Professional Services - Director - KSA📣 Job Ad

About the Role

SimCorp is a leading FinTech company focused on shaping the future of financial technology. We are seeking a Professional Services - Director to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role involves a dual focus on driving growth through the shaping and selling of high-value services, and delivering impact by leading successful client engagements and a high-performing consulting team. As part of the EMEA leadership team, you will play a key role in influencing regional success and scaling our consulting organization, with a strategic emphasis on the Middle East & Africa region.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and inspire a high-performing consulting team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
• Manage performance, career development, and compensation for your team.
• Coach and mentor consultants to drive growth, engagement, and retention.
• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and capability building within your team.
• Allocate resources effectively, balancing business needs and individual aspirations, and act as a trusted advisor to consultants on delivery challenges and professional growth.
• Foster strong collaboration across local and global practices.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality outcomes and profitable engagements, owning project profitability, quality, and client satisfaction.
• Apply SimCorp and industry best practices to maximize delivery impact.
• Lead pre- and post-sales discussions relating to project scoping and rollout.
• Be accountable for project execution capacity and coordinate resources during the project sales phase, securing the quality of all contractual deliverables.
• Participate in internal and client project steering group meetings.
• Facilitate or create Statements of Work in close alignment with Customer Success.
• Ensure staffing of projects for customers within your responsibility in coordination with the EMEA Consulting Management team and global resource management.
• Actively drive growth and expand our services footprint, selling services and being accountable for revenue generation.
• Contribute to the development of profitable services and global initiatives to improve efficiency and grow services revenue.
• Deliver on financial and operational KPIs for Consulting in the market unit, balancing efficiency, effectiveness, and quality/satisfaction.
• Act as the Services lead for clients, strengthening long-term partnerships.
• Participate in Account Teams and strategy meetings for customers within your responsibility.
• Cultivate leads for consultancy at customers within your responsibility in collaboration with the Customer Success team.
• Coordinate with Customer Success and Solution Engineering on campaigns.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Strong understanding of asset management and asset owner operations and processes.
• Experience delivering complex transformation programs in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven ability to deploy and scale standard solutions.
• Ability to build trusted, senior client relationships.
• Track record of delivering complex projects with high quality and control.
• Strong decision-making skills, balancing risk, cost, and quality.
• Excellent prioritization, planning, and execution capabilities.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to navigate complexity and manage stakeholders effectively.
• Collaborative mindset with strong team and cross-functional engagement.

Skills Profile

• Asset Management Operations
• Asset Owner Operations
• Transformation Programs
• SimCorp Dimension (familiarity is an advantage but not a prerequisite)
• People Leadership
• Talent Development
• Client Relationship Management
• Project Delivery
• Business Development
• Communication
• Negotiation
• Influencing
• Stakeholder Management
• Collaboration

Work Environment and Additional Information

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. SimCorp operates a global hybrid work policy, requiring employees to be in the office two days per week. Additional location-specific benefits information is available from the recruiter. Applications should be submitted in English via our career site. We process applications continually. SimCorp is committed to fairness and equal opportunities, and we encourage applicants to exclude personal data such as photos, age, or non-professional information from their applications to help mitigate biases in our recruitment process. For any questions, please contact Azeta GUITI, Lead Talent Acquisition Partner. We encourage you to submit your CV even if you are not entirely sure the role is a perfect fit, as we are on an exciting growth journey and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you in discovering the right role. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks. SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work.