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Practice Overview

Ankura’s Strategy and Performance practice accelerates change and value creation for Fortune 500 and private equity backed growth businesses. Working across industries, we drive transformational change across many dimensions – people, culture, process, operations, and technology.  We bring proprietary methodologies to translate strategies into results and we have a proven track record of accelerating results and de-risking strategic initiatives.

Role Overview

Ankura Strategy & Performance Senior Associates are hands on leaders of small projects and key contributors to large or complex project teams, with regular guidance from their Managing Director, as well as more experienced consultant engagement leaders and mentors. They typically have 4-7 years of relevant business and project experience, or a combination of experience and post-graduate education. The Senior Associate is exposed to a broad range of opportunities and assumes more challenging projects and work tasks as their experience grows.

Responsibilities:

Conducts relevant research, analysis, and synthesizes findings into compelling conclusions and recommendations

Develops high-quality deliverables that leverage qualitative, quantitative, and visual elements

Leads workstreams and participates in large or complex projects

Effectively executes and manages assigned scope using leading practice and/or “right-sized” methods, tools, and approaches

Proactively identifies and resolves issues critical to the overall project success

Creates and maintains key documentation throughout the project, including project plans, status reports issue/risk logs, decision history, business process diagrams, communication plans and deliverables, etc.

Conducts interviews and participates in work sessions to analyze current and design future business processes

Manages conflicts and escalates critical issues to the project lead or business sponsor

Facilitates effective communication to ensure all relevant team members and stakeholders are well informed

Flexibly contributes in various project roles, as necessary, with project sponsor approval

Requirements:

Key Characteristics:

Clear and concise verbal, written, and presentation communications

Vocal and demonstrates excellent active listening skills

High level of organization and ability to prioritize tasks

Detail orientation, but with the ability to visualize and communicate the “big picture”

Adaptive to different working environments

Flexibility to wear multiple “hats” on a project

Team-oriented with a desire to understand and leverage multiple points of view

Ability to develop relationships with client team members at all levels and across organizations

Willing to admit mistakes, learn from them, and ask for help

Analytical; enjoys research and problem-solving

Ability to informally influence others in a positive way

Growth minded with a strong desire to improve and continuously learn

Action-oriented with a professional demeanor and behavior

Joy in helping our teams, our firm, our clients, and our communities to be their best

Travel (by air and car) as required depending on engagement mix. Although typically more travel is required at the beginning of the engagement and then becomes intermittent throughout the engagement lifecycle.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Graduate degree in business, technical or analytical concentration a plus

4-7 years of relevant business experience

Experience participating in business projects

Project management and consulting experience

Experience or education in information systems a plus

Advanced proficiency with MS Office tools, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio, with demonstrated ability to efficiently produce crisp, professional documents

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