Saturday, November 14, 2015

Strategy Director

Strategy Director
To be based in East Africa, this multinational client seeks the expertise of a Strategy Director with previous financial strategy consulting experience to join their team.
Directors are expected to contribute to the firm’s growth and development in a variety of ways, including:
Problem Solving
  • Act as an advanced specialist performing complex duties requiring expert knowledge
  • Has advanced technical and practical knowledge of functional area and uses this knowledge in delivering on the client requirements
  • Provides authoritative advice related to functional area to leaders and clients
  • May be responsible for developing and/or marketing new products or services
  • Responsible for lead generation, submission of proposals and closing deals
  • Ownership of delivery on tier 1 clients and winning business for tier 2 clients.
  • Has direct responsibility for management of a team/teams
  • Assesses performance and determines learning and development requirements of team
  • Work consists primarily of management of the delivery of team to achieve strategic objectives and projects in support of longer term service line goals
  • As much work is assigned/delegated to others – skilful planning is required
  • Approves solutions to very complex problems and formulates recommendations on course of action that may have a significant impact on the service line/client
Decision Making
  • Makes decisions of a complex nature related to area of expertise
  • Exercises a significant amount of judgement, guided by general policy and business objectives in identifying, adapting and applying procedures and approaches to address unusual situations and resolve conflicts
  • Has discretion to define solutions within broad framework of policy, guiding principles and best practice
Leadership
  • Establishes authority, respect and rapport with employee team in order to build enthusiasm for realising the service line strategies and values
  • Recommends promotion and/or transfer of direct reports and recruits direct reports
  • Ensures all employees in team receive necessary coaching as required
  • Identifies personal development needs and jointly sets personal plan with team leader
  • Ensures that personal plans are in place for team members and that the performance assessment process is applied throughout the department
Must have:
  • Experience with a tier-one professional services firm
  • A minimum of 15 years consulting experience
  • Experience and deep knowledge of working in industry
  • A minimum of 15 year industry experience advantageous
Key Responsibilities:
  • Aggressive client development
  • Bold play eminence creation
  • Industry capability development
Desired Skills and Experience
Must in addition possess the following:
  • Strong relationship and team development abilities
  • Attention to detail
  • The drive to be the standard of excellence, which is crucial to performance in this position
  • Completed undergraduate degree with outstanding academic credentials preferably engineering or equivalent
  • A relevant B. Degree with a MBA being beneficial
  • A postgraduate qualification, 10 years of experience or the equivalent combination of experience and education.
  • A proven track record of leading and delivering complex projects
  • Extensive experience in leading client relationships and client–facing advisory projects,
  • The proven ability to generate significant sales from clients and develop business through leading bids, proposals and negotiations
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
  • Eagerness to mentor junior staff
  • Facilitation, communication and data analysis skills
  • Ability to travel
  • Responsible for lead generation, submission of proposals and closing deals
  • Act as an advanced specialist performing complex duties requiring expert knowledge
  • Advanced technical and practical knowledge of functional area and ability to use this knowledge in delivering on the client requirements
  • Provide authoritative advice related to functional area to leaders and clients
  • Develop and/or market new products or services
  • Ownership of delivery on tier 1 clients and winning business for tier 2 clients
  • Direct responsibility for management of a team/teams
  • Assesses performance and determines learning and development requirements of team
  • Work consists primarily of management of the delivery of team to achieve strategic objectives and projects in support of longer term service line goals
  • Skillful planning and delegation
  • Experienced with project problem diagnosis, solution development, client communications, facilitation of decision making, documentation, managing client expectations and team leadership
Should you be interested in this opportunity, please email your updated CV to nolene.vandermerwe@gijima.com.
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