Business Development Consultant at Frost & Sullivan

Job description

Key responsibilities:

• Leading the delivery of strategic growth consulting projects
• Overseeing strategic research engagements
• Managing senior client relationships
• Leading and managing project teams
• Supporting business development and business to business sales
• Leading proposal development
• In country Business Development in Kenya with top companies

Key Skills:

• Proven ability to lead key complex projects work steams across a diverse portfolio of clients and industries within the expected delivery excellence parameters
• Strong stakeholder management and client orientation
• Results oriented, driven and proactive
• Good business acumen and commercial orientation
• Strategic thinking and innovation
• Issue-based analysis and problem solving abilities
• People management
• Strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills
• Confident with ability to present and liaise at senior executive level
• Capability analysis, assessment and prioritisation
• Advanced market, strategic and competitor analysis
• Ability to work in a multi- national organisation
• Adaptable to new enviroments
• Ability to work with C - level Executives

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in strategy formulation in a Growth Strategy Consulting environment or Research Firm
• Minumum of 5 years experience with growth strategic research and business analysis in a Consulting environment or Research Firm
• Minmimum of 5 years experience with advisory and delivery roles in large scale strategic project / programme management
• Minimum of 3 years experience with business transformation and/or change management projects
• Must be physicaly based in Kenya or Tanzania
• Background in Research with excellent excel and powerpoint skills
• Talent Management
• Project experience across multiple industries, inter alia:
• Energy and Environmental
• Chemicals, Manufcaturing and Foods
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Automotive and Transportation
• Finanical Services

Qualifications:

• Minimum qualification an undergraduate degree from a reputable institution and post graduate qualification in the following disciplines : business administration, commerce, engineering or the sciences and environmental sciences, and research from a reputable institution
• Project management (PM-Bok, Prince 2, MSP)
• Process optimisation (Lean Six Sigma)

If you do not receive a response within two weeks of your application, please consider your application as unsuccessful.