Senior Consultant – Portfolio Planning – Operational Excellence

About the role

As part of EY’s Business Consulting team, you will support a client‑facing Strategic Operations Office in planning and coordinating enterprise portfolio activities and strategy execution. The role operates in a secondment‑style environment and requires frequent travel, including extended periods at client locations.

Key responsibilities

• Support the end‑to‑end portfolio planning cycle, from preparation to finalization of outputs.
• Plan and facilitate business planning workshops, working sessions, and alignment meetings with internal stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Coordinate the development and periodic update of business plans, strategic priorities, initiatives, milestones, dependencies, and performance measures.
• Translate enterprise strategy into structured portfolio plans, implementation roadmaps, and practical execution activities.
• Assist initiative owners in defining objectives, deliverables, timelines, KPIs, resource needs, risks, and interdependencies.
• Analyze portfolio information and prepare clear planning insights, decision papers, status reports, dashboards, and leadership presentations.
• Monitor alignment between strategic priorities, business plans, and portfolio execution, escalating gaps where appropriate.
• Maintain planning templates, calendars, governance artefacts, and consolidated portfolio records.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Strategy, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Public Administration, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in portfolio planning, enterprise strategy planning and execution, transformation, consulting, or business planning.
• Hands‑on experience supporting planning cycles, business planning workshops, stakeholder engagement, and updating business plans.
• Strong analytical and data‑management capability with ability to structure complex information.
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently and remain at client locations for extended periods.
• Preferable experience in utilities or other highly regulated public‑sector organizations.
• Arabic language capability is a plus.

Required skills

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint