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.