Activation Hub Head Middle East

Our client is a leading global consulting firm, helping the world's top businesses, governments and organizations. Looking for a new "Activation Hub Head" in their Beirut office.

This position reports to the Director of Knowledge and Delivery Center

Primary duties and responsibilities

Activation Hub strategic leadership

• Set and refresh the strategy, vision of AH and manage day-to-day operations, while constantly seeking for improvement and growth opportunities
• Lead proposals, internal projects and team building activities to ensure the AH is delivering on its promise for the firm and the team members
• Build a relationship of trust with the senior leadership team, and become the go-to-person for proposal delivery across all practices
• Coach, guide, and train junior AH team members to improve performance and ensure professional growth
• Establish and update the career growth guidelines for the AH team, to ensure they are constantly motivated to deliver
• Support the team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary

Brand defining proposals development

• Guarantee high standard quality of proposal delivery and support within agreed upon deadlines
• Think strategically about the opportunity and client to ensure win themes are developed across the document
• Effectively and rapidly ramp up on new content across sectors / topics as well as build expertise across all
• sectors and support the team in building an in-depth understanding of new topics in a short timeline
• Develop key hypotheses and insights for the perspective and understanding sections to position the AH proposals as a first step into the assignment findings
• Work well with different leadership styles and build a relationship of trust, working directly with seniors across all practices, and effectively challenging them across proposal development
• Manage own and team members stress levels in case to tight deadline and last-minute changes
• Work closely with the senior engagement team to align on the scoping of the proposal and seek their input throughout the development process
• Work closely with the staffing team to ensure steady pipeline of resources and guarantee effective and continuous staffing of the Activation Hub
• Continuous Innovation in Proposal Delivery
• Champion the usage of AI tools to boost the efficiency and quality of the Activation Hub output
• Drive innovation in proposal delivery by leveraging multimedia and digital technologies and advancing new proposal delivery models such as videos, websites, dashboards, etc.
• Work closely with VCS and preferred vendors on identifying and advancing new visualization or proposal delivery models

Knowledge library and business development

• Become the go-to-person for global references from the firm and outside
• Play a key role to enhance the AH knowledge platform, grow the database of content available ensuring content quality and relevance as well as unique customer experience
• Gradually build a network of global 3rd party providers and SMEs
• Participate with the wider network of partners and seniors - in building key and strategic business development collaterals to be inserted in proposals

Global and cross functional collaboration

• Drive and take ownership for developing connections across the PwC network, building on the GSSC and the local activation hubs and leverage talent and resources across the
• Build strong relations with cross functional teams global and regional Activation Hubs, VCS, Research Hub,
• BOMs, etc.

Quality assurance

• Review and address all facets of deliverable quality (accuracy, content depth, clarity of message, tone, etc.)
• Continuously seek and act on feedback from senior team to improve on processes and delivery
• Ensure the KPIs of the AH are met

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

• 12+ years of experience of which at least 8 years in strategy consulting experience (Senior Manager or Junior Principal Level)
• Influential professional with the ability to challenge high-level stakeholders across sectors / topics
• Strategic thinker who drives and articulate clear and compelling messages
• Experience in managing relationships at senior levels and a proven ability to build client relationships
• Strong project management skills with focus on driving complex projects and managing project/client teams
• Excellent collaboration, interpersonal, communication (verbal and written) and selling skills.
• Can inspire others and develop and help them to succeed years of consulting experience (Manager level)