Join an established and growing industry leader committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges through innovative people movement insights and advice.

Established in 1928, GHD remains wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals connected by over 200 offices, across five continents.

Leading through engineering, architectural skills and experience, our forward-looking approaches connect and sustain communities around the world. Together with our partners, we provide insights and solutions that address complex problems, provide societal outcomes, and benefit our communities.

Our team is passionate about helping clients solve complex infrastructure, development and movement challenges facing our communities. Taking a One GHD approach, we work together to deliver innovative solutions across the lifecycle of all asset classes.

Our growth will be driven by our desire to undertake purposeful work in the areas of sustainable investment and urban development, unlocking efficiencies in our built environment, and opportunities from the infrastructure value chain. Our innovative approaches to problem solving defines our culture and is fostered by our diverse backgrounds, skillsets and ways of thinking, providing value to asset owners, governments, and industry bodies.

We are proud to be global. Our diversity of knowledge and perspective makes us stronger, smarter, and more understanding of the complex issues confronting our clients. As the world becomes more connected, our team will leverage its global experience to deliver socially impactful solutions.

About the role

This role will focus on driving bottom line impact covering suppliers, production, physical logistics, and customers. You will work on projects to help clients overcome typical supply chain challenges and integrate solutions across the organization, supplementing our client experience through targeted research programs focused on what really drives their supply chain performance.

Your role will require you to work with colleagues across GHD and clients to build the strategies, capabilities, systems and processes needed to deliver bottom line results and ensure those results are sustained. You will develop trust-based relationships with clients and be seen as a specialist in implementation and delivering results. Closely cooperating with other GHD enterprise, Advisory Business Activity Leaders, and the broader GHD business including, Marketing Leaders and Regional Technical Leaders, this role is a key element of our growth strategy.

The position is offered as part of the EMEA GHD Advisory team and may reside within any of our UAE offices. We also offer flexible working arrangements and will consider candidates looking for both a full-time and part-time positions.

Core responsibilities

• To deliver GHD Advisory’s services to our clients pertaining to your areas of expertise or further afield as opportunities dictate.
• Assists and contributes to securing a pipeline of work for the Group in line with that group’s business plan, under the direction of Team Leaders, Executive Advisors or the Business Group Leader.
• Leveraging internal and external relationships and contributing to business development activities within the team.
• Provide direction and coaching to develop Logistics and Supply Chain team members and contribute to the overall functioning of the Business Group.
• Technical leadership on projects as required and direction and input on tenders/bids or proactive client proposals.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships to support the growth of logistics and supply chain opportunities throughout the region and support the delivery of new and existing client opportunities.
• Support the GHD logistics and supply chain practice so that we meet GHD’s overall objectives in terms of financial performance, risk management and strategic development having regard to GHD’s core values.

Skills, experience and qualifications

• Experience in one or more of the following areas: design and implementation of logistics strategy, port and freight master planning, intermodal transport design and optimization, supply chain planning and management processes, supply chain modelling and optimization, procurement maturity assessment, supply chain digitization and supply chain de-carbonization.
• Preferably with 5+ years of consultancy experience
• Advanced graduate degree and excellent academic record required (e.g., MBA, PhD, etc.)
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Strong record of leadership in an academic, professional, or extracurricular setting
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in Arabic and English
• Strong project management skills - PMP certification preferred
• Strong analytical and market research skills
• Prior experience working in GCC / Middle East
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent detailed oriented technical report writing skills
• Ability to travel as required preferred

Interested? Apply now.