Middle East IT Service Senior Manager

About This Role

Locations: Dubai | Riyadh

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

The Middle East IT Service Manager is the face of Tech@BCG in a key market for BCG. Spanning Dubai, Riyadh, Doha, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait, this role is not a back-office function: it is the primary connection between a demanding regional business and the global IT organisation. Local business leadership knows this person by name, calls them first, and relies on them to make technology work.

The role sits at the intersection of the local business and the IT function. It owns regional IT service delivery end to end, manages senior stakeholder relationships, feeds office demand and business feedback into the IT organisation, and ensures that what is built and delivered globally actually works for the Middle East. The person in this role represents the business to IT, and IT to the business.

Day-to-day, that means running a tight operation, governing vendors and contracts with discipline, driving a sustained shift towards automation, AI-enabled support, and always knowing what the numbers are telling you. It requires someone equally comfortable in a service review and a conversation with a Managing Director, who understands that trust with the business is the foundation everything else is built on.

Beyond operations, this role demands a genuine people leader. Someone who invests in their team, listens before they act, and creates an environment where people do their best work. Within the broader EMESA IT Service community, this person is a collaborative and engaged peer: sharing what works, supporting colleagues across other regions, and contributing to a function that is stronger because its leaders work well together. If you lead with integrity, bring others with you, and take the success of the team as seriously as your own, this role is for you.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Stakeholder Relationships & Business Partnering

• Serve as the primary point of contact for local business leadership across all Middle East offices 2014 the face of Tech@BCG in the region
• Actively manage senior stakeholder relationships, building trust with office leadership and ensuring IT is seen as a partner, not a utility
• Capture, consolidate, and feed local business demand and feedback into the global IT organisation and translating office needs into inputs the IT function can act on
• Own the senior escalation path for critical incidents and high-impact service events, and maintain playbooks for executive support and key office moments

2. Capacity & Financial Management

• Ensure regional capacity is managed in line with global and functional targets, escalating deviations and translating business demand into resourcing inputs for the IT organisation
• Build cost-to-serve visibility at office level to support data-led conversations with both local leadership and global IT
• Challenge and reduce local service deviations where demand doesn’t justify them
• Drive the shift from human-touch support to automation and self-service. This is a direction of travel, not a one-off project

3. Automation & AI-Enabled Support

• Set and own targets for no-contact and low-contact resolution rates across the region
• Build out self-service capabilities for high-frequency, routine requests: if a human is handling it repeatedly, it should be automated
• Embed AI-assisted triage and resolution tooling into local support workflows
• Maintain a live automation backlog and convert repeat demand into scalable workflows systematically
• Improve ticket and knowledge quality to cut engineering escalations and break the cycle of recurring incidents

4. Security, Compliance & Resilience

• Ensure secure fulfilment patterns are embedded in all service workflows, not treated as a separate workstream
• Enforce compliance with device management, access control, and privileged support standards
• Minimise operational risk through disciplined change management and resilience practices
• Partner closely with ISRM: regional security posture is a shared responsibility and I expect you to own your side of it

WHO I’M LOOKING FOR

The profile that works in this role is someone who is equally at home in a detailed ops review and a conversation with a Managing Director. You don’t need to be told to check the numbers. You already have. You hold vendors accountable without drama. You know when to escalate and when to solve it yourself.

More specifically, you bring:

• A track record of leading multi-country or multi-site IT service operations, at pace and under pressure
• The ability to hold cost discipline and premium experience protection in tension, without sacrificing either
• Demonstrated success driving automation adoption and self-service at scale, not just piloting it
• Strong vendor governance instincts: you set clear expectations, track them rigorously, and act when they are missed
• A data-first approach: you use metrics to manage and decide, not just to report upwards
• The credibility and confidence to challenge senior office leadership when the service or the data calls for it
• Composure and adaptability in environments where priorities shift and the bar is always high

What You'll Bring

• 8–12+ years in IT Service Management, Digital Workplace, or End-User Computing leadership
• Proven experience running multi-site or regional service delivery across geographically dispersed teams
• Background in service transformation or operating model redesign : you have changed how a function works, not just run it
• Hands-on familiarity with AI-enabled / automated support tooling and modern ESM platforms
• Strong grounding in financial management, capacity planning, and cost-to-serve modelling
• Vendor management and contract governance experience in a contracted or hybrid delivery model
• Fluent English; Arabic proficiency is a genuine advantage in this region
• Readiness to travel occasionally across Middle East office locations : presence matters here

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.