Oliver Wyman - Director - 8works - Dubai (On-site)

About 8works

8works are a specialist co-creation capability of Oliver Wyman who operate at the forefront of accelerating business transformation through co-creative, design thinking methods. The diverse team has grown to around 40 professionals based in London, New York, Paris, Berlin and Dubai. We work across sectors and geographies for some of the world’s biggest brands. We bring a refreshing, open and human approach to work in order to design, activate and embed people-led change. We use highly immersive, creative and collaborative methods to design elegant solutions to complex challenges; aligning key stakeholders to shared outcomes, whilst dramatically compressing time to results.

The Role - Director

This role is an outstanding opportunity for a talented and experienced co-creation practitioner and leader to take the reigns of a small and talented core team who is bringing the methods and application of design thinking, co-creation and acceleration to the region.

The successful candidate will lead a small team in the Middle East to manage large, complex design events and engagements. This will be done in conjunction with Partners from Oliver Wyman to design a co-creative element into consulting projects to create enhanced outcomes beyond the physical deliverables.

As an integral part of shaping and building upon a growing capability, the candidate will embody the firm’s purpose of creating ‘breakthroughs to achieve the amazing’ whilst managing engagements in a dynamic and fast-moving environment where innovation and entrepreneurialism is cherished.

Responsibilities within the role will sit across four key dimensions: Client Engagement Delivery (specialist and core), Business Development, People Leadership and playing a role in the building of the 8works global venture.

Experience required

- A direct and practical work history in a large consulting firm environment is desired for this lead role.

- Extensive application of design thinking / innovation / acceleration methodology in the course of managing large client facing engagements.

- Evidence of facilitation expertise to both senior groups and large groups within large group design processes.

- Outside of the technical, design and facilitation skills outlined above, the following describe the critical attributes for a candidate:

- Willingness to learn and apply collaborative and outcome focused methodology to transformation programs and business design

- 100% deliverer - shows commitment to do reimagine the possible to make it happen.

- Thrives within a team environment and demonstrates an 'all for one and one for all' mentality

- Thrives on the edge of her/his/their comfort zone, often seeking opportunities to push herself/himself/their self and shares what they learn

- Challenges convention - demonstrates evidence of asking 'why?' to senior stakeholders and 'is there a different or better way of doing this?'.

- Highly adept and efficient skills in Microsoft Office, specifically PowerPoint, Excel and Word.

- Visual modelling and other visual information techniques are desired

- Fluency in Arabic is a plus