Milaha - Senior Associate - Strategic Initiatives

Key responsibilities -

- Support business units and corporate departments that are undertaking prioritized improvement initiatives through Milaha's stage-gate initiative delivery process: ideation, feasibility, solution design, execution and impact assessment.

- Ideation Phase: collect details on potential initiatives from units/departments and prepare materials for leadership discussions on prioritization for the next phase under the guidance of the Senior Manager.

- Impact & Feasibility Phase: Work with the cross functional teams to gather the requested data, and conduct the assigned baseline analyses for the business cases; prepare the content/ presentations for leadership decisions.

- Solution Design & Implementation Phase: Work with the cross functional teams in developing work plans/road maps to implement the approved solutions.

- Execution & Governance Phase: Monitor status on progress of initiatives through follow-ups on the roadmap and prepare dashboards for leadership.

- P&L Impact Phase: Conduct the requested assessments to track impact against initially targeted objectives.

- Other Duties: Support the company's market intelligence activities through gathering market research and conducting macro/micro-analyses; maintain the company's internal market intelligence database tool (training will be provided); develop slides for use in presentations

Key Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree (Essential)

- 2+ years of Management Consulting is a must

- Experience working in mature markets or with blue-chip companies in emerging markets is a must

- Proficiency in MS Office Suite essential including expertise in Excel & PowerPoint

- Fluency in English (Essential) and Arabic (Desirable)

- Demonstrated data gathering/analysis skills

- Strong presentation support skills (summarizing content, developing client-ready slides, etc.)

- Excellent planning and organizational skills. Ability to work independently in a results-oriented, project-driven team environment, while prioritizing projects and delivering quality results within tight timeframes.

- Knowledge of the shipping, logistics, and energy industries is preferred