About This Role
Managers and Senior Managers are sought to support complex and high-profile engagements within the Performance Improvement Practice. This role involves research, analytical problem-solving, modeling, and report preparation, with a focus on delivering rapid, bottom-line improvements for clients.
Responsibilities
- Work with team members in information gathering approach and ensure all relevant sources of information are pursued
- Guide and lead client interviews, ask inquisitive questions and understand different stakeholders’ perspective
- Identify knowledge gaps, guide the team to challenge status quo, validate, disprove and/or develop better assumptions
- Identify key business challenges, accurately forecast financial performance and liquidity needs, pinpoint operational process inefficiencies and assess the organization’s design, roles, and team
- Ensure issues and opportunities are clearly and concisely presented
- Ensure that project approach, timeline and deliverables are logical, reasonable, and accurate
- Set and communicate client’s expectation consistently
- Identify risks and obstacles early on, create contingency plans and communicating timely with client
- Own and complete multiple workstreams simultaneously
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering or any major with quantitative focus) with proven record of academic excellence
- At least 6-8 years of experience in strategy consulting or relevant corporate / industry experience
- Excellent analytical skills, logical and structured thinking, creative in problem solving
- Ability to extract useful information from large sets of unorganized or incomplete data
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams concurrently
- Superior interpersonal attributes including communication and soft skills, ability to work in a team, results/performance-oriented work style, entrepreneurial, personal maturity
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written, capable of interaction at all levels in a company, from factory floor to CEO
- Experience delivering Performance Improvement projects (ideally in a client-site focused delivery model) in a top tier strategy firm, leading specialist and/or niche advisory firm or ‘Big 4’ consultancy
- Varied cross sector background including telecommunications, automotive, manufacturing, energy, retail, consumer goods, transportation, business services and healthcare
- Experience in operational KPIs, Balance Score Cards, and a reporting/ review process to ensure continuous improvement of the operational performance of the business
- Detail-oriented
- Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
