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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 Directors lead large or complex projects, with regular guidance from their Managing Director. They collaborate with others to solve business problems and develop close relationships with clients. They typically have seven or more years of relevant business and consulting experience and have demonstrated exceptional consulting competencies through previous employment performance.

Responsibilities:

Leads large or complex projects

Reviews and ensures quality deliverables

Manages project scope, vision, objectives, schedule, budget, resources, vendors, dependencies, issues, risks, and change using best practice and/or “right-sized” methods, tools, and approaches

Develops a comprehensive project plan for meeting the objectives within scope, including people, process, and technology components of the initiative

Proactively manages, monitors, and adjusts plan throughout the project

Maintains key documentation throughout the project, including status reports, issue/risk logs, decision history, business process diagrams, etc

Gathers, elicits, documents, and analyzes business requirements

Maps and analyzes current and future business processes

Researches and analyzes potential solution approaches

Continually analyzes business issues and facilitates resolution to keep the project on target

Manages conflicts and escalates critical issues to the project sponsor

Creates and implements a communications plan to keep team members, stakeholders, and sponsors up to date on project status and issues

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

Requirements:

Key Characteristics:

Clear and concise verbal and written communications

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

Ability to develop strong relationships with people at all levels and across organizations (client teams, peers, competitors)

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

Analytical; enjoys problem-solving

Good facilitation and negotiation skills

Ability to informally influence others in a positive way

Strong desire to improve and continuously learn

Professional demeanor and behavior; can-do attitude

Joy in serving clients; servant leader; humble

Travel (by air and car) as required depending on engagement mix.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Graduate degree in business, technical or analytical concentration a plus

7 or more years of relevant business and consulting experience

Varied in leadership of complex 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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