Senior Consultant at Aquarian Consult

Aquarian Consult Limited- a twenty first century (21st) Century blue-chip organization committed to providing Strategic Business Solutions that will add value and create wealth for clients.

Aquarian Consult is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Consultant

Job Code: AJ06-004
Location: Abuja

Job Description

• Subject firm is expanding and is hiring. We are seeking a senior consultant with 4-8 years of experience, within management consulting.
• The candidate will leverage their training, creativity and experience to best solve business issues for our clients. It is critical that the candidate is comfortable working in a collaborative, unstructured environment.
• In this position you will work alongside with other experienced consultants in a project-based environment to help our clients execute their strategies and improve business operations.
• Experience within various industries such as Pharmaceutical, Health Care, Communications/Media or Financial Services is helpful.

Position Specifications

• Support the development of strategies for organizations seeking to modernize their business processes and recommend practical solutions that help reduce costs and improve business operations.
• Document the current state, support the identification of issues, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement. Support the development of creative strategies to help our clients achieve business success.
• Design and improve business processes across a variety of functional areas.
• Understand and identify engagement issues. Having sound judgment to know when to elevate these issues to senior leadership and creating timely solutions and the necessary resolution of these issues.
• Prioritize and manage competing engagement demands; Track personal commitment to each engagement and report conflicts to senior management.
• Develop short-term and long-term implementation strategies addressing a variety of client operational needs.
• Help support the growth of the local office including business development, proposals, interviewing, community involvement and any practice building activities.
• Develop a wide array of client deliverables including, but not limited to, requirements documents, functional design documents, status reports, client presentations, etc.

Desired Skills and Experience
Position Requirements:

• Minimum of 4 years' experience with national consulting firms participating in the delivery of complex projects and the creation of professional client deliverables.
• Exceptional writing and presentation development skills. Adept at conveying, both in writing and through presentations, an approach based solution.
• Creative problem solver able to analyze business process and technology issues. Through your experience, training and ability to conduct research, able to offer practical and actionable guidance.
• Comfortable engaging executives and developing personal relationships with clients and able to naturally empathize with their needs.
• Project Management Professional, Blue Ocean, Purple Cow, Six-Sigma and/or Lean Process trained a plus.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to lead/project manage client engagement activities.
• Ability to support teams though solution design and the presentation of final findings to senior executives.
• Offer creative, practical guidance while working in a team environment.
• Results driven with the ability to manage tasks through completion.
• Collaborative skills.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Business or Management Information Systems.
• Masters' Degree a plus.

Candidate Profile:

• Relevant degree (e.g. political science, human resources, economics, social science, marketing or communication).
• Excellent knowledge of English language; further knowledge of other languages would be an advantage.
• Initial NGO experience and good overview of international NGO networks.
• Excellent writing, communication and intercultural skills -as well as experience abroad.
• Very good research skills and the ability to become acquainted easily with new topic areas.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and client orientation.
• Confident appearance and an ability to manage relationships at senior, executive and board level.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Creative and smart personality.
• Passion for civil society and networking.
• Ease with technology, databases, and online teamwork platforms.

Application Closing Date
Not Stated.

Method of Application
Qualified candidates should send their CV's and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the job code as subject of the email.