# Associate Director-Advisory & Risk Consulting | Risk & Resilience

**Company**: Control Risks
**Location**: Riyadh, Riyadh Province
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Control Risks is strengthening its Advisory & Risk Consulting presence in Saudi Arabia and seeks a senior consulting leader who can combine high-quality client delivery with business development, key account leadership, and practice building.

The Associate Director will be the in-country senior lead for risk and resilience consulting work and an important bridge between Saudi clients, the Middle East and EMEA team, and the wider global network.

**Role Purpose** Lead the origination, sale, and delivery of Advisory & Risk Consulting engagements in Saudi Arabia, with primary responsibility for enterprise risk management, business continuity, crisis management, and organisational resilience.

**Client Delivery and Technical Leadership**

- Lead complex consulting engagements from scoping and mobilisation through delivery, quality assurance, closure, and follow-on work.

- Act as engagement lead and senior client adviser across organisational resilience, including enterprise risk management, security management, business continuity, crisis management, and emergency preparedness.

- Translate recognised standards and good practice into pragmatic, locally relevant solutions.

- Facilitate executive interviews, workshops, simulations, and decision-making sessions with boards, C-suite leaders, and senior management.

**Business Development and Account Growth**

- Lead business development for Advisory & Risk Consulting in Saudi Arabia.

- Build trusted relationships with senior decision-makers and position Control Risks around the client’s strategic, operational, and regulatory priorities.

- Own opportunities end-to-end: qualification, solution design, teaming, proposal development, pricing, negotiation, conversion, and transition into delivery.

**Practice Building and People Leadership**

- Help establish a sustainable in-country delivery model and contribute to the growth of the Saudi Advisory & Risk Consulting team.

- Coach, mentor, and provide real-time feedback to consultants.

- Plan resource requirements across the Saudi portfolio and draw effectively on regional and global expertise when specialist support is required.

**Innovation, Technology, and Risk Management**

- Advance the responsible use of data, automation, and emerging technology in consulting propositions, methods, and delivery toolkits.

- Identify opportunities to connect risk and resilience work with cyber, technology, intelligence, security, and other Control Risks capabilities.

**Requirements**

- A strong track record in a consulting environment, with substantial experience, typically 8-10 years, leading enterprise risk, security management, business continuity, crisis management, or organisational resilience engagements.

- Demonstrated experience leading multiple complex client engagements and being accountable for delivery quality and commercial outcomes.

- Proven ability to originate work, grow accounts, and convert opportunities through trusted senior relationships and compelling proposals.

- Credibility with executive and senior management stakeholders.

- GCC experience and a strong understanding of how to deliver consulting work in Saudi Arabia.

- Experience managing, coaching, and developing consultants in a high-performance, collaborative environment.

- Excellent written and spoken English.

- Willingness and ability to be based permanently in Riyadh and travel within the Kingdom and wider region as required.

**Benefits**

- Competitively positioned compensation and benefits package.

- Private medical insurance.

- Annual Housing Allowance.

- Compulsory monthly employer contributions to the DIFC Employment Workplace Saving Scheme.

## Skills

### Required
- enterprise risk management
- security management
- business continuity
- crisis management
- organisational resilience
- client delivery
- technical leadership
- business development
- account growth
- people leadership

### Nice to have
- Arabic
- experience in one or more priority sectors
- experience delivering multidisciplinary programmes
- familiarity with technology-enabled risk and resilience solutions

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