Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

To oversee and lead the commercial delivery of projects for Ricardo’s Air Quality business in the Middle East. This role involves senior client relationship management, risk assessment, and commercial oversight to ensure projects meet required standards, are delivered on time, and achieve targeted financial outcomes.

Strengthening our working relationships with key clients and collaborating with delivery partners, technical teams and stakeholders whilst ensuring that all activities are undertaken responsibly, operate safely, ethically and in line with all statutory and corporate requirements. Reports to Global Air Business Director or Regional/Technical Director. Primarily working with the Air Quality team, while simultaneously supporting the wider Air, Land & Water Practice as a key member of Ricardo’s Middle East team.

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Operations and Financial Performance

• Provide end-to-end commercial oversight on regional projects, ensuring adherence to scope, budget, and quality standards.
• Implement and monitor risk mitigation strategies in collaboration with project and technical leaders, ensuring all potential project risks are identified, evaluated, and addressed proactively.
• Ensure financial objectives are achieved for each project by maintaining strict oversight of budgets, timelines, and deliverable quality.
• Responsible for strategic Project Management, focused on client management and commercial risk assessment working with technical leaders and Project Directors.
• Ensure that all project activities and outputs meet or exceed both Ricardo’s and the client’s quality standards - and that any activities and processes that are defined meet all EHS and ESG requirements.

Client Management for Project Success

• Engage with clients to ensure project expectations are met, resolving any significant issues proactively to maintain Ricardo’s reputation for project excellence in the region.
• Proactively identifies and addresses potential project challenges, implementing solutions that ensure projects stay on track and meet all quality and budgetary requirements
• Provision of senior client liaison and identifying opportunities to expand the business / follow-on opportunities from key clients, positively expanding partnerships and alliances to increase market footprint.

Resourcing & Wider Leadership

• Support strong collaboration with project managers & Directors and business managers to ensure required resourcing for successful project delivery.
• Build regional expertise and understanding of market trends, regulatory landscapes, and competitor strategies to identify key opportunities for growth and strategic partnerships.

Please note, regular International and domestic travel will be required.

Key Competencies and Experience

It is expected that the successful candidate will be degree educated with at least 10+ years of experience. They will bring the energy and capability to drive significant performance and growth, with the following background experiences:

• Have experience of working in the environmental consultancy sector.
• Demonstrate technical exposure across one or more of the following areas or related disciplines:

• Air Quality Measurement
• Air Quality Modelling and Forecasting
• Emissions Inventories
• Environmental Policy & Climate Change
• Energy & Carbon Regulation

• Demonstrated ability to oversee complex projects, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives, client requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Extensive experience in commercial project delivery within the Middle East, with strong competencies in financial oversight, budgeting and the proactive management of project risks, challenges or problems.
• Strong experience and deep understanding of business performance reporting and analysing financial/operational data to make decisions and continuous improvements

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Experience with Oil and Gas and/or other Industrial emitters would be advantageous, but not essential.
• Arabic language skills are highly desirable.
• Experience of working in a complex / matrix global organization.
• Ability to relocate to any GCC country where Ricardo operates
• Familiarity with leveraging digital and technical solutions to enhance service offerings.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.