Praxis Global Alliance Dubai Jobs Careers 2023 : Manager Vacancy in Dubai UAE

Financial Investor Group (FIG) offers pre-deal support, due diligences and post-acquisition value creation.
Business Enablement and Transformation (BET) for practitioner-led strategy and performance improvement business advisory and consulting.
PraxDigital™ delivers data engineering and analytics, AI, OpenData, and visualization solutions to clients across verticals.
In a dynamic and rapidly evolving business landscape, Praxis Global Alliance is a global consulting leader with a strong presence in fast-growing economies. We partner with pubic sector and private sector clients at all levels, from top executives to front-line teams, to drive end-to-end business transformation, maximize revenue, and foster organizational growth.

Our reputation as a global consulting challenger is built on our commitment to delivering exceptional advisory services and maintaining a reputation for excellence. We’ve experienced rapid growth by focusing on emerging industries and high-growth sectors, with a vision to lead in new-age industries and untapped verticals.

Our client-centric approach encompasses a comprehensive understanding of our client’s business, practical recommendations, practitioner-led expertise, and unbiased data-driven analysis to tackle complex challenges.

Our team comprises top-tier talent, making us one of the largest and most respected consulting firms. Joining our Middle East practice offers the opportunity to collaborate with leading businesses, working closely with their senior leadership teams and executives to address intricate challenges and seize strategic opportunities. We serve a diverse client base in ME and excel at understanding their unique strategic and operational challenges while adapting to evolving ecosystem in the region. As a member of our team, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling growth and enhancing the performance of both public and private sector organizations. Our focus encompasses improving operations, cost management, aligning people, processes, and technology initiatives, and supporting business expansion (organic and inorganic) to maintain and strengthen their competitive edge. We also conduct comprehensive market assessments to address our client’s current and future challenges.

Location: Dubai, UAE

About the role:

As a Manager / Senior Manager, you assume a great deal of responsibility to manage the entire analytical process, become an expert on the client’s issues and industry, and recommend solutions that make a real impact. Managers / Senior Managers run one to three projects end to end, have full ownership of the deliverables, and assume leadership roles on their team – as such, your team’s successes also enhance your own personal results story.

Exposed to more complex client interactions, managers / senior managers play a pivotal and significant role in influencing senior-level thinking and moving clients to action. You not only provide answers to questions and detail their strategic implications, but you are also encouraged to support our culture of giving back by motivating your colleagues and the firm at large to apply their talents to support a particular social cause.

As a Manager / Senior Manager, you will also be engaging in moderate business development activities and client relationship management along with overseeing high-quality delivery of projects up to and above client expectations.

The consulting position is in the Praxis BET and FIG business units
Manage scope and delivery of projects along with end-to-end client process management
Lead and deliver consulting assignments – develop content, and project plans, distribute work to team members, and oversee day-to-day delivery
Perform hypothesis-driven thinking, guide the team’s analyses and push their thinking to draw meaningful insights, and ensure credibility of analytical approaches, methodologies, and conclusions
Review work produced by the team to ensure the highest quality levels of output aligned with the scope of work, delivered on time and within budget to the expectations of the client
Lead and deliver high-quality client presentations on projects
Ensure smooth handover of project deliverables and results and effectively close out consulting assignments (including interim and final deliverables/ outputs) with the client
Build strong, trusted advisor relationships with your clients beyond the immediate consulting assignment and identify and contribute to follow-on work and maintain an emerging network of contacts and relationships inside and outside the firm’s network
Tag team with Praxis partners to bring relevant expertise into the delivery
Proactively lead the drafting of proposals and marketing efforts and participate in proposal pitches with a focus on converting pipelines into secured mandates
Develop and maintain intellectual capital and publish thought leadership on focus sectors to enhance our brand
Provide guidance and coaching to team members as needed and ensure a professional and productive team environment
Mentor (formally and informally) other members in your team/ business unit in order to foster a high-performance team environment
Manage internal requirements for quality, compliance, policies, procedures, and systems and related
Play an active part in recruitment and build project delivery teams in your department
Competencies and skills:

Minimum 4 years of management consulting experience or equivalent at a reputed consulting firm with a proven track record in leading a team of at a team of at least three consulting team members on client engagements
Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) in English. Arabic is preferable but not mandatory
Experience in the Middle East region is considered an asset, with a preference for candidates who possess knowledge of the GCC market
Desired areas of functional expertise encompass, but are not limited to, strategy development, strategic transformations, capability-led transformations, strategy implementation, corporate governance, operating models, commercial due diligence, operational due diligence, carveouts, post-merger integration, and more
Strong financial, analytical and problem-solving skill with ability to frame a problem, define an approach to solving it using the consulting toolkit, and work planning for the solution delivery
Coach and build skills in delivery teams and be a role model for future managers
Taking full ownership of project delivery through high-impact teams is a crucial part of this role.
Strong ability to research, analyse and communicate key commercial and operational value drivers
Excellent communication skills and client management skills
Ability to understand the client’s needs and develop trusted relationships
Comprehensive understanding of the management consulting toolkit and the ability to identify offerings and horizontal practices that will drive commercial opportunities with clients is required.
Should have the experience and capability to create compelling project proposals tailored to specific client needs
Should also be able to lead and oversee project delivery teams and have existing relationships within the domain of interest with senior client prospects
This role requires frequent travel within the GCC and Middle East, so candidates should be both able and willing to do so
Educational and other requirements:

Consistent track record of academic excellence
Demonstration of leadership in your educational and professional career
High resilience, energy, and drive with the ability to rally resources and maintain momentum with focus on project delivery
Graduate degree with strong academic performance
While an MBA or Master in Management (from a top-tier. Ivy League institution)/ CA/ CFA is advantageous, it’s not mandator
Minimum 4-8 years of professional work experience, with at least 4-6 years in consulting