Principal Consultant Data Governance (Strategy Execution & Value Realization)

About the Role

Inbox Business Technologies is seeking a Principal Consultant for Data Governance in Riyadh. This full-time role involves owning the data and AI vertical's governance relationship within a multi-vertical Strategy Execution & Value Realization Office. The consultant will ensure strategic initiatives are delivered with rigorous governance, measurable benefits, and sustained architectural compliance. This position acts as a senior escalation point for cross-vertical dependencies and the primary governance counterpart to executive stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and own the operating model, governance structure, methodologies, templates, and tools for strategy execution governance within the data and AI vertical, as part of a broader multi-vertical governance office.
• Manage cross-vertical coordination for the data and AI vertical, including portfolio visibility, dependency mapping against other verticals, and escalation of issues beyond a single vertical's authority.
• Oversee the governance framework for strategic initiative delivery, including stage gates, milestones, risk/issue/dependency management, budget oversight, quality, and change-request governance across the vertical's strategic objectives.
• Lead the governance relationship with the Enterprise Architecture function, coordinating Architecture Review Board participation, maintaining architecture decision records, and ensuring solution designs comply with enterprise standards.
• Manage executive reporting for the vertical, including executive dashboards, portfolio reports, scorecards, and decision-support insights, reported on an agreed cadence to senior stakeholders.
• Establish the benefit-realization methodology for the vertical, defining success measures, validating business cases, and confirming expected value delivery before initiative closure.
• Develop and own governance frameworks, methodologies, standards, templates, and playbooks used across the vertical's portfolio, including oversight of KPI cascade tooling.
• Lead periodic maturity assessments of governance, portfolio management, and value-realization capability, benchmarking against industry practice and directing improvement initiatives.
• Own transition and continuity planning for the vertical's governance function at the end of the current strategy horizon, including options for continuation, re-tender, or in-house transition.
• Provide senior mentorship and quality oversight to the Senior Consultant supporting the vertical.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Data Management, Information Systems, Business, or Engineering.
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in data governance, enterprise/programme governance, or strategy execution advisory.
• At least 3-5 years operating at a principal or senior advisory level with direct executive stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrable experience in designing and running governance operating models for large, multi-workstream strategic portfolios.
• Demonstrable experience engaging Enterprise Architecture functions, Architecture Review Boards, and senior executive stakeholders in complex organizations.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.