Description
Senior Business Consultants work within the Blue Slate project teams, partnering with clients to design, implement and lead value-based solutions to complex business problems. They also support the sales process by delivering with excellence and identifying future opportunities within clients. Senior Business Consultants mentor others on the consulting team, while identifying, sharing, and reusing industry and discipline best practices. They often work across more than one project or client and may be responsible for leading programs. At the senior level, consultants possess deep business understanding and key industry knowledge necessary to lead and execute on client projects and deliverables with excellence.
The role may require up to 80% travel. Our consultants are solution and client driven, and therefore may work at the client's site from Monday through Thursday. For some clients or projects, or portions of projects, this may not be a requirement.
Specific Activities and Responsibilities
- Build relationships with clients and prospects
- Effectively develops and manages important professional relationships and complex interactions with high-level persons in a client setting
- Lead project teams, plan and manage programs / projects
- Expertly perform business analysis in the following disciplines:
- Solution design and ROI-based, multi-generational program planning
- Process definition, analysis, and re-engineering
- Market research and analysis
- Tool / solution analysis and selection
- Requirements definition and rules harvesting
- Builds professional rapport and acts as professional guide to both with the internal team and client team
- Ability to design value based solutions, including building out estimates and effort, and manage to that plan
- Champion and drive quality throughout the project lifecycle
- Identify, share, and reuse best practices to promote growth of team, quality of work product and collective knowledge
- Uses a mixture of analysis, ‘business smarts’, experience, and judgment to make high-level decisions that impact others
- Participate in pre-sales consulting, solution design, and project planning
Skills and experience required
- BS/BA degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Sciences, or related field
- 7+ years work experience in a related industry (Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services, and/or Consulting)
- Understanding of the application of current technologies (BPM, SOA, etc.) to business problems
- Ability to plan, manage, and lead projects
- Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Effective team member and leader, capable of self-directed work
- Passion for excellence and an entrepreneurial spirit
- Must be willing to travel 80 to 100%
Skills and experience preferred
- MBA, MIS, CPA, or other advanced degree
- Quality (e.g. Six Sigma) trained/certified
- 2-5 years consulting experience, preferably in Healthcare, Insurance, or Financial Services
- Prior experience with business process management technologies (workflow, business rules, business intelligence, etc.)
