Senior Manager​/Director - Business Consulting - Supply Chain - KSA

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager – Procurement to lead client engagement teams, work with a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services, and participate in business development activities on strategic and global priority accounts.

• Spend Management – cost optimization, category management, strategic sourcing
• Procurement Operating Model Transformation
• Procurement Digitalization
• Procurement Operations
• ESG

This team focuses on helping clients run their supply chains effectively in order to improve their business performance.

As a Senior Manager your key role will be to lead large transformational client engagements as well as internal projects. Drawing on your knowledge, skills and experience, you will establish valued relationships with external clients at the “C” level. You will lead large global and regional bids, proposals and thought leadership. You will lead teams at our clients, supporting them with improving their business performance.

You will be responsible for presenting executive summary findings to enact change. You will manage multiple EY colleagues across levels and client team members. You will review other’s work to ensure it is of a high quality. You will mentor others as they progress in their own career.

• Strong experience and track record of leading successful procurement transformations in industry or consulting
• Experience of directing multiple projects and providing direction to different teams
• Proven track record of business development activities
• 10+ years’ experience at a tier 1 consultancy
• Outstanding academic record to at least Batchelor degree level, Masters an advantage
• Experience and passion for one of Digital solutions and trends, operating model development, third-party spend management, ESG, or leading supply chain solutions
• Excellent communications skills including verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Entrepreneurial flare and the ability to identify business opportunities and cross sell different services and/or products
• Arabic speaking and reading an advantage but not essential

• An analytical mindset
• A change mindset
• A continuous learning mindset
• A teaming mindset
• The ability to travel across the region

• Developing people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
• Conducting performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff
• Contributing to our people initiatives that include recruiting and retaining our professionals

We offer a competitive compensation package where you will be rewarded based on your performance and recognised for the value you bring to the business. We also offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.