Consultant

Job description / Role

The Consultant is the professional who delivers business-services as per set standards. He or she has 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 meetings. The Consultant also needs to fulfill the management related tasks such as working with the managers for defining the hypotheses, developing of the commercialized insights etc. Below are the Duties and Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:
- To lead different modules of project works and driving analytic insights.
- To provide the coaching to the analysts in the key research and data securing activities.
- To review the research work properly so needs to direct and provide the quality control for team’s analytic and research work.
- To build 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 senior consultants, 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 act as the point of contact on all Corporate Level organizational matters.
- To assist the VP in analyzing & judging matters related to Business Strategy, Compliance, Organization, Operations, etc.
- To look-out for improvements across the companies/departments/units/ and act as the “internal auditor” on process and management matters (not finance).
- 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 anticipate and propose changes to company structure and HR-related matters to improve efficiency.
- To oversee and track main company initiatives.
- To support the VP in developing company’s 5-year revolving strategy and annual strategy and budget.
- To track projects for VP as a strategic/operational role.
- 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 Consultant may need to engage other activities.

Requirements

- Minimum 5 years of consulting experience in the field of Lean, Kaizen and TPS; and 10+ years of overall work experience.
- He or she should have strong academic background, for example, having a Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or a related field.
- The most preferable degree for the job is the MBA 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.