Director Transaction Advisory Full Time NEW

From the projects you will work on to the clients we partner with. From career‑defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where everyone contributes to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it will be anything but ordinary.

Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.

Your next role

Buro Happold is supporting the transformation of cities and public services across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC, aligned with Vision 2030, national transformation programmes, and public‑sector reform agendas. As Director – Transaction Advisory within our Municipal Services team, you will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping, structuring, and delivering complex public‑sector transactions across the region.

Based in KSA, you will lead Transaction Advisory services across priority municipal sectors including urban services, mobility, utilities, public realm, mixed-use development, sport and social infrastructure. You will work closely with senior public‑sector stakeholders and delivery entities.

This role offers a rare opportunity to combine deep KSA market understanding, strong knowledge of the local NCP PPP lifecycle framework, and global best practice to help public authorities structure bankable, resilient, and outcome‑driven transactions that deliver long‑term value for citizens.

Your key duties

As a Director, you will provide senior leadership to our Transaction Advisory and PPP offering within Municipal Services, driving growth, credibility, and excellence in delivery across KSA and the GCC.

You will:

• Lead the Transaction Advisory strategy in KSA and the GCC for public‑sector projects, aligned with Buro Happold’s regional growth.
• Originate and lead PPP, privatization, and transaction advisory engagements, including project screening, feasibility studies, business cases, value‑for‑money assessments, and procurement strategies.
• Advise public‑sector clients across the full PPP lifecycle, including project identification, structuring, market sounding, procurement, bid evaluation, and support through financial close.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior government, municipal, and delivery authority leadership, supporting decisions on service delivery models, private‑sector participation, and long‑term operating arrangements.
• Provide expert advice on commercial, contractual, and risk‑allocation structures, ensuring transactions are bankable, compliant with KSA frameworks, and aligned with policy and affordability objectives.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams (engineering, planning, operations, digital, economics) to deliver integrated, technically robust, and commercially sound transaction solutions.
• Lead high‑level client engagements, workshops, negotiations, and market‑facing interactions with government entities, investors, developers, operators, and lenders.
• Drive business development across KSA and the GCC, including strategic client relationships, opportunity origination, bid leadership, and framework participation.
• Represent Buro Happold with NCP, municipalities, ministries, and key industry stakeholders, strengthening our position as a trusted advisor in PPP and public‑sector transactions.
• Mentor and develop regional advisory talent, building a strong, locally grounded Transaction Advisory capability within the Municipal Services team.
• Oversee portfolio performance, ensuring quality assurance, commercial success, and effective risk management across advisory commissions.

Your Skills And Experience

You will bring a combination of regional credibility, transaction expertise, and senior‑level leadership experience.

You will have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related discipline; a postgraduate qualification is highly desirable.
• Significant experience in Transaction Advisory, PPP, or Commercial Advisory, gained within a leading consultancy, advisory firm, or financial institution.
• Strong, demonstrable experience in the KSA market, including a clear understanding of government structures, procurement regulations, and the NCP PPP process/Framework.
• A proven track record delivering PPP, privatization, or investment transactions across municipal, infrastructure, or public‑service sectors in KSA and/or the GCC.
• Deep understanding of project delivery models, operating models, funding and financing structures, and risk allocation in public‑sector transactions.
• Established relationships with government entities, NCP, municipalities, investors, developers, and operators in the region.
• Strong leadership and people‑development skills, with experience building and leading senior advisory teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with confidence operating at ministerial, executive, and board level.
• High analytical rigour, commercial judgement, and the ability to operate effectively in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments.

What We Offer You

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements
• Attractive salary and benefits package
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.

Apply today and be a part of our legacy.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values individual’s flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments, we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.