Posted: 9/12/2013
Position Code: S904
Director Financial Services Strategy Practice, Global Consulting Firm
Line of Service: Advisory Industry, Financial Services
Knowledge Preferred:
Demonstrates
proven expertise of the business strategy consulting field with experience
acquired at large, global, complex organizations, and/or successful,
fast-growing innovators.
Demonstrates
proven extensive consulting expertise in core, enterprise-wide business issues
from achieving rapid growth to defining a path to cost leadership, while
achieving it through an effective management of all strategic risk elements.
This includes extensive knowledge in one or more of the following specific
focus areas:
Corporate
and Business Unit Strategy: Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management;
Innovation
Strategy: Market Entry, Business Design, Growth and Social Strategies;
Deals
Strategy: All front-end of Merger and Acquisition Strategy, including, but not
limited to Inorganic Growth Strategy, Corporate Development/Venturing, Target
Identification and Prioritization, and Commercial Due Diligence;
Enterprise
Profitability: Cost Leadership Strategy, ROI Improvement, Ruthless Competitor
Strategy.
MBA,
Masters or Doctorate strongly preferred.
Consulting
experience with a top tier strategy consulting firm is preferred.
Skills Preferred:
Demonstrates
proven expert-level ability to engage successfully in complex, broad and often
ill-defined business issues through deep understanding of both the particular
enterprise and industry-specific issues.
Demonstrates
proven expert-level ability and success to begin with a strong vision, and lead
a team to a successful conclusion through problem solving global,
enterprise-wide strategy issues, with a clear line of sight to implementation
activities.
Demonstrates
proven expert-level ability and success to deliver impact to the client through
effective listening and strong personal leadership that inspires the rest of
the team, fosters productive teamwork, help develop and grow team members
throughout the course of the engagement while developing lasting client
relationships.
Demonstrates
proven expert-level abilities in thought leadership, new business development
in the strategy field, including client lead generation, maturation, proposal
development, and close.
Proven
expert-level abilities and track record of managing and delivering significant
business results through delivering strategic insights on the ability of a
business to sustain growth and profit and assessing transformational
improvements across operational settings while utilizing strategic and creative
thinking, individual initiative and the following skills:
-Developing
a business vision and leading complex projects while functioning as a trusted
advisor at the highest levels of client organizations;
-Identifying
and addressing client needs: build, maintain, and utilize networks of client
relationships; manage resource requirements, project workflow and budgets;
-Communicating
effectively in written and verbal formats to various audiences with the
effective use of compelling visuals;
-Conducting
and directing a broad range quantitative and qualitative research, applying the
full suite of both primary and secondary analytical approaches from operational
benchmarking to strategic voice of the customer.
Location:
NY-New York
Additional:
Travel Requirements 80-100%