# Principal Consultant - Data Governance (Strategy Execution & Value Realization) — Inbox Business Technologies

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Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: lead
Monthly salary: AED 8,820 to 11,760 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-10-02
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## Description

Inbox Business Technologies is looking for an experienced Principal Consultant — Data Governance to own the data-and-AI-vertical governance relationship within a multi-vertical Strategy Execution & Value Realization Office, ensuring strategic initiatives within that vertical are delivered with rigorous governance, measurable benefits, and sustained architectural compliance. Act as the senior escalation point for cross-vertical dependencies and the primary governance counterpart to executive stakeholders.
Employment Type: Full-time employment
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and own the operating model, governance structure, methodologies, templates and tools used to run strategy execution governance for the data-and-AI vertical, as part of a broader multi-vertical governance office.
- Own cross-vertical coordination for the data-and-AI vertical — portfolio visibility, dependency mapping against other verticals, and escalation of issues that exceed a single vertical's authority.
- Own the governance framework for strategic-initiative delivery: stage gates, milestones, risk/issue/dependency management, budget oversight, quality and change-request governance across the vertical's strategic objectives and initiatives.
- Lead the governance relationship with the Enterprise Architecture function — coordinating Architecture Review Board participation, maintaining architecture decision records, and ensuring solution designs remain compliant with enterprise standards.
- Own the executive reporting relationship for the vertical: executive dashboards, portfolio reports, scorecards and decision-support insights, reported on an agreed cadence to senior stakeholders.
- Set the benefit-realization methodology for the vertical — defining success measures, validating business cases, and confirming that initiatives deliver expected value before closure.
- Develop and own governance frameworks, methodologies, standards, templates and playbooks used across the vertical's portfolio, including oversight of the KPI cascade tooling that connects strategic themes down to operational KPIs.
- Lead periodic maturity assessments of governance, portfolio management and value-realization capability, benchmarking against industry practice and directing improvement initiatives.
- Own transition and continuity planning for the vertical's governance function at the end of the current strategy horizon, including options for continuation, re-tender or in-house transition.
- Provide senior mentorship and quality oversight to the Senior Consultant supporting the vertical.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data Management, Information Systems, Business, Engineering) with a minimum of 8 years' relevant experience in data governance, enterprise/programme governance, or strategy execution advisory — including at least 3-5 years operating at a principal/senior-advisory level with direct executive stakeholder engagement.
- Demonstrable experience designing and running governance operating models for large, multi-workstream strategic portfolios.
- Demonstrable experience engaging Enterprise Architecture functions, Architecture Review Boards, and senior executive stakeholders in complex organisations.
- Portfolio and programme governance frameworks (e.g., MoP, MSP, P3O); data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK).
- Benefits realization methodology, KPI architecture design and executive reporting.
- Executive stakeholder engagement, escalation management and cross-functional facilitation.
- CDMP (DAMA) — preferred; PMP / PgMP or MoP — preferred; TOGAF — a plus.

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