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.