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
Commercially Aware: Demonstrates working knowledge of external forces impacting financial, market, economic, legal and regulatory environments and how GHD responds to them commercially.
Agile Learner: Actively learns through experimentation and experience and seeks ways to grow and to be challenged by new and novel conditions.
Client Centric: Anticipates and prioritizes client needs and takes action to provide highquality client experience.
Enabler of Self and Others: Demonstrates trust by bringing the best of self, valuing others contributions, and engendering confidence and trust with others.
GHD Values
Our values are the cornerstone of our culture and are important to the way we conduct ourselves, and our business:
Safety
We intrinsically value the safety of ourselves and others affected by our
operations and services.
Teamwork
We collaborate within our global community to help and support each other to
achieve client, personal and company goals.
Respect
We value all individuals and nurture both internal and external relationships
through listening and understanding.
Integrity
We embrace honesty and trustworthiness through professional and ethical
behaviour with our clients, communities and each other.
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About Us:
Why GHD?
Being the best we can be is in our culture. We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.
Our commitment to you
Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.
Who we are
We are committed to solving the world\'s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly \'One GHD\' across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.
About the Team:
GHD Advisory
Our Advisory practice supports clients throughout their business lifecycle from capital deployment, investment optimisation and value preservation through to resilience and liability transformation. We create value and a competitive edge for our client\'s businesses by delivering commercially driven outcomes.