Managing Consultant at MasterCard Nigeria
Mastercard - We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Managing Consultant
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:
- 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
- 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
Education, Qualifications and Experience
Education Needed:
- 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
- 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
Languages:
- English required / French an asset