Managing Consultant at MasterCard Nigeria

Job Ref.: R-104954
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Role Description and Major Responsibilities
Support business development in either follow-on or new sales by assisting with development of sales presentations and proposals; enter and manage in salesforce.com as needed, including:

• Participate in internal and external meetings to scope and price client engagements
• Development of Statement of Work (SOWs) and other sales support materials
• Help present SOWs to mid-level clients and respond to follow up questions
• Keep internal stakeholders informed
• Manage and facilitate internal and client process to execute SOWs and agreement
• Help maintain sales pipeline and reports
• Consulting engagement delivery, interact with mid- to senior- level clients and internal partners. Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire client problem, including:
• Generate hypotheses and independently structure work at a stream level
• Perform sophisticated, hypotheses-driven analysis with broad oversight
• Thoroughly check own work
• Draw well-integrated conclusions and insights
• Construct storylines at the work stream level
• Engage audience with verbal communications and presentations
• Deliver presentations
• Identify engagement risks in stream
• Develop effective working relationships with mid-level client management
• Build peer relationships with key team members to identify opportunities to broaden relationships
• Engage in client communications with client peer group within the framework of the overall communications strategy
• Proactively seek opportunities to support proposal preparation
• Identify client challenges and formulate ideas on opportunities to leverage MasterCard Advisors capabilities, surfacing these to senior Advisors staff
• Actively contributes to Special Interest Groups by participating in creating points of view, articles, methodologies
• Proactively seeks opportunities to lead small projects
• Actively contribute to Knowledge Center and other internal databases as required

Education, Qualifications and Experience  
Education Needed:

• Undergraduate degree required
• MBA or relevant post graduate degree recommended
• Experience and Skills Needed:
• If no graduate degree, 4+ years in a management consulting firm and/or 7+ years in relevant industry
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to work on a team or independently
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Attention to detail

Languages:

• English required / French an asset