As a Senior Manager Consulting Rail & Road at PwC’s rapidly growing Middle East Transport & Logistics Practice, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best and brightest consultants across the industry. Regionally, the land transport sector is playing a pivotal role in both shaping and enabling ongoing national transformation programs through enhancing road and railway infrastructure, enabling efficient transport of goods and people, and attracting foreign direct investments. As part of their regional practice, you will be a member of a wider community of multi-modal experts that provide a one-stop business advisory solution to both public and private tier-1 organizations. As a Senior Manager you would combine a track record of strategy or management consulting with a proven portfolio of projects in the land transport sector, and broader transport & logistics industry knowledge, preferably in the Middle East region.

Responsibilities of A Senior Manager Consulting Rail & Road

• Lead and deliver consulting assignments. Develop content, project plans, distribute work to team members and oversee day-to-day delivery.
• Assignments are expected to be predominantly within the land transport sector, but could also include to the broader transport and logistics space.
• Perform hypothesis driven thinking. Guide the team’s analyses and push their thinking to draw meaningful insights.
• Ensure credibility of analytical approaches, methodologies and conclusions.
• Review work produced by the team to ensure highest quality levels output aligned with the scope of work, delivered on time and within budget to the expectations of the client.
• Engage client counterparts to align with them on the work plans and interim and final recommendations.
• Ensure smooth handover of project deliverables and results and effectively close out consulting assignments with the client.
• Build strong, trusted advisor relationships with your clients beyond the immediate consulting assignment. Identify and contribute to follow-on work. Maintain an emerging network of contacts and relationships inside and outside the firm’s network.
• Proactively lead the drafting of proposals and marketing efforts. Participate in proposal pitches with a focus on converting pipelines into secured mandates.
• Stay up to date on the land transport industry in the region, including  government agenda, players’ positioning and strategies, latest trends and developments.
• Develop and maintain intellectual capital and publish thought leadership on aviation to enhance our brand.
• Provide guidance and coaching to team members as needed and ensure a professional and productive team environment.
• Mentor formally and informally other members in your team/ business unit in order to foster a high performance team environment.
• Manage internal requirements for quality, compliance, policies, procedures and systems and related.

Requirements For Senior Manager Consulting Rail & Road

The eligibility requirements for role of a Senior Manager Consulting Rail & Road are as under:

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree, with Masters degree is a plus, ideally an MBA from a reputable business school.
• 8-12 years of professional work experience out of which at least 4-6 are in consulting with a leading global consulting firm. Proven portfolio of projects in the rail and roads sector, preferably in the Middle East, advising tier-1 organization.
• Experience in railway, truck, taxi, rail, metro, tolling, and / or bus operators, land logistic companies, investment funds active in this space, and / or Land Transport Authorities or governmental entities in the sector.

Desired Skills

• Key areas of functional expertise include, but are not limited to, strategy development, strategic transformations, capability led transformations, strategy implementation, corporate governance, operating models, etc.
• Strong business acumen and structured problem solving capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, validate, structure and analyze financial, operational, and market data.
• Able to work independently and effectively within a team.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to operate in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Ability and willingness for frequent travel within the GCC and Middle East.
• Proficient in written and spoken English. Arabic is a significant plus.

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