Business Consultant - Contract only (6 weeks), Oxfordshire

Business Consultant – Contract only (6 weeks), Oxfordshire

Client:

Synergetics

Location:

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Consulting

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

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Job Description:

Synergetics is currently seeking a consultant (contract only) who is in the UK, willing to travel, and has five to seven years consulting experience . This consultant will have experience with value stream mapping, process mapping, excellent understanding of salary spend vs. non-salary spend, and heavy analysis of data utilizing Excel (must be advanced in Excel) . This contract is projected to start immediately and will last for 3 months.
At Synergetics, we know what it takes to be successful in our line of work – our people! Our foundation as an implementation consulting firm is built upon a core set of values and business ethics – honesty, authenticity, respectfulness, trust, and teamwork. We embody them in everything we do.
Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Engage with clients to understand the current state of their business and establish positive relationships that build credibility.
2. Gather and analyze relevant data, conduct client interviews, and visit facilities to observe operations first-hand.
3. Identify and catalog problems, challenges, risks, and opportunities.
4. Develop performance metrics and construct reports that effectively represent current state and desired future state.
5. Develop and evaluate alternative strategies to achieve specific savings objectives.
6. Create and utilize workplans to effectively prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks with a high sense of urgency across one or more workstreams.
7. Create reports and presentations for use in communicating findings to client management and implementation teams; present “the story”.
8. Work with clients to define requirements for tools, systems, and processes; recommend design improvements; then, provide implementation oversight including creating documentation, delivering training, and coaching.
9. Work in a hands-on mode until potential alternatives are exhausted and future state procedural workstreams are in place, tested, and fully functioning.
10. Interact with peers to foster your support network, and empower career development.

Required Experience and Skills

1. 5 to 7 years of management consulting, professional services, and industry experience.
2. Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify data gaps and risks, develop sound conclusions, and create implementable and sustainable recommendations for improvement.
3. An entrepreneurial mindset to collaborate with project team members/clients to design and implement effective solutions to complex business problems; continuously evaluate to uncover new opportunities.
4. Exemplary skills across Microsoft Office including Excel data analysis, statistical review, and modeling, and Power Bi.
5. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to create communications that “tell the story”, and effectively deliver presentations of content in a customer-facing forum.

Education

1. Bachelor’s degree in business, Operations Management, IT.
2. Master’s degree preferred.

Job Location
Synergetics works with clients across different locations. Travel to client site will be required based on your assignment and contract specifications. #J-18808-Ljbffr