Consulting - Culture & Creative Industries - Senior Manager / Director (KSA)

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a high growth Consulting team, where you will play a key role in developing and delivering strategy and operations projects, to clients in the Government and Public Sector specializing in Culture and Creative Industries sector.

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 part of PwC's Government and Public Sector Consulting team, interacting with industry professionals and experts who will help you build and deploy the strong project management skills required to manage technical and large-scale nationwide transformation initiatives. You will be exposed to the PwC proprietary methodologies and tools built from experiences from numerous prior engagements and leading practices, to enable you to efficiently and effectively deliver to our clients in a timely and reliable manner.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage strategy projects that deliver actionable recommendations including project planning, leading project analysis, and supporting successful implementation
• Lead on project delivery (or a workstream within a larger programme of work) with accountability for management of the project team.
• Establish and foster relationships with clients and delivery partners
• Manage client stakeholder relationships to ensure buy-in to an agreed solution.
• Manage strategy design and execution, operations work and advise team members using your experience in the culture and heritage sector.
• Work using expertise to enhance and develop leads for the Culture and Creative Industries sector.
• Manage projects and teams to bring insight using their own experience with Government entities or international NGOs.
• Lead internal business development and practice improvement initiatives such as bids, proposals, capability development by responding to client RfPs and help positioning PwC as a go to firm in the Culture and Creative Industries sector
• Establish a network of expertise to cover the overall Culture and Creative Industries sector and manage relationships to support in business development and project delivery.

Requirements

• Strong background and experience in Culture and Creative Industries sector and strategy design from Global Cultural institutions/ Strategy firms
• Experience managing projects and leading workstreams in the culture and creative industries sector to include strategy development, operating model design , policies and procedures design, and execution roadmaps
• Knowledge and application of UNESCO frameworks and standards in the Culture and Creative Industries sector
• Experience of developing and maintaining client and stakeholder relationships
• Ability to engage communicate with stakeholders at all levels where required
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) in English. Arabic is plus (both spoken and written).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant major with a preference for a Masters degree and industry certification
• 8 to 15 years of experience in the Culture and Creative Industries sector with Consulting as an asset.
• Experience in the Middle East region is an asset.
• Proven IT skills in the Advance Excel, Word, PowerPoint and G-Suite.
• The ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East.