Strategic Portfolio Management - Senior Associate

Job description / Role

IFS - Corporate Support - Strategic Portfolio Management Senior Associate - Dubai

Line of Service
Internal Firm Services

Specialism
IFS - Internal Firm Services - Other

Management Level
Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary:
A career within Corporate and Business Strategy services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients solve their toughest problems and seize essential advantages by defining and evaluating strategies of all types. We analyse business and market trends to explore new approaches that help our clients make tough choices and surpass the competition. At both the business unit and corporate level, we help organisations with organic enterprise growth, pricing and profitability, shareholder value, and sustainable corporate strategies.

Strategic Portfolio Management:
- Working closely with functional leads in Internal Firm Services (IFS) and senior management in our Lines of Business to support them in meeting milestones.
- Managing the portfolio of strategic initiatives across IFS and liaise with the various functions for follow up.
- Liaising with the Global teams to capture initiatives happening across the network and identify opportunities for collaboration and implementation in the ME.
- Developing ways for monitoring and reporting progress against strategic objectives on the portfolio to leadership and other stakeholders.
- Supporting the team in driving transformation projects across IFS; this includes supporting the project lead in conducting workshops and design thinking sessions, collecting and analysing data, presenting outcome to leadership, and other related activities.

In addition to the above, you will be expected to support with Strategy Development and Vision Realisation through the following:
- Supporting the team in designing and facilitating strategy development sessions across the business.
- Planning strategic events such as strategy day and Wider Leadership Team events; this includes coordinating with the various parties involved as well as developing the content and material for these sessions.
- Supporting the team in the delivery of projects to support strategy implementation.
- Performing in-depth strategic analysis, developing recommendations and communicating as a well-structured proposal.

Requirements

Attributes Essential:
- Experience in managing complex projects throughout the entire lifecycle, while interfacing with multi-geography and multi-business unit teams.
- Self starter and proactive - able to work autonomously.
- Collaborative and able to bring together multiple stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills, data orientated.
- Critical thinker, able to focus on "big picture" while dealing with tactical details.
- Strong understanding of change management.
- Flexible approach to working - results driven and responsive.
- Experience with project management tools e.g. MS Project, Smartsheets.

Preferred:
- Strong skills in PowerBI and Alteryx.
- Certified by an accredited project management body. Subject matter expert in project methodologies and tools.

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.