Job Description

• Management consultants help organisations to solve issues, create value, maximise growth and improve business performance. They use their business skills to provide objective advice and expertise and help an organisation to develop any specialist skills that it may be lacking.
• Carry out research and data collection to understand the organisation
• Conduct analysis
• Grow customer base and proffer solutions to clients based on needs identified
• Interview the client’s employees, management team and other stakeholders with a view to understanding their needs
• Conduct and facilitate training sessions
• Develop training modules and content based on client’s needs
• Run focus groups and facilitate workshops
• Prepare business proposals and presentations
• Identify issues and form hypotheses and solutions
• Present findings and recommendations to clients
• Implement recommendations or solutions and ensure the client receives the necessary assistance to carry it all out
• Manage projects and programmes
• Lead and manage those within the team, including analysts
• Liaise with the client to keep them informed of progress and to make relevant decisions.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a numerate discipline, Humanities, or Social Sciences. Higher degree is an added advantage.
• The ability to sell products and services
• Knowledge of English language
• Good presentation skills
• The ability to use your initiative
• Leadership skills
• Customer service skills
• Business management skills
• Ambition and a desire to succeed
• To be able to use a computer and the main software packages confidently
• Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
• Excellent telephone manners for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associate
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
• Good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
• A professional manner and presentable appearance for meeting customers/clients
• Initiative and good decision-making skills
• Project management skills
• The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
• Great organisational skills
• Good networking skills
• The ability to think strategically
• The ability to analyse sales figures and write reports
• Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch
• The ability to speak a foreign language may be an asset if you’re dealing with overseas clients.