Senior Consultant - Programme Advisory

Overview

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on execution strategies, roadmaps, and delivery models.
• Lead programme governance, investment readiness, and strategic alignment assessments.
• Shape portfolios and programmes with clear performance targets and delivery metrics.
• Oversee set-up and performance of complex programmes from inception to implementation.
• Navigate risks, assess delivery options, and improve stakeholder coordination.
• Support project teams in aligning time, scope, and cost for optimal outcomes.
• Provide insights on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models, integrating sustainability, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Guide complex multi-stakeholder projects with clear, strategic direction.
• Benchmark delivery models against global best practice
• Develop realistic, risk-informed timelines, budgets, and implementation plans.
• Your skills and experience
• 5+ years of experience in management consulting, programme advisory, or delivery-focused roles.
• Exposure to high-performing consultancy environments (e.g. advisory divisions within major international firms).
• A track record of delivering strategic advice and driving execution on complex, multi-stakeholder programmes.
• Familiarity with governance, organisational design, risk and stakeholder management.
• Background in infrastructure, engineering, or public/private sector development preferred.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Degree in Engineering, Business, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
• Must be a Saudi National
• What we offer you
• Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Attractive salary and benefits package
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
• **At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.** **Apply today and be a part of our legacy.**
• A place for everyone
• Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance.
• We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
• Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us.
• Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
• We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry.
• We have much to learn from one another.
• Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
• Please let us know if there are any adjustments, we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you.
• Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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