.
- Perform hypothesis driven thinking, guide the team's analyses and push their thinking to draw meaningful insights
- Ensure credibility of analytical approaches, methodologies and conclusions.
- 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 closes on consulting assignments with the client Clients, Business Development, and Industry Leadership.
- 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 air transport market in the region, 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 or 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.