Consulting - Government - Defense - Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ref: HP639-1674

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Line of Service
Advisory

Specialism
Advisory - Other

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
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, Financial Services, Government, Health Industries, Finance Function, People and Organisations and Technology.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a high growth Defence Consulting team, where you will play a key role in developing and delivering projects, to clients in the Defence Sector across the Middle East. The Defence team is looking for consulting professionals who have experience and expertise in one or more of the following:

- Experience in Defence in the Middle East, either within the government or industry sector.
- Experience in delivery of defence projects and engagements - client relationships and business development will be involved to an extent but this is primarily a delivery role.
- Understanding of Middle East defence markets, clients and industry.
- A proven skill set in Defence Project Delivery, Commercial & Acquisition, Localization & Offsets & Capability Planning.
- Project management experience,  specifically in the Defence industry.
- All candidates must have defence experience, either working with the military or within the defence industry.
 
Responsibilities

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Working alongside prestigious client teams across the Middle East.
- Working as part of a multi-faceted team comprising of defence experts, consultants and technical SME's, amongst other.
- Advising, and helping to establish, military and defence industry organisations over a number of different strategic, commercial and financial initiatives and programmes.
- Delivering pivotal projects across the Middle East.

Requirements

Preferred skills

- Ability to communicate with Arabic speaking clients (Arabic not essential but would be valuable) and to act with professionalism at all times.
- Experience in delivery of defence projects and engagements as well as managing client relationships and business development.
- Proven leadership capabilities for both direct reporting personnel and wider programme teams.
- Internationally recognised qualifications relating to subject expertise.

Minimum years experience required

- Minimum of 5 years of experience working in Defence related positions.

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.

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