مستشار أول – تخطيط المحفظة – التميز التشغيلي – الأردن (Senior Consultant – Portfolio Planning – Operational Excellence -Jordan)

Job Summary

The Senior Consultant will support EY’s Business Consulting team by assisting a client-facing Strategic Operations Office in managing enterprise portfolio activities and strategy execution. The role involves coordinating portfolio planning cycles, facilitating workshops, engaging stakeholders, and translating strategy into actionable plans, with frequent travel to client sites.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire portfolio planning cycle including preparation, scheduling, stakeholder coordination, consolidation, review, and finalization of outputs.
• Organize and lead business planning workshops, working sessions, and alignment meetings with internal stakeholders and leadership.
• Coordinate the creation and updates of business plans, strategic priorities, initiatives, milestones, dependencies, and performance metrics.
• Convert enterprise strategy into structured portfolio plans, roadmaps, and executable activities.
• Assist initiative owners in defining objectives, deliverables, timelines, KPIs, resources, risks, and dependencies.
• Analyze portfolio data and produce planning insights, decision documents, status reports, dashboards, and presentations for leadership.
• Track alignment between strategic priorities, business plans, and portfolio execution, escalating any gaps or inconsistencies.
• Maintain planning templates, calendars, governance documents, and consolidated portfolio records to ensure consistent execution.

Must haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Strategy, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Public Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in portfolio planning, enterprise strategy planning and execution, transformation, consulting, or business planning.
• Practical experience supporting planning cycles, business planning workshops, stakeholder engagement, and business plan preparation or updates.
• Strong analytical skills, data management, and ability to generate portfolio insights.
• Capability to structure complex information, link strategic priorities to execution, and prepare clear management deliverables.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with portfolio reporting or visualization tools preferred.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently and stay at client locations for extended periods.

Nice to haves

• Experience in utilities or other highly regulated public-sector organizations.
• Experience supporting Strategic Operations Office, strategy office, transformation office, enterprise PMO, or portfolio management functions.
• Knowledge of strategy execution frameworks, KPI design, benefits tracking, governance models, or balanced scorecards.
• Experience working in consulting, professional services, or secondment-style client assignments.
• Arabic language skills.

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