Senior Consultant - Portfolio Coordination (Operational Excellence)

About the role

EY's Supply Chain Consulting team is looking for a Senior Consultant in Portfolio Coordination for its Operational Excellence practice in Jordan. You will support a client-facing Strategic Operations Office by coordinating portfolio tasks and activities according to the agreed planning-cycle timetable, working closely with the Strategic Planning function and initiative stakeholders. The role is expected to run in a secondment-style environment with frequent travel, including extended periods at client locations.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate portfolio tasks and activities in line with the approved planning-cycle timetable and governance requirements.
• Organize inputs, meetings, reviews and approvals with the Strategic Planning function, initiative owners and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain calendars, trackers, action logs, decision logs, risk and issue registers and supporting documentation.
• Monitor deadlines, actions, dependencies and stakeholder submissions and follow up proactively.
• Prepare agendas, presentation materials, status updates, minutes and action summaries for portfolio governance forums.
• Support business planning workshops, leadership reviews and strategy execution activities.
• Identify schedule conflicts, missing inputs and coordination risks and escalate them through the right channels.
• Contribute to standardizing and improving portfolio coordination and Strategic Operations Office processes.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Strategy, Engineering, Public Administration or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience coordinating portfolio, strategy, transformation, consulting, project or planning activities.
• Demonstrated experience managing task schedules, stakeholder inputs, action tracking and planning-cycle deliverables.
• Strong communication, organization and follow-up skills, able to handle multiple priorities and fixed timetables.
• Excellent written and verbal English; Arabic is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel frequently and stay at client sites for extended periods.

Required skills

• Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook and Teams.
• Ideally: experience in utilities or other highly regulated public-sector organizations, exposure to strategy planning, transformation programs, PMO or portfolio governance, and experience in consulting or secondment-style assignments.