Consulting - Government - Tourism & Hospitality - Senior Associate / Manager (UAE)

Business Unit Overview 

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Government and Public Sector Business Unit and its Tourism Consulting team, where you will play a key role in developing and delivering strategy based projects, to clients in the Government and Public Sector in the Middle East. We focus on helping solve client problems by offering both strategic and operational expertise. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, always ensuring that we are able to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face. You will be exposed to the PwC proprietary methodologies and tools built from experiences of numerous prior engagements and leading practices, to enable you to efficiently and effectively deliver to our clients in a timely and reliable manner.

Responsibilities:
As a Senior Associate / Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Help lead Strategy and Transformation Management projects within the Tourism and Hospitality sector.
• Continuously expand on knowledge of the Middle East business environment and work with colleagues in all Middle Eastern offices on client work and internal initiatives as well as with international teams where appropriate.
• Manage strategy development and execution, as well as managing national transformation agenda. 
• Help in leading and delivering large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative solutions for Public Sector entities, helping them restructure their organizational structures, and service delivery models.
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables, effectively manage the functional and technical team, support functional tracks of the transformation and relationships to ensure exceptional performance.  
• Manage and participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities.

Qualifications/Educational background

• Masters or MBA - Hospitality 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality 

Years of Exp

• Minimum 3-8 years of experience, 2 of which are in a Consulting firm. 

Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) in English. Arabic is preferable but not mandatory. 
• Proven work experience with a strategy/consulting firm in real estate, tourism, or hospitality.
• Very strong consulting skills required. 
• Exposure to working in the KSA market is an added advantage
• Proven IT skills in the Advance Excel, Word, PowerPoint and G-Suite.
• The ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East.
• Proven leadership skills, with strong team-oriented interpersonal skills.
• Experience dealing with large, complex portfolios and organizations.