Associate Director-Advisory & Risk Consulting | Risk & Resilience

Opportunity

Client delivery and technical leadership

• Lead complex engagements from scoping and mobilization through delivery, quality assurance, closure, and follow-on work.
• Advise on organizational resilience, enterprise risk, security management, business continuity, crisis management, and emergency preparedness.
• Translate recognized standards and good practice into locally relevant, practical client solutions.
• Facilitate executive interviews, workshops, simulations, and decision-making sessions with boards and senior management.
• Manage scope, quality, resourcing, budget, schedule, risk, and client expectations while remaining actively involved in delivery.

Business development and account growth

• Lead Saudi Advisory & Risk Consulting business development in partnership with regional practice leaders and in-country colleagues.
• Build trusted senior relationships and align Control Risks offerings with clients’ strategic, operational, and regulatory priorities.
• Own opportunities from qualification, solution design, teaming, and proposals through pricing, negotiation, conversion, and delivery transition.
• Develop account plans, pursue repeat and multidisciplinary work, and maintain accurate pipeline, forecast, and client activity information.
• Represent Control Risks at relevant client events, roundtables, and thought-leadership activities in the Kingdom.

Practice and people leadership

• Help establish a sustainable in-country delivery model and grow the Saudi Advisory & Risk Consulting team.
• Coach, mentor, and provide feedback to consultants, strengthening technical, consulting, and commercial capabilities.
• Plan resources across the Saudi portfolio and draw on regional and global expertise as needed.
• Capture intellectual property, embed lessons learned, and improve reuse of methods, tools, and deliverables.
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning; foster collaboration across regional and global teams.

Innovation, technology, and risk

• Advance responsible use of data, automation, and emerging technology in consulting propositions, methods, and delivery tools.
• Connect risk and resilience work with cyber, technology, intelligence, security, and other capabilities where appropriate.
• Ensure engagements comply with applicable legal, risk, contracting, information-management, and professional standards.
• Model sound commercial judgment, professional integrity, and disciplined handling of sensitive client information.

Essential experience

• Substantial consulting experience, typically 8–10 years, leading engagements in enterprise risk, security management, business continuity, crisis management, or organizational resilience.
• Demonstrated leadership of multiple complex engagements and accountability for delivery quality and commercial outcomes.
• Proven ability to originate work, grow accounts, and convert opportunities through senior relationships and proposals.
• Executive stakeholder credibility; GCC experience and a strong understanding of Saudi consulting delivery, including prior Saudi client experience.
• Experience managing and developing consultants; excellent written and spoken English and strong executive writing skills.
• Able and willing to be based permanently in Riyadh and travel within Saudi Arabia and the wider region as required.

Preferred experience and qualifications

• Fluent spoken and written Arabic is preferred.
• Experience in sectors such as government, sovereign or Vision 2030 entities, technology, entertainment, financial services, energy, infrastructure, industrials, or logistics is preferred.
• Multidisciplinary programme delivery, consulting capability building, and technology-enabled risk and resilience experience are preferred.
• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience; relevant master’s degree is advantageous.
• Recognized qualifications such as IRM, MBCI/CBCI, CBCP, or equivalent are relevant professional credentials.

Capabilities and behaviors

• Commercial and business intellect; client-centric judgment; executive presence and personal impact.
• Structured problem-solving, clear and persuasive communication, ownership, and accountability.
• Inclusive people leadership, collaboration across disciplines and geographies, adaptability, and tenacity.
• Integrity, discretion, and professionalism.

Benefits

• Compensation and benefits package is described as competitive; detailed terms are provided in the full job offer.
• Benefits include private medical insurance, an annual housing allowance, and compulsory monthly employer contributions to the DIFC Employment Workplace Saving Scheme.