Consulting Manager

Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm focused on human performance and delivering lasting impact across industries.

As a Manager, you will lead engagements, coach senior associates and analysts, and ensure end-to-end delivery while developing client relationships and driving tangible results in the region.

Qualifications

• Outstanding academic results
• University degree or equivalent experience with a strong emphasis on quantitative skills, especially Engineering, Commerce/Economics & Mathematics/Science
• MBA would be an advantage
• Double degrees and Postgraduate degrees are highly regarded in our firm
• Demonstrated passion for results, with a track record of achieving tough targets under pressure
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including ability to structure and prioritise effort within an area, and ask the right questions to get to root causes
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to coach, influence and build trust with senior managers, and achieve results though managing a team, prioritising the professional development of team members
• Propensity to coach and guide younger consultants to deliver results and work through the line to achieve outcomes
• Strong communication skills, including ability to construct compelling arguments supported by the right facts
• Show an ability to influence and effectively multitask and manage expectations/deadlines
• Demonstrated alignment with Partners in Performance values

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements and ensure delivery across regions
• Coach and manage a team of Senior Associates, Associates and/or Business Analysts
• Drive end-to-end engagement delivery and client collaboration
• Support career development and training programs for staff
• Apply structured consulting approaches to complex commercial problems
• Contribute to a collaborative and individual-focused culture

Skills

Quantitative skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Coaching

Communication skills

Team management

Education

University degree

Engineering/Commerce/Math/Science emphasis

MBA (advantage)

Double/Postgraduate degrees

Job description

Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We’ve got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom.

Visit pip.global, Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture on LinkedIn, or @lifeatpip on Instagram to get to know us better.

Partners in Performance Managers play the critical role of leading our engagements.

They are adaptable and comfortable working in business improvement, strategic sourcing, capital portfolio optimisation and commercial due diligence in a genuinely broad range of clients and industries across the region. Leading a team of Senior Associates, Associates and/or Business Analysts you will ensure engagement delivery and collaboration, coaching and management of the client also.

You won't be handing over your work but will be in control of an end to end process.

Your career development will be supported by your personal Development Leader and our world class training and career development programs.

At the same time as offering the security of a structured approach, our organisation is still of a size where you will be truly treated as an individual, with the opportunity to contribute new ideas and make the best of your entrepreneurial spirit.

You will have consulting experience within a strategy firm, have outstanding logic and analytical skills, the ability to solve complex commercial problems and want to see tangible results from your work a career with Partners in Performance, part of Accenture .

Background and Experience:

• Outstanding academic results
• University degree or equivalent experience with a strong emphasis on quantitative skills, especially:
• Engineering, Commerce/Economics & Mathematics/Science (While we consider candidates from a broad spectrum of degrees, we place a strong emphasis on quantitative skills studied in commerce, engineering and science-based courses)
• MBA would be an advantage
• Double degrees and Postgraduate degrees are highly regarded in our firm
• Demonstrated passion for results, with a track record of achieving tough targets under pressure
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including ability to structure and prioritise effort within an area, and ask the right questions to get to root causes
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to coach, influence and build trust with senior managers, and achieve results though managing a team, prioritising the professional development of team members
• Propensity to coach and guide younger consultants to deliver results and work through the line to achieve outcomes
• Strong communication skills, including ability to construct compelling arguments supported by the right facts
• Show an ability to influence and effectively multitask and manage expectations/deadlines
• Demonstrated alignment with Partners in Performance values