Management Consultant

Project Overview And Role

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Purpose of Position
  
  

As a key member of the team, Consultant develops relationships with client team members. Depending on allocations and the client needs, Consultant may be managing others on a project. They are expected to manage themselves – time allocation, learning new things, maintaining project timelines and budget for areas that they control.

• Primary responsibilities
  
  

The Primary Responsibilities Of The Consultant Are To

• Understand client or external data and present analysis to project team
• Support senior members in clearly articulating client needs.
• Participate in designing solutions for solving client issues
• Conduct independent data gathering activities
• Design qualitative and quantitative research tools
• Analyse market and client data sets to create insight
• Craft day-to-day client team communication
• Draft client deliverables, presentation and proposal materials
• Reporting requirements
  
  

The role reports to the Manager or above. Reporting requirements include:

• Attendance of all team meetings
• Participate in regular project status updates with the project manager on client engagements
• Regular updates with line manager
• Job Description –Consultant Job description 2 / 3
• Timely submission of assigned reports/deliverables
• Semi-Annual updates on the status of Key Result Areas, as well as any other important areas of concern
• Relationships
  
  

Key relationships will be both with their manager, project managers as well as the wider Consulting team

When working on a particular client project, there will be a designated project manager who the consultant will be required to liaise closely with throughout the duration of the project

• Authority levels
  
  

The role carries a degree of autonomy with appropriate consultation. The role is required to:

• Analyse and make sound recommendations to the line manager
• Contribute to process improvement through innovative and cost-effective proposals/ideas/suggestions
• Work autonomously to identify key issues in the client’s internal and external environment and apply relevant Palladium knowledge and practises to identify and develop analysis and recommendations/deliverables
• Identify opportunities to provide constructive feedback with the objective of contributing to the personal and professional development of both self and team members
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Minimum Education and experience required
• Bachelor’s degree from a leading institution
• Relevant consulting experience
• Excellent MS Office skills
• Good written and verbal business communications skills
• Familiarity with the Kaplan/Norton framework and/or other performance management methodology is highly desirable
• Key Skills required
• Outstanding facilitation skills, memorable in-person presentation abilities
• Results driven, persistent, flexible, and persuasive
• Self-starter/pro-active, strong entrepreneurial spirit
• Willingness to travel on a weekly basis
• Demonstrate ability to design a good PowerPoint slide as well as an entire presentation
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Core competencies
• Adaptability: Supports change process, promotes change agenda, supports others to adapt, supports others in new ways of working, applies learning.
• Critical Thinking: Challenges own ideas, investigate issues, identifies trends and underlying connections, identifies and analyses relationships between situations, applies information outside the immediate.
• People and Relationships: Encourages others understand value of diversity and inclusion, understands others’ position and adapts personal style, encourages others to acknowledge team members’ contribution, encourages self-development with team members, seeks participation and contribution from direct working relationships.
• Self-development and Adaptability: Seeks and applied development opportunities relevant to team, probes understanding of feedback, evaluates quality of work, delivers on commitments outside the team, recognises and identifies opportunities.
• Business Acumen: Align work focus with organization objectives, recognises market impacts and business drivers, consults to understand client needs, optimises resources, applies principles of stewardship.
  
  

Company Overview

About Palladium - Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people's lives.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at [email protected] and we will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.