Manager / Senior Manager | Tax & Legal | Legal | Legal Management Consultancy

Location

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

When you work for us, you commit to a career at one of the largest and most prestigious professional services firms in the world. Looking for a rewarding career? Take a closer look at Deloitte & Touche ME. It has received numerous awards in the last few years, including Best Employer in the Middle East, Best Consulting Firm, and the Middle East Training & Development Excellence Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Our region encompasses diverse tax laws, which is part of what makes a career in tax with Deloitte & Touche Middle East a truly stimulating experience. With many corporations operating across several borders, your knowledge of tax will be key to making sure our clients stay on the right side of tax laws and minimize their tax costs. Your people skills will also be engaged as you form close working relationships with clients, while your technical knowledge will be stretched as you develop expertise across consulting, business, finance, and law to craft commercially sound solutions. As you gain experience, you will do so with the full support of a firm that believes in helping you grow and providing you with the skills to succeed.

The legal sector is undergoing rapid, technology-driven transformation. Large language models, agentic AI, intelligent automation, and broader digital technologies are fundamentally reshaping how legal services are designed, delivered, and managed, creating significant opportunities for legal organizations and law firms that are transforming the way they operate.

Deloitte’s Legal Management Consulting (LMC) team in the Middle East partners with in-house legal departments and law firms to redesign their operating models across processes, people, and technology, from strategy through to implementation and sustained operational change. LMC combines deep legal sector expertise with enterprise-grade consulting and technology delivery capabilities. As part of the global Deloitte Legal network, with over 2,500 legal professionals across more than 85 jurisdictions, we are now building a dedicated LMC capability in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to serve the Middle East market. This is a foundational hire for that team.

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Job summary

As a Manager or Senior Manager, depending on experience, you will independently lead engagements or major workstreams within large-scale programs, reporting to engagement partners and directors. You will serve as a technical leader across legal operations and growth, as well as legal technology and AI. You will lead legal operating model and operations transformation work alongside LLM-powered solutions, AI workflow design, agentic AI workflows, and system deployments. You will also develop senior client relationships to build the sales pipeline in the Middle East and coach and develop junior team members.

Key responsibilities

• Independently manage complex, end-to-end client engagements and major workstreams spanning legal operations, operating model design, and legal technology and AI, acting as the senior Deloitte presence on projects.
• Build trusted senior client relationships across in-house legal departments and law firms, acting as a recognized advisor on legal operations, growth, and AI-enabled transformation.
• Actively develop and own your sales pipeline, and build your personal brand as an LMC specialist through thought leadership and professional networks.
• Take a leading role in shaping LMC propositions and market positioning in the Middle East, and inspire high-performing, diverse teams across multiple engagements.
• Lead the design and implementation of legal operating models and legal technology solutions at scale, including legal operations redesign, LLM-powered tools, AI workflows, agentic AI architectures, and enterprise legal platforms, to transform clients’ legal operations and service delivery models.

Day-to-day activities

• Provide a vision for deliverables, own key client relationships, and maintain expert knowledge across legal operations and growth strategy, as well as legal technology platforms, AI and LLM integration tools, and delivery frameworks, alongside standard tools such as PowerPoint and Excel.
• Communicate proactively and effectively with clients and colleagues, confidently lead meetings, construct clear narratives, and hold difficult conversations where needed.
• Build and maintain senior client relationships, leverage specialist knowledge to articulate the value LMC brings, and proactively identify new opportunities across Deloitte Legal and the wider firm.
• Plan and manage engagements on time and within budget, leading teams by setting clear expectations, delegating appropriately, and driving team accountability for delivery.
• Foster a collaborative and inspiring team environment, act as a people leader, support career development planning, and identify future skills needs for the LMC practice.
• Lead sales efforts, own the development of pursuit materials, establish client relationships beyond immediate engagements, and identify new business development opportunities.
• Actively build your personal brand internally and externally by publishing thought leadership on legal operations, legal technology, generative AI, agentic AI, and legal operations transformation; contributing to external events; and collaborating globally with other Deloitte practitioners to drive innovation.
• Contribute to capability building in legal transformation, AI-enabled legal services, and technology advisory.

Skills and professional experience

• Significant consulting experience, with a strong record of independently managing complex engagements in the legal, professional services, or adjacent sectors, particularly in legal operations and legal technology deployments.
• Demonstrable understanding of the challenges and requirements of in-house legal departments and/or law firms, combined with deep working knowledge of legal operating models, legal operations and growth strategy, LLMs, agentic AI, AI workflow design, and their practical application to legal service delivery and legal operations.
• Proven experience shaping and managing complex transformation projects, with hands-on experience implementing legal operations improvements and legal technology solutions at scale, including operating model redesign, technology architecture design, AI-enabled process reengineering, enterprise legal management platforms, and solution integration.
• Strong technical understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations, AI workflow orchestration, agentic AI design patterns, and prompt engineering, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical client solutions and clearly articulate the business value of AI-enabled legal transformation.
• Proven senior client relationship management skills, with experience building trusted advisory relationships across in-house legal departments and law firms, and a demonstrable track record in business development.
• A confident, considered point of view on complex issues, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and hold difficult conversations with clients and team members.
• Strong people leadership experience, with a record of developing and inspiring diverse, multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent commercial acumen, including engagement pricing, scoping, budget management, and profitability, as well as high proficiency in core delivery and collaboration tools.