Senior Delivery Manager

Mckinsey & Company, Inc.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking firm as a Senior Delivery Manager, where you will lead impactful transformation projects across various industries. This role offers the chance to work with talented teams, driving business change and delivering sustainable results for clients. You will engage deeply with client businesses, leveraging your extensive experience in consulting and problem-solving to foster successful outcomes. Enjoy a dynamic environment that values flexibility and employee engagement, while contributing to the growth strategy of a company committed to making lasting impacts. If you're passionate about leading teams and driving change, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in consulting with strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience in delivering large-scale business transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead transformation projects ensuring long-term impact delivery.
• Coach and motivate teams to achieve results.

Skills

Problem-solving

Business transformation

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or similar

Job description

Who You'll Work With

You will be based in our Johannesburg office as part of Orphoz, working closely with the client's senior management and their specialist departments. As a subsidiary of McKinsey & Company, Orphoz offers a unique combination of experience, knowledge, network resources, and flexibility.

Within our collaborative community, we deliver business transformation including restructuring, turnaround, post-merger implementation, and more.

We realize strategy and execute it with our clients.

Orphoz integrates the skills, approach, corporate culture, and resources that lead to the success of complex transformation projects and is ideally positioned to smoothly implement strategies designed by McKinsey & Company. Orphoz helps our leading private sector clients achieve one of their biggest challenges: making their business transformation plans really happen.

Our day-to-day work is to support large companies in adapting their operating models to the accelerated changes in their environment by combining agility, sustainable efficiency, and employee engagement.

Overall, we aim to deliver a lasting impact to our clients. With Orphoz, you can expect a varied and exciting working environment, as well as the opportunity to work with a talented and dynamic growing team.

We plan and deliver change projects together with our clients, helping them capture their full potential.

We understand what determines the success of large projects and how to ensure lasting implementation success.

We combine strategic and operational project management with strong execution skills and an understanding of the specific demands of each industry.

We measure our success by achieving the goals we set together with our clients.

Your impact within our firm

You will implement transformation office projects in the private sector, ensuring long-term impact delivery. As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will lead business transformation and people change projects, including restructuring, execution of turnaround, and post-merger implementation, engaging deeply across our clients' businesses. You will work in teams to build the capabilities, systems, and processes needed to deliver bottom-line results and ensure those results are sustained.

You will also lead, coach, and motivate your team of consultants and client employees in each project. Additionally, you will act as a subject matter expert, combining experience with strong problem-solving abilities to derive business insights and solid recommendations for clients.

Another aspect of your impact is contributing to the implementation of our Delivery group's growth strategy. You will take responsibility for the development of the firm and grow in a stimulating, human-centered environment where quality of life at work is valued.

Your qualifications and skills

• 8+ years of professional experience, including some in a consulting environment with high problem-solving ability
• 2+ years of experience delivering and executing large-scale business transformation projects such as turnaround, restructuring, M&A PMI, post-merger implementation, capability building, organizational structure, and setting up a Transformation office
• 3+ years of industry sector expertise in GEM Mining, Financial Services Banking, or Telecommunications
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a financial or similar field, with a strong academic record
• Experience developing business unit strategy and leading large-scale change programs, preferably with strong relationships with senior clients
• Experience leading people and building teams, empowering team members to achieve impact
• Enjoyment of the flexibility and agility required in a consulting environment
• Experience conducting workshops and coaching sessions
• Driven by creating long-lasting impact and leading teams to achieve results