Business Consultant -

Business Consultant

Principal Responsibilities

- Identifying and defining problems related to change delivery for the wider business

- Delivering structure and discipline to an unstructured problem

- Using logic, creative and innovative thinking to devise solutions to business challenges

- Implementing solutions and anticipating their impact on the business operations and cultures

- Leading teams to challenge the operating practices and critical thinking around design of business solutions

- Gathering, analyzing and tracking business requirements and translating these into business solutions and structures

- Understanding the Group Strategy, imperatives and vision and translating these into a business models

- Translating the business model into an operating model, considering customers, services, teams and governance

- Understanding the impact of change against the target operating model; testing and refining designs with stakeholders and change audiences

- Challenging existing thinking, generating new and creative ideas

- Engendering an innovative, learning-oriented culture where all employees feel able to contribute new ideas and approaches as well as involving change audiences in generating new ideas

- Willing to experiment, take risks to consider new and untested approaches and learn from the results

Qualifications & Requirements:

- Group and businesses' strategy; Acquisitions and mergers; Processes; Systems and Current state vs. Target state

- Have the knowledge and expertise to design solutions that must comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements - albeit that inherent in the role is the requirement to challenge our interpretation of these requirements to ensure that we take a commercial approach to their implementation

Experience:

- At least 7- 9 years of experience working on business consulting / Industry experience within large complex organizations

- Experience of working closely with Strategy and Planning and the business / function board ideal

- Demonstrated ability to build, maintain and navigate the organization using formal / informal networking skills

- Demonstrated experience with organizational change and business transformation; proficiency in Change

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and some experience in face-to-face presentation

- Problem solving and analysis skills

Qualifications and Accreditations:

- Typically, qualifications would include an undergraduate or postgraduate degree

- MBA is beneficial