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Ref: OP964-03
Job description / Role
The Associate is the professional who assists consultants and management to deliver their services as per set standards. He or she has to facilitate to the consultants and management to identify the problems, offer recommendations and assist in implementing the proposed solutions for the organization. He or she has to participate in the important client based meeting on demand.
The Associate also needs to fulfill the management related tasks such as working with the consultants and managers for defining the hypotheses, developing of the commercialized insights etc.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- To support consultants to lead different modules of project works and driving analytic insights.
- To review the research-work properly so needs to support consultants and management to direct and provide the quality control for team’s analytic and research work
- To work as a supporting-hand for the building complex economical models to assess the influence of tactical options on the future performance of the products/ services.
- To undertake the analytic projects consisting of the adaptive analysis.
- To help the consultants, seniors, managers and partners in defining the hypotheses.
- To develop the insights of commercial nature and communicate the results to the clients.
- To provide the strong foundation for the career growth so develop the novel management and strategic tools.
- To review and summarize the internal data of the client.
- To maintain the collaboration with the case team members to derive trends, conclusions and recommendations based on the analyses.
- To attend Meetings whenever required.
- To follow up with all concerned matters to ensure that all decisions taken by the VP are being acted upon in a timely manner.
- To act as the point of contact on all Corporate Level organizational matters.
- To track companies’/departments’ performance and development projects schedules.
- To maintain overall responsibility for developing company policies and procedures.
- To design and ensure application of project management methodologies.
- To oversee and track main company initiatives.
- To track projects for VP as a strategic/operational role.
- To develop marketing materials including brochures, catalogs, profiles, prospectuses, presentations related to business developments/new ventures and new companies.
- To ensure compliance with managerial, operational, legal and financial policies and procedures approved by the company.
- Other than the above duties, upon organizational need and demand, the Associate may need to engage other activities.
Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of consulting experience in the field of Lean, Kaizen and TPS; and 5+ years of overall work experience.
- The person needs to have the past working experience in the related field.
- He or she should have strong academic background, for example, having a Diploma degree in business, engineering or a related field.
- The most preferable degree for the job is the Bachelor degree and familiarity with Microsoft is highly preferable.
About the Company
Kaizen Institute (KI) was founded in Switzerland 13 June 1985 by Masaaki Imai, pioneering the original KAIZEN™ consulting firm, specialized in continuous improvement and achieving enterprise wide business excellence. We have been celebrating our 30th year anniversary during 2015 for our humble yet rich history. One of our four brand promises, being ‘Authentic’, reflects such a long history with KI being the pioneer in the continuous improvement consultancy sector. In the 1990’s KI was able to expand into other, non-manufacturing sectors, while also entering into the Asian markets by the turn of the century. In late 2003, KI’s Global Operations was launched and has since been the foundation of KI’s global growth and the expansion of KI’s world-wide footprint, now covering nearly 40 countries with over 50 KI companies. Kaizen Institute and our team of highly trained and sought after professionals work to advance the continuous improvement body of knowledge worldwide.