Who are we?

We are an International operations management consulting firm specializing in improving people and industrial safety, operational excellence and environmental sustainability across multiple industries. Our strong heritage, established reputation and deep subject matter expertise in capital-intensive sectors and hazardous environments around the world make us a recognized leader in our field. At dss+, we believe we are making a difference by protecting people and improving operations. Our focus will be on improving the working lives of every employee in the organization and on driving the transformation of the entire operational culture from the boardroom to the shopfloor. Our clients, mid-caps to large caps companies, operates in multiple industries such as utilities, renewables, food and beverage, chemicals, manufacturing…

What will we offer?

As a fast-growing business, we offer an exceptional opportunity to grow your career in consulting. If you’ve an entrepreneurial mindset and are as passionate about safety and operational excellence and sustainability as us, we promise many opportunities for development. You’ll work with industry leading experts in operations management and develop innovative solutions to meet client challenges. Additionally, as a firm that both advises and implements, you’ll be able to see the positive impacts and value that your work delivers for the client. Our unique, flexible working model allows our employees to combine a work life balance by working from home and travelling as needed.

What will you do?

As a Senior Manager, you will play a critical role in helping us achieve our vision. You will lead and deliver our client engagements; also identify, design and implement effective solutions to produce and sustain impact for our clients. You will be expected to drive the direction of the engagement, effectively manage the team and long-term relationship with clients to help them achieve their improvement goals. Beyond client project work, you will contribute to the development of new clients and markets, delivery of presentations to executives and creation of thought leadership. You must have excellent communication and client management skills to maintain positive client relations and high client satisfaction levels – and a good sense of humor. You must be a self-starter, who is able to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment and driven to produce improvement initiatives, both internally and with clients.

More specifically, you would be

• Managing the execution of complex consulting engagements to ensure the project and deliverables meet or exceed the client’s requirements and expectations and deliver superior value to clients.
• Managing and enhancing relationship with clients, to position DSS as a trusted partner and identifying and pursuing additional business opportunities.
• Working with Principal / Director in developing new business leads & opportunities to grow the business
• Mentor / coach junior colleagues to support their development within the organization.
• Play an active role in building the firm.

Requirements

Who are you?

To be successful you will have:

• Extensive experience working with a leading management consulting firm or working in the industry (e.g. oil and gas, Petrochemical, utilities, transportation and/or heavy manufacturing sectors)
• Proven experience in leading complex business/operations transformation programs characterized by a high change management component
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills with ability to extensively interact at executive level
• Strong leadership skills and proven track record in building teams
• Results-oriented approach and passion for continuous improvement
• Previous experience in operational excellence or operational risk management programs
• Project management certification (e.g. PMP) will be a plus
• BS Engineering or equivalent, MBA or MS preferred
• Fluency in both written and spoken English
• Ability to travel extensively up to 60 % of monthly time (when not travelling you will likely be working from home)
• Fluency in Arabic is a plus