Associate Director-Advisory & Risk Consulting | Risk & Resilience

Opportunity and purpose

Client delivery and technical leadership

• Lead complex engagements from scoping and mobilisation through delivery, quality assurance, closure, and follow-on work.
• Advise on organisational resilience, enterprise risk management, security management, business continuity, crisis management, and emergency preparedness.
• Translate recognised standards and good practice into pragmatic solutions suited to client operating environments.
• Facilitate executive interviews, workshops, simulations, and decision-making sessions with boards and senior leaders.
• Manage scope, quality, resources, budget, schedule, risk, and client expectations while remaining actively involved in delivery.

Business development and account growth

• Lead Saudi business development in collaboration with regional practice leadership, local colleagues, and other business lines.
• Build senior client relationships and align the firm’s services with clients’ strategic, operational, and regulatory priorities.
• Own opportunities from qualification and solution design through teaming, proposals, pricing, negotiation, conversion, and delivery transition.
• Develop priority-client account plans and identify repeat, programme-based, and multidisciplinary work.
• Maintain pipeline, forecast, and client activity information and represent the firm at relevant events and roundtables.

Practice building and leadership

• Help establish a sustainable Saudi delivery model and grow the local Advisory & Risk Consulting team.
• Coach, mentor, and develop consultants’ technical capability, consulting skills, and commercial judgement.
• Plan portfolio resourcing and draw on regional and global expertise when needed.
• Protect intellectual property, capture lessons learned, and improve reusable methods, tools, and deliverables.
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning; promote collaboration across teams.

Innovation and risk management

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

Essential experience

• Typically 8–10 years of substantial consulting experience leading work in enterprise risk, security management, business continuity, crisis management, or organisational resilience.
• Experience leading complex engagements and accountability for delivery quality and commercial outcomes.
• Proven ability to originate work, grow accounts, and convert opportunities through senior relationships and compelling proposals.
• Executive stakeholder credibility and ability to influence and challenge constructively.
• GCC experience and understanding of Saudi consulting delivery; prior work with Saudi clients is essential.
• Experience managing, coaching, and developing consultants.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to produce concise executive materials.
• Ability to be based permanently in Riyadh and travel in the Kingdom and wider region as required.

Preferred experience and qualifications

• Arabic fluency is preferred; Saudi nationals are strongly encouraged to apply, with preference potentially given under applicable localisation requirements and hiring laws.
• Sector experience in government, Vision 2030 entities, technology, entertainment, financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, industrials, or logistics is preferred.
• Multidisciplinary programme delivery, consulting capability building, and familiarity with technology-enabled risk solutions, analytics, or responsible AI are preferred.
• A relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience is required.
• A recognised qualification in risk, security management, business continuity, crisis management, or a related field, such as IRM, MBCI/CBCI, or CBCP, is sought; a relevant postgraduate qualification is advantageous.

Benefits

• The employer offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package.
• Benefits include private medical insurance, an annual housing allowance, and monthly employer contributions to the DIFC Employment Workplace Saving Scheme.