Senior Managing Consultant, Services Business Development-R-238290 at MasterCard

Role

• Drive business development efforts for MasterCard Advisors Business for clients across Anglophone and Francophone West Africa
• Deliver against sales targets for existing accounts and/or contribute to Mastercard deal bids
• Capture senior and mid-level clients’ implicit business needs in addition to articulated requests, and identify most critical aspects of the problem
• Translate objectives into key hypotheses and structure work for large/complex projects or ill-defined problems
• Contribute to formal and informal pitches, from “storyboarding” through face-to-face presentation
• Create succinct, persuasive written materials tailored to the “level” of the audience
• Provide input into project delivery, quickly identifying shortcomings in projects and take remedial action
• Manage complete capture of assignment knowledge and drive to ensure it is available firm-wide (knowledge management)
• Drive thought leadership to the development of intellectual capital, point of views, articles, and blogs
• Leverage deep knowledge of all the Mastercard Advisors capabilities and how they fit together to offer new innovative solutions

All About You

Education

• Undergraduate degree required
• MBA or relevant post graduate degree is an advantage

Experience And Skills

• Experience in top management consulting firms or experience as an ‘internal consultant’/change leader in a relevant industry
• Knowledge of payments market, trends and opportunities
• Demonstrates the ability to initiate, develop, and close a sale
• Strong presentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both English & French
• Excellent analytical skills, including ability to frame the customer’s opportunity in financial terms (i.e. value quantification)
• Ability to think from the perspective of the customer
• Ability to gain consensus with others and coordinate team of consultants and subject matter experts around goal
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience of working extensively in West Africa is an advantage