Senior Consultant, Business Development and Innovation at Universal Human Resource Consult

Job Description

• As part of their exciting transformation process, seeks a dynamic, passionate, and experienced individual as a Senior Consultant to head their Abuja Business.
• This Senior consultant's primary focus will involve developing, introducing and executing new innovations and strategies that facilitate the growth of the business and managing a team to drive efficient and effective business processes to support operations.

Functional Responsibilities

• Actively drive business development, generate leads, close transactions, and follow up in Abuja and Northern region.
• Research, forecast and evaluate the effects of public policy using public sources, political intelligence and personal contacts
• Research and analyze government policies and implementation for critical direction on briefs and leads.
• Create strong relationship and data gathering of key stakeholders for possible contacts and build up.
• Develop close partnerships with engaged consultants and understand the market namely legislative and policy direction, stakeholders’ management and external relations.
• Report to the Lead Partner.

Key Performance Indicators/ Performance Goals:

• Number of strategic initiatives implemented.
• Level of operational efficiency.
• Revenue growth.
• Number of new products/services deployed.

Job Specifications

• Minimum of HND or Bachelor's Degree, in any relevant Social Science related field.
• MBA or a relevant professional certificate will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 7 years working experience.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing strategic initiatives.

Key Competencies Requirements:

• Good knowledge of the business and the industry.
• Ability to develop strategic partnerships and build networks/relationships to improve visibility for the business.
• Creative talents with an ability to initiate new projects.
• Delegation and supervisory skills.
• Keen networker with an ability to build and maintain large
• numbers of industry and media contacts.
• Team player with leadership and management skills within a business environment with high level of integrity.
• Project management talents with an aptitude for organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to analyze complex data and interpret it for a range of audiences.
• Business acumen with the ability to communicate across departments and represent the company’s services at a senior level.
• Commercial awareness/interest.
• Ability to understand new issues quickly and make the right decisions.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Basic understanding of business management.
• In-depth knowledge of consultancy best practices and Standards.

Managerial:

• Time management and organizational skills.
• Very organized and efficient.
• Proven ability in leading and developing a team.
• Experience in managing budgets.
• Driven, ambitious and willing to contribute to the business.

Behavioural:

• Bold and result-driven.
• Passionate, self-motivated, responsible, and hardworking individual.
• Reliable and resilient.
• Good interpersonal communication skills.
• Must be very perceptive, ambitious, focused and possess ability to command respect.