Strategic Advisory Consultant - Special Projects

Job description / Role

This role serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, ensuring all incoming initiatives and strategic projects align with the organisation's overarching vision and priorities. The Consultant plays a critical role in shaping executive decision-making through insight-driven analysis, structured coordination, and high-level advisory support.

Client Details

This is a government organisation exploring a broad range of new strategic initiatives for Abu Dhabi to create a lasting impact.

Description

* Conduct strategic assessments of initiatives and proposals submitted to leadership, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and national vision.
* Provide high-level advisory support to senior executives on priority initiatives, policy decisions, and transformation agendas.
* Lead the development of briefing materials, strategic recommendations, and insight reports for executive leadership.
* Coordinate cross-functional input to ensure leadership receives well-rounded, actionable information for decision-making.
* Track the progress of special initiatives, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and expected impact are monitored and reported.
* Collaborate with internal departments and external partners to translate leadership directives into practical execution plans.

Job Offer

* Attractive compensation package
* Opportunity to work closely with influential leadership in an impactful role

* An undergraduate degree from a top-tier university. A master's degree is highly preferred.
* 8 - 10 years experience in strategy consulting/strategic advisory/special projects from a global consulting firm or a mix of consulting and industry experience.
* Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills; confident in executive-facing settings.
* Ability to synthesise and translate leadership vision into actionable plans.
* Highly adaptable; comfortable working across functions and teams.
* Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills.
* Presentable, articulate, and capable of handling fast-paced, high-impact environments.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.