Consultant Job📣 إعلان

About the Role

Elm Company is seeking a Consultant to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is central to driving technology strategy, governance, and operational excellence by translating business objectives into clear technology priorities and strategic roadmaps. The Consultant ensures that strategic initiatives and projects align with corporate strategy, enterprise architecture, governance frameworks, and business priorities, while optimizing technology investments and evaluating emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Technology Strategy, ensuring alignment with business and corporate objectives.
• Develop and maintain the technology roadmap, including priorities, initiatives, milestones, and target outcomes.
• Evaluate and prioritize initiatives based on business value, strategic alignment, urgency, and expected benefits.
• Ensure projects, investments, budgets, and resources are aligned with approved strategic priorities.
• Identify investment gaps, overlaps, resource constraints, and opportunities for portfolio optimization.
• Ensure technology initiatives comply with approved Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and target-state architecture.
• Assess emerging technologies and evaluate their suitability, value, risks, and implementation requirements.
• Identify opportunities for AI, cloud, automation, digital transformation, and technology modernization.

Strategy Performance and Governance

• Define and monitor strategic KPIs, initiative progress, benefits realization, risks, and dependencies.
• Prepare strategic dashboards and reports highlighting performance, risks, gaps, and key recommendations.
• Provide management and executives with timely, accurate, and data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Ensure approved scope, schedule, milestones, resources, deliverables, and project baselines are established.
• Monitor project progress, RAG status, milestones, KPIs, and performance against approved baselines.
• Consolidate project information into dashboards and reports to provide visibility of overall portfolio health and performance.

Project Control and Continuous Improvement

• Establish and monitor Risk, Assumption, Issue, and Dependency (RAID) registers, ensuring appropriate mitigation actions.
• Review and control changes to project scope, schedule, cost, resources, and approved baselines.
• Support the implementation and continuous enhancement of technology governance frameworks, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Monitor adherence to approved technology policies and governance requirements across initiatives.
• Assess technology planning, governance, portfolio, and project management practices against industry standards.
• Identify process gaps and develop practical recommendations and action plans to enhance technology effectiveness.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional certifications related to technology disciplines are considered an advantage.
• 4–6 years of experience in technology strategy, strategic initiatives, technology planning, innovation, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, project delivery, portfolio management, technology governance, performance monitoring, innovation initiatives, and cross-functional technology environments.

Compliance and Operational Standards

The successful candidate will follow all relevant departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions to ensure work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner. Compliance with all relevant safety, quality, environmental management policies, procedures, and controls is essential to ensure a healthy and safe work environment. Adherence to all relevant information security practices and standards is also required to maintain data integrity and confidentiality.