Business Consultant

Business Consultant
Main Job Tasks and Required Experience:
* Working closely with the HOD to raise the profile of the department in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship business advisory as an integrated component of the business, technical and legal offering under the Innovation & Patents Department
* providing business consultancy services to clients in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship from innovation advisory to vision setting, strategic implementation and commercialization.
* Experienced in strategy setting; value proposition definition and business modelling; operational planning; projects identification and implementation; capacity building; resource mobilization; marketing, communication; and outreach to sales; Tailored business process development and commercialization models: Developing internal practices to support intrapreneurship and other commercialization strategies, including fostering collective thinking, open innovation, ideation, prototyping and testing, business modelling and planning, and go to market;
* Design and development: Developing programs to be offered to other entities including Government, family businesses, and education institutions including designing tailored programs, partnerships, and resource mobilization to deliver the programs, impact assessment and knowledge transfer;
* Building innovation platforms: Developing design thinking hubs to deliver programs and boot camps for students and executives across the whole region;
* Building networked platforms and ecosystems: Advisory services on how to build ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship at institutional, regional, and national levels and how to build partnerships for resource mobilization;
* Training and curriculum development: Training services on entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership related topics. Advisory services on how to develop new curriculum drawing on trends for the future of work and how to support new curriculum accreditation;
* Research and enabling policy development: Advisory services on focus and design of research and technical reports to support evidence-based innovation and entrepreneurship policy making related to ecosystem building, quality of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship, and other relevant sectors.
* Public Policy: Assisting in conducting studies, advising and drafting public policies and regulations pertaining to innovation and entrepreneurship;
* Supporting with Business Development Activities pertaining to the above;
* Other services as required pertaining to innovation advisory;
Requirements:
* ‎7-‎10 years of relevant experience in a reputable business consultancy firm;
* Background in engineering, business administration or other relevant field;
* Prior work experience in the GCC region - particularly UAE & KSA - is a plus;
* Bilingual (Arabic & English) is a plus;