Job Description
Overview
At AtkinsRéalis is seeking an experienced Consultant in Management Consulting to join its Consulting, Strategy and Advisory team in Riyadh.
The role will support the delivery of high-impact management consulting and transformation engagements, with the Senior Consultant taking ownership of defined workstreams and translating complex organisational and operational challenges into clear, evidence-based and implementable recommendations.
The successful candidate will have experience across several areas of management consulting, including:
- Target Operating Model design and implementation;
- Organisation design;
- Governance and decision-making frameworks;
- Process assessment and re-engineering;
- Benchmarking and leading-practice assessment;
- Organisational capability and maturity assessment;
- Business and organisational transformation;
- Change management;
- Programme mobilisation and set-up;
- Programme health checks;
- Performance management and benefits realisation; and
- Transformation roadmaps and implementation planning.
The candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams alongside management consultants, strategists, programme managers, economists, financial advisors, technical specialists, engineers, planners and digital and data professionals.
The role is based in Riyadh and will support projects across KSA and the wider Middle East and Africa region. Travel may be required.
Your role
Management Consulting & Transformation
- Lead defined workstreams across strategy, transformation, operating model and organisational improvement engagements.
- Structure complex client challenges, undertake analysis and translate evidence into clear insights, options and practical recommendations.
- Support the design of Target Operating Models, organisation structures, governance frameworks and organisational capabilities.
- Undertake benchmarking, process assessment and process re-engineering to identify opportunities to improve organisational effectiveness and performance.
- Support transformation and change programmes from diagnostic and design through implementation and benefits realisation.
- Support programme mobilisation, governance, delivery planning and programme health checks where required.
Project & Workstream Delivery
- Take ownership of defined workstreams and deliverables, ensuring quality, accuracy and timely completion.
- Develop methodologies, workplans, analytical frameworks and implementation roadmaps appropriate to the assignment.
- Manage activities against agreed scope, programme and budget, identifying and escalating risks and issues where required.
- Coordinate and review inputs from Consultants, Analysts and multidisciplinary specialists.
- Prepare high-quality reports, executive presentations, business cases and other client deliverables.
Client & Stakeholder Engagement
- Build effective working relationships with client stakeholders and multidisciplinary project teams.
- Plan and facilitate interviews, workshops, meetings and working sessions.
- Present analysis, findings and recommendations clearly and confidently to senior stakeholders.
- Understand the client's strategic and organisational context and ensure recommendations are practical, implementable and outcome-focused.
Business & Practice Development
- Contribute to proposals, methodologies, scopes, resource plans and client presentations.
- Support senior colleagues in identifying and developing client opportunities.
- Contribute to Management Consulting methodologies, tools, benchmarks, case studies and thought leadership.
- Coach and support Consultants, Analysts and Graduates and contribute to knowledge sharing across the wider Advisory business.
About you
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, Finance, Management or another relevant discipline.
- MBA or relevant Master’s degree preferred, particularly in Business Administration, Strategy, Management, Organisational Development or a related field.
- Relevant professional qualifications in project/programme management, change management or process improvement are advantageous.
Professional Experience / Qualifications
- Typically 6+ years of relevant Management Consulting experience.
- Experience within a Big Four, leading management consultancy or recognised professional services organisation is highly desirable.
- Demonstrable experience leading defined consulting workstreams with a high degree of independence.
- Experience designing and implementing Target Operating Models.
- Experience supporting major organisational or enterprise-wide transformation programmes.
- Experience in organisation design, governance and organisational effectiveness.
- Experience in business process assessment, benchmarking and process re-engineering.
- Experience in organisational capability or maturity assessment.
- Experience supporting transformation and change management initiatives.
- Experience in programme mobilisation, governance, programme health checks or PMO/TMO environments is advantageous.
- Strong structured problem-solving and analytical capability.
- Demonstrable ability to use AI and digital tools to enhance consulting delivery, including research, analysis, problem solving, development of insights and preparation of client deliverables.
- Ability to identify and assess AI use cases within business and organisational transformation, considering potential value, feasibility and implementation requirements.
- Understanding of how AI can support process improvement, operating model transformation, decision-making and organisational productivity.
- Awareness of responsible AI principles, including appropriate consideration of data, governance, risk and human oversigh
- Demonstrable ability to translate complex analysis into practical recommendations and implementation actions.
- Experience preparing executive-level presentations, reports and recommendations.
- Experience planning and facilitating workshops and stakeholder interviews.
- Strong project management capability, including planning, reporting, risk management and quality management.
- Advanced capability in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
- Experience in KSA or the wider GCC is strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting government, public-sector, infrastructure, transport, utilities, real estate or other major transformation clients is advantageous.
- Arabic language capability is preferred.
Behavioral Skills
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
- Ability to move confidently from problem definition and analysis to insight, recommendation and implementation planning.
- AI-literate and digitally curious, with a proactive approach to applying emerging technologies to improve consulting delivery and client outcomes.
- Demonstrates initiative, ownership and accountability for assigned workstreams and deliverables.
- Builds credibility and effective working relationships with client stakeholders.
- Operates confidently within complex client environments.
- Excellent written communication, report-writing and presentation skills.
- Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely to senior audiences.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Sound commercial awareness and understanding of the requirements of consulting engagements.
- Ability to manage defined workstreams within agreed programmes and budgets.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet demanding deadlines.
- Comfortable working within multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
- Able to operate effectively where information, stakeholder expectations or requirements are evolving.
- Proactive and solutions-orientated, with the confidence to constructively challenge assumptions.
- Able to exercise sound professional judgement while recognising when issues require escalation.
- Provides effective coaching, guidance and quality review to junior team members.
- Produces high-quality consulting outputs with limited supervision.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Arabic language capability is advantageous.
- Willingness to travel within KSA and the wider Middle East and Africa region.
- Commitment to delivering sustainable, practical and implementable outcomes for clients.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.
This includes:
- Tax-free salary.
- Life insurance coverage.
- Medical insurance.
- Annual leave balance.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus program.
- Annual flight contribution.
- Transportation & housing allowances.
- Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.
About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
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Employee
Job Type
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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
