Description:
The successful candidate for this position will be a dynamic, experienced, and engaged individual with strong business acumen who enjoys the challenge of working for high-profile, demanding clients together within a growing team. Candidates are expected to be client-focused and should have a proven track record in building client relationships and leading teams and work streams. Experience managing large-scale projects and preparing management consulting deliverables is mandatory.
- The following qualifications are required for consideration:
- 5-8 years of experience in management or sustainability consulting with a focus on project and client management
- Excellent written skills, including client communications and presentations
- Excellent verbal communication skills for representing the firm through public speaking engagements, meeting facilitation, and colleague engagement
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and a leading project management software
- Experience in strategy development, governance, program development and implementation
- Ability to travel for client engagements, business development, and industry forums
Successful candidates will:
- Show self-initiative and the ability to work well independently and lead teams
- Think critically, grasp new concepts quickly, and distill information into practical insights
- Have experience working on complex and high-budget projects and implementing and tracking progress against targets
- Be responsive to clients with time-sensitive and high frequency demands
- Proactively communicate project statuses effectively under tight deadlines
- Demonstrate an ability to build cross-functional relationships for collaborative efforts with clients, partner organizations and colleagues
- Embrace new ideas, perspectives, points of view and ways of working with an open mind and intrinsic curiosity
- Possess strong analytical skills and the ability to work with quantitative data and information
- Demonstrate experience developing and delivering strategy and governance work, with experience managing, overseeing, and ensuring the quality of data collection, management and analysis
- Have a keen understanding of relevant Sustainability/ESG issues, and related trends in business and management practices