Job Summary

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Role - Manager, Learning Transformation & Change

Experience : 11-15 years, including substantial consulting experience

Capability mix : Learning consulting with solid organisational change management capability

Travel: 25%-50% across KSA, UAE and Qatar, engagement-dependent

The Opportunity

The Manager is a core leadership hire for the growing MENA Learning & Change portfolio. The role leads client engagements end to end, shapes commercially viable solutions, supports high-priority pursuits and helps build the assets, talent and operating discipline required for a scalable practice.

The role combines learning transformation, organisational change management, business development and AI-enabled learning. The successful candidate will work with MENA partners and account teams across government, energy and financial services, with KSA as the primary growth market.

Key Responsibilities

Client delivery and engagement leadership

- Lead concurrent learning and change engagements across scope, solution, quality, financials, resourcing, risk and client satisfaction.
- Own solution architecture across capability models, learning strategy, learning journeys, curriculum, change and adoption, technology enablement, measurement and sustainment.
- Manage engagement economics including effort, margin, realisation, change control and revenue recognition against plan.
- Lead stakeholder interviews, executive workshops, design sessions, steering reviews and client presentations.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and address delivery risks and escalations promptly.

Learning transformation and change strategy

- Lead learning needs analysis, capability diagnostics, skills mapping and workforce upskilling roadmaps.
- Design learning operating models, academies, curriculum architectures, blended journeys and outcome measurement frameworks.




- Design change and adoption strategies for digital, operating model, regulatory and workforce transformations.
- Integrate stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, capability building, reinforcement and benefits realisation into learning solutions.
- Support leadership assessment-led development solutions, including assessment administration and interpretation through suitably accredited practitioners.

Pursuits, proposals and market development

- Lead L&D; and change pursuits from qualification through win themes, solution design, delivery model, workplan, staffing, assumptions, pricing inputs and oral presentations.
- Translate RFP and client requirements into differentiated, executable and commercially sound solutions under tight timelines.
- Develop capability showcases, credentials, case studies, proposal content and reusable response assets.
- Partner with MENA account teams, subject-matter specialists, finance and delivery leaders to improve proposal quality and conversion.
- Identify account extensions and cross-portfolio opportunities with OCM, HRT, OWT and Design Theatre capabilities.

AI-enabled learning and innovation

- Apply Microsoft Copilot and other approved generative AI tools to research, proposal development, learning design and content acceleration in line with firm policies.
- Shape AI-enabled learning solutions, including a learning content generation accelerator, personalised learning journeys and learning analytics use cases.
- Define appropriate human review, quality, privacy, intellectual property and risk controls for AI-assisted deliverables.
- Contribute to at least one client-facing AI-enabled learning accelerator or innovation use case.

Practice and people leadership

- Coach Senior and Staff consultants, review client deliverables and build consulting, learning,



change and AI capability across the team.
- Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, deployment, utilisation planning and certification pathways.
- Build and maintain the capability repository, proposal repository and case-study repository.
- Develop reusable methodologies, accelerators, estimation models, service descriptions and delivery playbooks.

Skills and Attributes for Success

- Commercial and consulting judgement: Structures ambiguous problems, builds credible solutions and manages engagement economics.
- Learning and change integration: Applies learning strategy and change management together to deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Pursuit leadership: Creates clear win themes, compelling proposal narratives and realistic delivery approaches.
- Executive communication and facilitation: Leads workshops and presents recommendations with clarity and confidence.
- AI fluency: Uses AI responsibly to improve speed and quality and can shape AI-enabled learning solutions.
- Builder mindset: Is comfortable creating repeatable capability while delivering client work in a lean, growth-stage team.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

- 11-15 years of relevant experience across L&D; consulting, learning transformation and organisational change management, including substantial client-facing consulting experience.
- Proven end-to-end engagement leadership with responsibility for quality, team, financials and client outcomes.
- Demonstrable experience leading pursuits, developing proposals and shaping learning or change solutions.
- Depth in learning strategy, needs analysis, curriculum and journey design, facilitation, evaluation and capability building.
- Working knowledge of change impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, adoption and reinforcement.
- Hands-on, responsible use of generative AI and Microsoft Copilot for consulting, proposals and learning work.

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