Strategy Consultant: Project Leader

2020-06-26 | po-016771

Company description

This top tier consulting company partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. They are the pioneer in business strategy and help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. Their global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. They deliver solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. They work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

Responsibilities

1. Build leadership skills by taking ownership of project management learning to keep one eye on the big picture and the other on the details.

2. Provide intellectual leadership for the team and ensure that the project is delivered on time and within budget, harnessing the team’s diversity to ensure the development of creative solutions to complex problems.

3. Give your team members formal and informal feedback and encourage them as they continue to develop their skills.

4. By managing the client relationship you ensure that the team exceeds the client’s expectations.

5. Start to play a role in building the company by participating in recruiting campaigns, contributing to training programs, and writing for internal and external audiences.

6. Have the option of becoming a facilitator for PTO (Predictability, Teaming, and Open Communication), the Firm’s innovative approach to achieving work-life balance through smarter case team management.

7. In this role, the Firm’s teams are your client, and you would work with them to identify issues, diagnose root causes, and collaborate with them to find innovative solutions.

8. You would handle up to ten cases, providing structure, guidance, and coaching on effective case team process through regular meetings with teams.

Requirements

1. Demonstrated expertise aligned with one of the company's practice areas.

2. 3 to 5+ years of post-graduate school consulting experience, with 1+ years at a team lead level.

3. Track record of collaboration with senior executives. Must be comfortable delivering formal presentations to management.

4. Strong management and communication skills. The ability to bring together all stakeholders and persuade senior clients to take action is essential.

5. Strong analytical skills and a high capacity for conceptual thinking.

6. Ability to develop leading edge business models, frameworks for analysis, and long-term business strategies that maximize shareholder value.

7. Must be able to thrive in a hypothesis- based environment where inductive rather than deductive reasoning is the norm.

8. Proven ability to manage client engagements, client relationships, and provide “thought leadership” to teams, owning the responsibility for the quality of engagements.

9. A combination of management and “hands on” delivery experience is critical.

10. A solid track record of building strong client relationships with large organizations, as well as identifying opportunities to deepen those relationships and grow the business.

11. Technical degree is nice to have but not required.

12. A degree from a top-tier institution preferred.