What are the responsibilities and job description for the Management Consultant 1 position at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Job Description
The Management Consultant 1 works on projects of diverse scope to maximize efficiencies in the organization. This role will have a great deal of responsibility and ownership for a variety of challenging projects and will work closely with senior executives. These projects range from early-stage diagnostic and strategy development to wide scale testing and implementation. Analyzes internal data to identify organizational weaknesses and subsequently formulates solutions to address them. Works with organization leadership to improve business strategies and results. This role requires the successful candidate to be on-site every day to ensure seamless operations, effective collaboration with the team, and to facilitate meetings with key stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
The Management Consultant 1 works on projects of diverse scope to maximize efficiencies in the organization. This role will have a great deal of responsibility and ownership for a variety of challenging projects and will work closely with senior executives. These projects range from early-stage diagnostic and strategy development to wide scale testing and implementation. Analyzes internal data to identify organizational weaknesses and subsequently formulates solutions to address them. Works with organization leadership to improve business strategies and results. This role requires the successful candidate to be on-site every day to ensure seamless operations, effective collaboration with the team, and to facilitate meetings with key stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Works on projects of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors to improve business strategies and results. Identifies essential work in the organization and how to provide those services in the most simple and affordable way.
- Works cooperatively with team members, directors, and the managing director. Provides guidance and direction on initiative planning, client relationship management.
- Primary responsibility will be typical of a strategy engagement: identifying opportunities through hypotheses, data driven analysis, and research, collaborating with senior leaders, determining highest impact changes, presenting findings to senior management and/or General Authorities, and implementing solutions.
- Strategic project management is critical, which includes shaping work streams, leading project teams drawn from the wider department, and ensuring delivery of results.
- Facilitates effective change management including orientation, build capability of the department and team around them, and set up the projects to lead to lasting long-term change and performance improvement.
- Works as a collaborative thought partner, clarifies ambiguity, and take initiative.
- Great deal of responsibility and ownership for a variety of challenging strategic projects.
- Performs work with a fair amount of latitude. Handles complex issues. Provides regular updates to manager on project status.
- May assist more junior staff with aspects of their job.
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field, preferably with a strategy emphasis.
- 4 years of strategy/management consulting or related experience. Experience in a strategy consulting role at a top tier management consulting firm, or an internal strategy group in a Fortune 500 company is preferred.
- Experience leading projects or managing others preferred.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment. Able to influence strategic thinking, identify trends, and analyze data to impact recommendations.
- Comfortable with ambiguous and complex situations and an ability to provide logical and coherent potential solutions.
- Strong ability to communicate effectively in a way that builds and improves relationships both orally and in writing.
- Must have excellent presentation skills and abilities.
- Capable of performing detailed, technical data analysis.
- Ability to appropriately handle sensitive data and documents.
- Requires little supervision.
- Highly skilled in the use of standard desktop software such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (programming ability a plus).
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
