Summary
EY is seeking an Assistant Manager / Manager for its Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice in Riyadh, with a focus on Energy and Industrials. The role involves advising clients on sustainability topics, managing workstreams, preparing client materials, and contributing to business development and team growth. Applicants should have at least five years of relevant experience, a relevant undergraduate degree, and experience across multiple sustainability topics in Energy and Industrials. Candidates must be based in Riyadh or able and committed to relocate there.
The posting
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The opportunity
EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) is seeking a Riyadh-based AM/ Manager to support the growth of our sustainability practice, with a particular focus on Energy and Industrials. The role is suited to a commercially minded sustainability professional who can combine technical understanding with a strategic consulting approach, strong communication, and an entrepreneurial drive to build client relationships and develop new opportunities.
You will work across a range of sustainability themes, helping clients understand complex challenges, shape practical solutions, and translate emerging needs into well-defined projects. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to client delivery, business development, thought leadership, and team building in a fast-growing market.
Your key responsibilities
- Apply structured problem-solving to define client issues, develop hypotheses, analyse information, and design practical, value-focused solutions.
- Manage workstreams across multiple client engagements, ensuring high-quality outputs, timely delivery, and effective coordination with senior team members.
- Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and contribute to senior-level discussions across the Energy and Industrials sectors.
- Develop clear, persuasive presentations, proposals, reports, executive summaries, and other client-ready materials.
- Identify and shape business development opportunities by seeding relevant ideas, understanding client priorities, and helping convert opportunities into projects.
- Contribute to proposals, pitches, account planning, market scans, thought leadership, and go-to-market initiatives.
- Advise clients across multiple sustainability topics, which may include climate strategy, ESG, decarbonisation, circular economy, waste management, water stewardship, sustainable supply chains, and sustainability reporting.
- Support work related to climate risk and disclosure, including IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, where relevant to the engagement.
- Contribute to the development of EY methodologies, tools, knowledge assets, and market-facing propositions.
- Support the growth of a high-performing team through coaching, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and active contribution to a positive team culture.
Skills and attributes for success
- Strategic and consulting mindset, with strong structured thinking, problem-solving, and solution-development skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including strong presentation development and slide-writing capability.
- Commercial acumen and a strong business development orientation, with the ability to initiate conversations, develop ideas, and support opportunity conversion.
- Ability to engage confidently with stakeholders, build long-term relationships, and communicate complex topics clearly.
- Broad sustainability experience across Energy and Industrials, with the ability to connect technical issues to business priorities.
- Entrepreneurial spirit, personal accountability, and motivation to help grow the business and build a successful team.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, research, and report-writing skills.
To qualify for the role
- An undergraduate degree, or equivalent, in a relevant discipline such as engineering, environmental science, sustainability, economics, business, public policy, or a related field. An MSc, MBA, or other advanced degree is advantageous.
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in sustainability, climate change, ESG, strategy, consulting, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience across multiple sustainability topics within the Energy and Industrials sectors.
- Experience developing client deliverables, presentations, proposals, and executive-level communications.
- Evidence of contributing to business development, client relationship management, or the conversion of opportunities into engagements.
- Current location in Riyadh, or the ability and commitment to be based in Riyadh.
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Professional experience in the GCC and an understanding of the region’s sustainability and commercial landscape.
- Hands-on experience in circular economy, circularity, and waste management.
- Knowledge of water-related topics, including water strategy, stewardship, efficiency, or risk.
- Understanding of IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, climate risk, and climate-related disclosure requirements.
- Experience with a leading consulting or professional services firm.
- Relevant professional qualifications or further studies in sustainability, climate, ESG, risk, or related disciplines.
What we look for
We are looking for a proactive and commercially focused professional who brings credibility with clients, curiosity across sustainability topics, and the confidence to help grow a developing practice. You will be comfortable moving between strategy and delivery, building relationships, creating compelling materials, and turning early-stage ideas into actionable client opportunities.
What we offer
- Long-term career opportunities within a globally connected professional services organization.
- Continuous learning and development to build the skills and mindset needed for future challenges.
- Exposure to complex sustainability issues and high-impact clients across Energy and Industrials.
- Coaching, collaboration, and opportunities to contribute to the growth of the CCaSS practice.
- A diverse and inclusive culture that values individual perspectives and empowers people to contribute.
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