Manager - Cultural Consulting at Strategic Gears · Riyadh

Strategic Gears is one of the largest local management consultancies in Saudi Arabia, and the market leader in providing multidisciplinary services for both the private and public sectors.

The company offers consulting solutions in the areas of Strategy, Marketing, Operations & Organizational Excellence, and Digital, to a range of clients in both the public and private sectors.

The company is heavily involved in the transformation era of Saudi Arabia, driven by the Vision 2030 initiative, in engagement with various government organizations and the Vision Realization Programs as well as the private sector. Strategic Gears has delivered projects in more than 17 sectors for the most well-known entities in the public sector including ministries, regulatory authorities, and the Saudi Stock Exchange, as well major private sector entities in the Kingdom.

Today, Strategic Gears has offices in Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, as well as an office in Cairo, Doha, London and in Madrid.

Role purpose

Lead workstreams/projects across CTH's Organization & Strategy, Visitor Journey, and Cultural Planning service families, while anchoring the practice's emerging cultural-consulting credibility. This role is positioned to bridge classical management consulting discipline with cultural-sector substance and digital fluency.

Primary capability: Management consulting with demonstrated specialization in cultural consulting , strategy, organizational design, sector development, or cultural advisory engagements delivered to ministries, cultural institutions, or culture-led giga / mega projects.

Secondary capability required: Direct prior experience in the creative sector (e.g., museums, galleries, design studios, production houses, publishing, performing arts, festivals, or creative agencies) , either as a practitioner or as an embedded advisor.

Additional capability required: Working experience inside a digital product environment , ideally a tech startup, digital product company, or digital transformation function , sufficient to bring product thinking, agile delivery logic, and digital experience sensibility into CTH engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead 2–3 workstreams/projects end-to-end: hypothesis design, analysis, stakeholder engagement, synthesis, and executive-ready deliverables.

• Translate cultural-sector knowledge into structured consulting outputs and shape engagement approach design.

• Mentor Analysts and Consultants on consulting craft, writing standards, and cultural-sector context.

• Contribute to proposal development, particularly where cultural + digital + creative angles converge.

• Act as a credible client-facing voice in cultural and creative-sector conversations. • support CTH internal devolvement

Qualifications

• 6–9 years total experience, with at least 3 years in a recognized management/cultural consulting firm.

• Documented project experience in cultural consulting engagements (cultural strategy, cultural sector development, institutional design, or cultural policy advisory).

• Demonstrable creative-sector exposure , either as full-time employment or a sustained engagement portfolio.

• At least one role or substantial engagement inside a tech startup or digital-native environment or similar.

• Strong written English; Arabic is a plus.