Manager - Strategic Initiatives - Consulting Firm

The Strategic Initiative role will work closely with the Partners, Directors and other business leaders towards driving various initiatives in line with business priorities and growth .

Essential Functions:

- Develop detailed knowledge and understanding of business strategy, objectives, and goals

- Establish relationships with key leaders and involved stakeholders

- Assess feasibility of an initiative keeping in mind business perspective & vision

- Analyze and synthesize information to create meaningful data for observation & interpretation

- Apply a structured approach for all initiatives and execute change-related activities

- Administer the progress and report issues to the leads

- Support communication planning and execution of efforts

- Evaluate readiness of initiatives

Functional /Technical Competencies: -

- Should be strong in analytics, should enjoy working with data, carrying out analysis and deriving meaningful insights

- Self-Motivated and self-directed with an ability to think innovatively

- Business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges

- Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

- Knowledge of back office and/or Staffing Industry desired

- Some travel may be required

- Demonstrated ability to learn technical information quickly

- Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences

- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships