Director, Strategy & Performance

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

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.

Requirements:

• 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

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

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