Manager - Cultural Consulting
Posted about 2 months ago
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.
• 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
• 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.
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Strategic Gears is an award-winning consulting firm with a focus on helping the most ambitious and consequential organizations in the world define what comes next—and deliver it with the precision, speed, and depth that the moment demands. Founded in Riyadh in 2015, we have built one of the region’s most respected consulting practices by creating a unique model that combines deep expertise while maintaining proximity and relevance to clients—a strategy that earned us a Platinum ranking among leading consulting firms in the Middle East, and one we maintained and replicated as we expanded into Europe and Africa. Across three continents and seven locations, our team of 300+ professionals works with a trusted ecosystem that includes thousands of global experts, elite educational institutions, and implementation partners. ستراتيجك جيرز هي شركة استشارية تركز على مساعدة المؤسسات الأكثر طموحًا وتأثيرًا في العالم على تحديد ما يأتي مستقبلاً، وتنفيذه بالدقة والسرعة والعمق التي تتطلبها المرحلة. تأسست شركتنا في الرياض عام 2015، ومنذ حينها بنينا واحدة من أكثر الممارسات الاستشارية احترامًا في المنطقة من خلال نموذج فريد يجمع بين خبرات عميقة عبر مجالات متعددة ومجموعة واسعة من القدرات، مع الحفاظ على القرب والصلة من العملاء، وهي استراتيجية حافظنا عليها وكرّرناها مع توسعنا إلى أوروبا وأفريقيا. عبر ثلاث قارات وسبعة مواقع، يعمل فريقنا الذي يضم أكثر من 300 متخصص ضمن منظومة موثوقة تشمل آلاف الخبراء العالميين، ومؤسسات تعليمية رائدة، وشركاء تنفيذيين.
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