Main duties and responsibilities
- To develop and shape complex engagements
- Provide leadership at programme / engagement level for Arundel and client teams
- Some element of business development based on experience
Skills & Experience
Essential skills, knowledge and experience:
- Guide: 10+ years experience in a combination of consultancy and business
- Degree, ideally in a numerate subject
- Sector exposure should include one or more of those indicated
- Evidence of having performed a team lead role either in line management or within a consulting organisation
- A background in IT systems implementations/project delivery/project management
- Understanding of business accounting, financial principles and how to create value
- Definition, planning and/or delivery of strategic value creating business projects or transformation initiatives
For more senior candidates:
- Business Development in a consultancy or outsourcing business
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience (some of):
- Business case development and benefit delivery tracking
- Strategic procurement
- Involvement in structuring outsourcing deals (AO, BPO or IT)
- Programme Management
- Supply chain (manufacturing footprint, warehousing & logistics CoG modelling etc, supply chain planning, strategic procurement and inbound supply)
- Commercial (product profitability analysis, range review and optimisation, space planning and assortment (for retail), portfolio simplification
- Marketing brand and product marketing (market analysis and sizing, competitor analysis, planning for both traditional and online campaigns)
- M&A, acquisition/deal process, synergy identification and capture, acquisition integration projects
- Business and systems transformation (understanding of operating models, their purpose, design and implementation process, change management)
Essential personal qualities:
- Good communicator, able to engage with and gain the confidence of clients
- Structured, organised
- Ability to work with limited supervision and under some pressure
- Flexibility – able to turn his or her hand to many things
- Willing to travel
- Driven, entrepreneurial, commercially aware
- Curious, must enjoy learning & problem solving, will need to be confident and determined
