Senior Manager/AVP - Business Consultant

The purpose of the Global Change Delivery Business Consultant is to manage and execute business efforts across a portfolio of smaller consulting projects or play a key role in one of the global priority programmes, particularly in the mobilisation, definition phase.

Business Consultants will work at the project level and will be accountable for delivering discreet deliverables. Whilst Business Consultants will work as part of a bigger team, they may be required to manage a small team of Business Analysts to support them in their own delivery. Typically, a Business Consultant will work across all engagement types i.e. they will not necessarily be domain / type of change aligned, but may choose to align themselves to a particular area as they gain more expertise and experience.

- On occasions, a Business Consultant may be expected to be mobile to support certain activities that involve working directly with business / process owners in other locations i.e. for data gathering / fact finding, requirements gathering, solution design, implementing - quick wins- and mobilising new engagements.

- Success in this role will require the Business Consultant to be flexible and able to adapt to the needs of the business, analyse and interpret data efficiently and work at pace, being value outcome focused.

Value Creation :

- Identify additional customer needs that were previously unrecognized by the customer; involve customer in developing solution options.

- Appeal to customer's viewpoint in order to understand and deliver the most beneficial solutions.

- Constructively question current thinking and status quo.

- Proactively help turn innovative ideas into reality.

- Experiment, take mitigate-able risks and learn from the results.

- Proactively research and develop ideas / products / services which are new.

- Work with line management to define detailed value-focused solution options based on the opportunity and provide recommendations, weighing up investment vs. return.

- Drive meetings to decision points, influencing and negotiating outcomes.

- Bring structure and order to undefined problems and / or large scale problems, making them easier to address and solve.

- Sustain existing stakeholder relationships and identify new engagement opportunities across multiple levels in a planned and structured way to support current and future change.

- Support business development initiatives.