Independent Management Consultant - KSA (Contract)

Palladium is currently expanding its pipeline of Independent Management Consultants to potentially join our upcoming projects in Saudi Arabia.

1. Purpose of Position

As a key member of the team, Consultant develops relationships with client team members. Depending on allocations and the client needs, Consultant may be managing others on a project. They are expected to manage themselves time allocation, learning new things, maintaining project timelines and budget for areas that they control.

2. Primary responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of the Consultant are to:

-Understand client or external data and present analysis to project team

-Support senior members in clearly articulating client needs.

-Participate in designing solutions for solving client issues

-Conduct independent data gathering activities

-Design qualitative and quantitative research tools

-Analyse market and client data sets to create insight

-Craft day-to-day client team communication

-Draft client deliverables, presentation and proposal materials

3. Reporting requirements

The role reports to the Manager or above. Reporting requirements include:

-Attendance of all team meetings

-Participate in regular project status updates with the project manager on client engagements

-Regular updates with line manager

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-Timely submission of assigned reports/deliverables

-Semi-Annual updates on the status of Key Result Areas, as well as any other important areas of concern

4. Relationships

Key relationships will be both with their manager, project managers as well as the wider Consulting team

When working on a particular client project, there will be a designated project manager who the consultant will be required to liaise closely with throughout the duration of the project

5. Authority levels

The role carries a degree of autonomy with appropriate consultation. The role is required to:

-Analyze and make sound recommendations to the line manager

-Contribute to process improvement through innovative and cost-effective proposals/ideas/suggestions

-Work autonomously to identify key issues in the client's internal and external environment and apply relevant Palladium knowledge and practices to identify and develop analysis and recommendations/deliverables

-Identify opportunities to provide constructive feedback with the objective of contributing to the personal and professional development of both self and team members

6. Minimum Education and experience required

-Bachelor's degree from a leading institution

-Relevant consulting experience

-Excellent MS Office skills

-Good written and verbal business communications skills

-Familiarity with the Kaplan/Norton framework and/or other performance management methodology is highly desirable

7. Key Skills required

-Outstanding facilitation skills, memorable in-person presentation abilities

-Results driven, persistent, flexible, and persuasive

-Self-starter/pro-active, strong entrepreneurial spirit

-Willingness to travel on a weekly basis

-Demonstrate ability to design a good PowerPoint slide as well as an entire presentation

-Proficiency in written and spoken English and Arabic

8.Core competencies

-Adaptability: Supports change process, promotes change agenda, supports others to adapt, supports others in new ways of working, applies learning.

-Critical Thinking: Challenges own ideas, investigate issues, identifies trends and underlying connections, identifies and analyses relationships between situations, applies information outside the immediate.

-People and Relationships: Encourages others understand value of diversity and inclusion, understands others position and adapts personal style, encourages others to acknowledge team members contribution, encourages self-development with team members, seeks participation and contribution from direct working relationships.

-Self-development and Adaptability: Seeks and applied development opportunities relevant to team, probes understanding of feedback, evaluates quality of work, delivers on commitments outside the team, recognizes and identifies opportunities.

-Business Acumen: Align work focus with organization objectives, recognizes market impacts and business drivers, consults to understand client needs, optimizes resources, applies principles of stewardship.