Nextzon is an emerging market management consulting and enterprise development company, inspired by a collective mission of building and transforming business enterprises for phenomenal success. Our vision is to be a leading venturing company and a renowned consulting firm.
Our clients include start-ups, small and medium enterprises as well as multinationals and industry leaders in key sectors of the Nigerian and African economies.
We are on the lookout for an ambitious Management Consultant to join our passionate team at Nextzon Business Services Limited in Lagos.
Positions:
- Senior Consultants
- Consultants
Growing your career as a full-time Management Consultant is a fantastic opportunity to learn new skills.
Apply for any of the positions listed above today if you have a strong adaptability, teamwork, and the right personality for the job.
The responsibilities will include:
- Support clients with developing, planning and implementing their strategy at corporate and board level, ensuring articulated initiatives are practicable and aligned to the company’s vision
- Provide business and client advisory services in specialized areas such as strategy, governance, organizational design, strategic operations, finance, risk management, digital transformation, information technology, organizational change management, human resources, and so on.
- Help clients define and deliver transformational initiatives across the organization
- Outline the scope of the work and identify and map out schedules, milestones, and resources needed to meet project objectives.
- Work collaboratively with clients to shape their future by addressing their most complex and critical growth issues
- Support with the facilitation of client strategy discussions using collaborative methods such as design thinking and agile methodology
- Present insights and recommendations enabled by strategic thinking, technical knowledge and strong communication skills
- Lead work stream and analysis on engagements and take responsibility for small teams when required
- Contribute to thought leadership and knowledge management.
- Conduct extensive research and analysis before offering an unbiased opinion and perspective on difficult issues and complex business problems and issues.
- Directly collaborate with senior leadership and internal project teams to provide hands-on project management and leadership consulting, including project implementation, execution, and measurement.
- Provide strategies for increasing business performance, creating value, and maximizing growth.
- Developing proof-of-concept, business plans and financial models
- prepare business proposals and presentations
- Evaluate existing systems and procedures and make recommendations for improvement where necessary.
- Implement recommendations or solutions and ensure the client receives the necessary assistance to carry it all out
Qualifications & Experience:
- A first degree from a recognized university
- A Post-Graduate degree will be advantageous.
- Any project management certification is an advantage.
- Applicants must have at least four years’ experience in consulting, advisory or significant experience in one or more of the following industries: financial services, FMCG Fintech and telecoms.
- Prior experience in strategy consulting
- Previous and current experience in a management consulting firm will be advantageous.
- Track record of collaboration with senior executives. Must be comfortable delivering formal presentations to management.
- Strong analytical skills and a high capacity for conceptual thinking. Must be able to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment.
- Proven ability to manage client engagements, client relationships, and provide thought leadership to teams, owning the responsibility for the quality of engagements.
- A combination of management and hands-on delivery experience is critical.
General Skills/Abilities for roles:
- Highly organized, with the ability to work well under pressure
- A strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
- Capability to create cutting-edge business models, frameworks for analysis, and long-term business strategies. Must be able to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment where inductive rather than deductive reasoning is the norm.
- Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and interpersonal skills
- Good listener and communicator, with sensitivity to cultural communication skills
- Appreciation of the need for confidentiality and integrity
- Well-developed computer skills
- Effectively work as a team member and independently, with a high-level of self-motivation
- Comfortable working in a busy, dynamic and multi-cultural environment.
- Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment.
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
- Excellent leadership and management skills
Remuneration is competitive.
Please note that the Management Consultant roles could require extensive travel within and outside Nigeria, based on project requirements.
How to Apply
If you want to be a part of our team, kindly click on the link below and apply.
https://forms.gle/N8z32DzEzxDrpTtm7
Only those who meet the above criteria need to apply.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in due course