Job Description

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 60+ cities across nearly 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation -

Oliver Wyman is looking for an experienced bilingual (Arabic and English) Executive Administrative Assistant (EA) in Riyadh to provide administrative support to up to 3 of our Partners.

Why Oliver Wyman?

Working as part of our global, entrepreneurial company, you'll do meaningful work from day one. We're looking for individuals who challenge the norm, and constantly strive to build something new for the firm and the world around us. At Oliver Wyman, there's no "one size fits all" - we hire exceptional people and help them thrive through a built-in support network, flexible career paths, and no artificial barriers to advancement.

We have a collaborative, supportive, flexible and impactful team environment - we want you to bring your authentic self and enjoy working alongside diverse and down-to-earth colleagues who do serious work, but don't take themselves too seriously.

At Oliver Wyman we believe and actively support work/life balance and have a culture that encourages openness, authenticity, flexibility and well-being, as well as being socially impactful - for more details, please visit our website:

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join Oliver Wyman as an Executive Assistant in our Riyadh office, supporting between 1 and 3 of our Partners - we are looking for an experienced Executive Administrative Assistant with fluent Arabic and English

Responsibilities

As Executive Administrative Assistant you will provide bilingual (Arabic and English) executive level administrative support between 1-3 of our Partners. You will be responsible for supporting Partners on all aspects of daily administration, including diary management, scheduling internal and external meetings, conference calls, video conferences and making international travel and accommodation arrangements.

Executive Administrative Assistants at Oliver Wyman also play a pivotal role in supporting Partners with client development and marketing activities, including RFPs and contract negotiations. You will become familiar with their clients and their sales goals, Practice themes and Oliver Wyman 'products', enabling you to confidently arrange client meetings, to maintain the list of client contacts and business activities in the CRM database and to also track and maintain sales activity/pipeline.

The Partners you support will also entrust you to proactively identify clients that have not been contacted or met with recently and to optimize client meetings whilst travelling in another international locations, as well as to customize client mailings and to prepare client proposals.

This role is a permanent, full-time role - you will work: 9am-6pm with additional hours as needed.

Who are we looking for?

You will be an experienced Executive Assistant / Personal Assistant, with at least 3 years' experience of supporting multiple senior stakeholders

You will have gained your Executive Assistant / Personal Assistant experience from within a management consultancy, financial services or professional services/corporate organization - experience of working for a Global firm will be advantageous

Experience of using a CRM system (Microsoft Dynamics, in particular) is desirable

Fluent English and Arabic language skills are essential

In addition:

You will have a strong service-focus, be able to work within a fast-paced environment and be dedicated to meeting the expectations of all staff through securing effective relationships with clients and executing deliverables to the highest standards

You will be skilled in using Excel and PowerPoint and experience of using SharePoint and Google Drive will be a definite advantage

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Executive Administrative Assistant who is looking for their next career move and who is keen to add to the culture of our Riyadh office.

At Oliver Wyman we do not unlawfully discriminate against anyone and we are particularly mindful of the requirements to prohibit discrimination based on nine protected characteristics namely: age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity. Additionally, we pay close attention to work/life balance and family life, military status and personality types.

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