Palladium Group - Senior Consultant - Strategy Consulting

The purpose of a senior consultant to develop and understand the methodologies they have learnt as consultants. A Senior Consultant would have honed their knowledge in the industries they have worked in, not so much as an expert but as a knowledgeable person about the Strategy Execution challenges in the intersection of Palladium's capabilities with typical client needs in that sector.

Primary responsibilities:

The Senior Consultant is responsible for leading the implementation of a discrete work stream as part of a broader project. The primary responsibilities of the Senior Consultant are to:

- Work with senior team members to develop hypotheses and work plans that address project objectives

- Manage the data collection and analysis

- Develop insights from the analytical process and integrate findings into the broader project work

- Build the relationship between Palladium and the client's project team

- Interact independently with client leadership

- Identify follow-on opportunities and articulate proposed approach

- Proactively seek out opportunities to be involved in winning new clients

- Co-facilitate client workshops

- Coach and mentor junior team members both overall and on projects

- Manage and coordinate internal projects

Experience required

- Relevant business experience, preferably in strategy consulting or equivalent multi-client consulting environment

- Balanced skills in general problem solving, concept development, project management, and facilitation

- Experience with performance management methodologies, particularly the Kaplan/Norton framework is desirable

Key competencies and professional expertise required

- Outstanding facilitation skills, memorable in-person presentation abilities

- Results driven, persistent, and persuasive

- Self-starter/pro-active, strong entrepreneurial spirit

- Willingness to travel up to 4 days out of 5

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

- Proficiency in written and spoken English and Hindi. Other languages like Marathi is desirable

Core competencies:

- The ability to support and promote changes within the organisation, support others in new ways of working, identify opportunities to apply learning and flexible to changing priorities.

- The ability to challenge the status quo, think creatively, strong analytical skills, comfort working with unstructured and ambiguous approaches to problem solving.

- Intuitive ability to incorporate disparate ideas into simple but effective concepts.

- The ability to develop trusted and effective partnering relationships with clients, advise and influence across all levels of the organisation, consultative, collaborative, work effectively with diverse wok styles and personalities and support others in understanding the value of diversity and inclusion.

- The ability to take ownership of learning and striving to develop own knowledge and capabilities to support the organisation's success.

- Highly organised with effective time management, attention to detail and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and priorities work based on business needs.

- The ability to see how the individual role fits with Palladium's organisational objectives; see the bigger picture; commercial, political and business acumen and the ability to recognize business drivers.