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**Job Title: Senior Manager / Director - Business Consulting - Supply Chain - KSA** Lead high-profile procurement transformations, drive change at the 'C' level, and manage global/multiple client teams. Key responsibilities include leading large transformational client engagements and internal projects, providing 'C'-level client management, winning bids and proposals, and presenting executive summaries to enact change. **Role Requirements:** - Strong experience leading successful procurement transformations in industry or consulting - 10+ years' experience at a tier 1 consultancy - Proven track record of business development activities - Entrepreneurial flare and ability to cross-sell services/products - Excellent communications, teamwork, and change management skills - Strong leadership, people development, and coaching skills - Master's degree (advantage); Bachelor's degree minimum **Preferred Skills:** - Arabic speaking, reading (advantage but not essential) - Experience in digital solutions, operating model development, spend management, ESG, or supply chain solutions - Analytical, change, continuous learning, and teaming mindset **About EY:** - Global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services - Committed to hiring and developing passionate people to be the best employer by 2020 - Offers competitive compensation, performance rewards, and professional development opportunities
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Riyadh
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
The opportunity
We currently are 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.
Our Supply Chain & Operations Procurement team members provide insights into Procurement transformation covering:
- 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
Your key responsibilities
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 others work to ensure it is of a high quality. You will mentor others as they progress in their own career.
Skills and attributes for success
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- 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
Ideally, youll also have:
- An analytical mindset
- A change mindset
- A continuous learning mindset
- A teaming mindset
- The ability to travel across the region
What we look for
Alongside your comprehensive and proven technical expertise you will also be a born leader with a passion for:
- 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
What working at EY offers
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 thats right for you
About EY
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, were using the finance products, expertise and systems weve 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, well make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
Build your legacy with us.
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