Growth and Innovation- Senior Strategy Manager

48 Mount Street Lower, D02 PT98 Dublin, Irlande

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Company description

Sia Partners is a specialist Management Consulting firm which was initially established in Paris, France in 1999 and has grown into a global firm with over 2,300 employees and annual revenue exceeding $300m. Our culture is strongly orientated towards high-quality expertise and delivering excellent results and outcomes for our clients, which include a wide range of multinational companies. Testament to its success, Sia Partners has shown double-digit growth every year since inception.

Sia Partners is a pioneer of Consulting 4.0, putting us at the forefront of the technology revolution, deploying augmented Consultants capable of leveraging emerging digital technology to enhance and improve their cognitive reasoning, analysis and planning. Supported by Augmented & Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Data Science we empower our clients to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.

With our consultants representing 41 different nationalities, we are a highly diverse team spread across 30 offices in 18 countries. However, using innovative technologies such as our own in-house apps, social networks, and digital tools, we provide a truly integrated global service.

Sia Partners is an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity, inclusion and employee well-being. Our diversity and inclusion networks {local and global) contribute to a pipeline of initiatives to enhance employee quality of life and foster a caring environment to work in.

Employees are encouraged to contribute to these initiatives and drive positive change in the organisation across 5 pillars: Women@Sia, LGBTQ+, Multi-Ethnic, Well-being and Environment.

Job description

As a Senior Strategy Manager in our Growth and Innovation Team in Ireland you’ll join a team working on everything from growth strategy, to IP commercialisation, to sustainability and circularity and even venture building. This group brings together thought leadership, frameworks, and entrepreneurial drive to help our clients innovate, differentiate, and outperform competitors. You will work on projects across all industries and functions including Financial Services, Life Sciences, Energy, Agri, Retail and Utilities. You will be able to leverage the wider Sia Partners capability to deliver breakthrough offers, experiences and new businesses.

Our expectation is for our Senior Managers to have the leadership qualities to grow into future partners in the business. Critical skills include communication, integrity, ability to build relationships, innovation, awareness and driving change.

What you will do as a Senior Strategy Manager

As a Senior Strategy Manager in our growth and innovation team, you will play a central role in developing innovative business solutions in partnership with C-Suite leaders to transform businesses
Lead a team of 3-5 consultants to deliver innovate solutions and solve complex business problems.
Manage day to day engagement with your team and key stakeholders, coaching and building capability in others.
Deliver high quality work on multiple projects, managing all stages of the consulting cycle: assessment, design and implementation.
Ability to articulate customer propositions, build compelling business cases which validate the market opportunity
Create tailor made solutions, leveraging growth and innovation frameworks to deliver sustainable business outcomes
Build effective relationships, manage people, and accomplish challenging goals
Inspire others, building commitment across the team, working closely with others but also autonomously with little direction

Business Development

Managing relationships with client stakeholders, seeking to build strong advocates in support of future work
Creates demand for consulting services in new areas of client organizations through business development efforts, focused on business outcomes
Design, develop and deliver innovative new offers and tools to deliver growth with new and existing clients
Ability to generate new sales across UK&I and Europe

Practice, Methodology & People Development

As a Senior Strategy Manager, you will be responsible for scoping projects, overseeing analysis, and managing the delivery of reports across a range of clients and industries.
As a senior team member, you will be expected to take a leadership role, overseeing small teams to produce client deliverables and coaching Senior Associates and Associates.
Engage in practice management, development of methodologies, people development and proposals to secure new work.
Demonstrating thought leadership through articles, webinars, blogging and other social media

Qualifications

8-10 years+ Management Consulting experience from a recognised, top-tier consulting in one or more of the following industries: Financial Services, Life Sciences, Energy, Agri, Retail and Utilities.
A solid consulting toolkit with polished communication skills and the ability to present compellingly to senior and director level clients
Exceptional problem-solving ability with creative thinking, strong analytics, understanding of market dynamics,
Prior experience leading teams and clients to identify and deliver new areas of growth in major organisations, or venture/innovation companies.
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
Comfort with ambiguity and able to solve open-ended client problems
Demonstrative ability to assess, structure, plan and deliver well-grounded recommendations
Able to lead teams developing strategy, operating models, operational Improvement, piloting new processes, ways of working
Proven business development skills to build and expand the practice
Functional experiences in at least 3 of the following: growth & innovation, operating model design, business strategy, lean / six sigma, business transformation, operational excellence, digital transformation, supply chain, manufacturing, proposition design and implementation.

Additional information

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

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