Operational Excellence – Senior Consultant

Grant Thornton – Business Consulting - Operational Excellence – Senior Consultant

Grant Thornton is Ireland’s fastest growing professional services firm, delivering innovative solutions to clients across the country. Our Business Consulting unit brings industry specific expertise to support clients in the execution and delivery of their business strategy. At Grant Thornton our focus is on people; both building deep client relationships and investing in our staff to help them realise their potential and achieve their ambitions.

Opportunities

Grant Thornton’s Business Consulting unit has a number of career opportunities for Senior Consultants to work within the Operational Excellence service line to meet growing market demands for our expertise.

These are challenging and fulfilling opportunities with the potential to develop your skills significantly, across a range of sectors. Opportunities exist across all five operational excellence pillars:

• Organisational and Functional Reviews
• Business Process Management
• Target Operating Model Reviews and Redesign
• Business Transformation
• Supply Chain Management

Role Description

As a Senior Consultant within the Operational Excellence Service line, you will be required to play a lead role in managing delivery and engaging with clients to deliver operational excellence solutions to our broad range of clients across public and private sector organisations in Energy & Utilities, Healthcare, Agrifood, Life Sciences, Retail, Transport, and other sectors.

A strong client focus and commitment to delivering results in a fast-paced environment is necessary. You will have proven expertise in the delivery of one or several of the Operational Excellence pillars. This is an excellent opportunity for ambitious and driven candidates to join a progressive, people centric, firm and build on their existing experience to forge a successful career in Management Consulting supported by Grant Thornton’s ongoing development and training Academy.

Responsibilities

Contingent on your area of expertise, you will have an opportunity to:

• Work directly with clients to lead out on the delivery of Operational Excellence services
• Lead Grant Thornton teams during the delivery phase of client engagements
• Build the skills and competencies of more junior members of the Operational Excellence team
• Establish deep, enduring client relationships through continuously meeting their requirements
• Grow the overall Operational Excellence service line offering
• Work cross functionally with members of the wider Business Consulting team to deliver shared solutions to our clients needs
• Communicate effectively with Directors and Partners to actively manage the engagement direction, challenges, opportunities and to identify new business opportunities
• Share market, regulatory and competitor knowledge with peers and contribute to Thought Leadership and Business Proposals

Skills and attributes

Core Skills

• Leadership and Collaboration: Ability to manage teams across multiple workstreams, demonstrating passion to develop others and work together towards a common goal
• Communication: Facilitating workshops, running senior management meetings and presenting to clients. Ability to distil large amounts of information into succinct messages. Strong proficiency in structuring and delivering presentations
• Structured Thinking: Ability to break problems into their constituent parts and develop solutions in a coherent and structured manner
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to take a ‘big picture’ view to understand the wider context and consider all factors and influences so as to make informed choices
• Attitude: Strong work ethic, client focus, proactive attitude to issue resolution, managing deadlines and delivering excellence
• Business Acumen: Genuine hunger for work, understanding of the Financial Services environment and drive to identify business opportunities

Key Competencies

You will have demonstrated experience in the provision of one or more of the following services

Organisational and Functional Reviews

• The design, execution and delivery of organisational and functional review engagements on behalf of clients
• The provision of recommendations based on research and analysis (primary and secondary, quantitative and qualitative) to support the attainment of strategic goals
• The drafting of organisational and/or functional review reports for presentation to clients

Business Process Management

• The design, execution and delivery of Business Process Management Services on behalf of clients
• The provision of business process improvement recommendations and/or the implementation of process improvement (including automation) initiatives
• The management of process workstreams within large scale business transformation engagements

Target Operating Model Reviews and Redesigns

• The design, execution and delivery of target operating model engagements on behalf of clients
• The provision of target operating model recommendations based on analysis, research and benchmarking
• The implementation of target operating model transformations, including leading out of workstreams or programmes of work specific to operating model improvements

Business Transformation

• The design, execution and delivery of business transformation engagements on behalf of clients
• The provision of support to major business transformation engagements across the public and private sector
• The implementation of business transformation engagements through leading and or supporting the leadership of workstreams related to business process management, and/or target operating model improvements

Supply Chain Management

• Supply Chain (CIPS or APICS accredited qualification)
• The design, execution and delivery of supply chain management engagements on behalf of clients
• The provision of recommendations based on research and analysis (primary and secondary, quantitative and qualitative) to support the attainment of strategic goals
• The drafting of supply chain management reports setting out analysis, recommendations, and roadmaps for implementation for presentation to clients

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of two years' plus post-qualification experience is required
• Prior management consulting experience is beneficial
• Experience in the following industry sectors will be of specific interest: energy / utilities, life sciences, telecoms, transport, financial services, healthcare, or food and beverage
• Project management/PRINCE 2 project support (MS Project, Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM) are beneficial
• Lean Six Sigma qualifications are beneficial
• Strong Microsoft Project skills, along with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, MS Project) skills are a pre requisite
• The ability to develop good working relationships is critical
• The ability to effectively balance a number of tasks, work to deadlines, and produce quality deliverables

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