As seasoned strategy consultants, we have strong conceptual and problem-solving abilities. As a result, we see opportunities where other entrepreneurs see obstacles. This allows us to pursue start-up opportunities in our emerging venture space.

We use an on-demand business model that combines subject-matter expertise from our various engagement teams with project management skills and oversight from our practice leaders.

Our multi-disciplinary team has worked on projects ranging from enterprise development among Nigeria’s emerging small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to corporate turnarounds, economic development, and policy formulation for various levels of government and regulators.

We are looking for ambitious Management Consultants to join our passionate team at Nextzon Business Services Limited. Developing your career as a Management Consultant at Nextzon is an excellent way to learn new skills.

The responsibilities will include:  

• Support clients with developing, planning, and implementing their strategy at the corporate and board level, ensuring articulated initiatives are practicable and aligned to the company’s vision
• Provide business and client advisory services in specialized areas such as strategy, governance, organizational design, strategic operations, finance, risk management, digital transformation, information technology, organizational change management, human resources, and so on.
• Help clients define and deliver transformational initiatives across the organization
• Outline the scope of the work and identify and map out schedules, milestones, and resources needed to meet project objectives.
• Work collaboratively with clients to shape their future by addressing their most complex and critical growth issues
• Support with the facilitation of client strategy discussions using collaborative methods such as design thinking and agile methodology
• Present insights and recommendations enabled by strategic thinking, technical knowledge, and strong communication skills
• Lead work stream and analysis on engagements and take responsibility for small teams when required
• Contribute to thought leadership and knowledge management.
• Conduct extensive research and analysis before offering an unbiased opinion and perspective on difficult issues and complex business problems and issues.
• Directly collaborate with senior leadership and internal project teams to provide hands-on project management and leadership consulting, including project implementation, execution, and measurement.
• Provide strategies for increasing business performance, creating value, and maximizing growth.
• Developing proof-of-concept, business plans, and financial models
• prepare business proposals and presentations
• Evaluate existing systems and procedures and make recommendations for improvement where necessary.
• Implement recommendations or solutions and ensure the client receives the necessary assistance to carry it all out

Qualifications & Experience:

A good first degree from a recognized university preferably 2:1

• A Post-Graduate degree will be advantageous.
• Any project management certification is also an advantage.
• Applicants must have at least four years of practical experience in consulting, advisory or significant experience in one or more of the following industries: financial services, FMCG Fintech, and telecoms.
• Previous and current experience in a management consulting firm will be very advantageous
• Prior experience in strategy consulting
• Track record of collaboration with senior executives. Must be comfortable delivering formal presentations to management.
• Strong analytical skills and a high capacity for conceptual thinking. Must be able to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment.
• Proven ability to manage client engagements, and client relationships, and provide thought leadership to teams, owning the responsibility for the quality of engagements.
•  A combination of management and hands-on delivery experience is critical.

General Skills/Abilities for roles:

• Highly organized, with the ability to work well under pressure
• A strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Capability to create cutting-edge business models, frameworks for analysis, and long-term business strategies. Must be able to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment where inductive rather than deductive reasoning is the norm.
• Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and interpersonal skills
• Good listener and communicator, with sensitivity to cultural communication skills
• Appreciation of the need for confidentiality and integrity
• Well-developed computer skills
• Effectively work as a team member and independently, with a high level of self-motivation
• Comfortable working in a busy, dynamic and multi-cultural environment.
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Remuneration is competitive.

Please note that the Management Consultant roles could require extensive travel to project sites within and outside Nigeria, based on project requirements.