Consultant - Business Consulting

Company Description

Be part of a global consulting powerhouse, partnering with clients on their most critical strategic transformations.

We are Wavestone. Energetic, solution-driven experts who focus as much on people as on performance and growth. Hand in hand, we share a deep desire to make a positive impact. We are an ambitious firm with a worldwide reach and an ever-expanding portfolio of clients, topics, and projects. In North America, Wavestone operates from hubs in New York City, Pittsburgh, Dallas and Toronto. We work closely with CEOs and technology leaders to optimize IT strategy, sourcing models, and business processes and are committed to building lasting partnerships with our clients.

Are you a true team player, living strong values? Are you a passionate learner, aiming to grow every day? Are you a driven go-getter, tackling challenges head-on? Then we could be the right fit for you. Join Wavestone and thrive in an environment that’s empowering, collaborative, and full of opportunities to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s solutions – contributing to one or more of our core 4 capabilities:

Business Consulting | Business Strategy & Transformation, Organizational Effectiveness & Change Management, Operating Model Design & Agility, Program Leadership & Project Management, Marketing, Innovation, & Customer Experience

Technology Consulting | IT Strategy & CTO Advisory, Technology Delivery, Data & Artificial Intelligence, Software & Application: Development & Integration, SAP Consulting, Insurance/Reinsurance

Cybersecurity | Cyber Transformation Remediation, Cyber Defense & Recovery, Digital Identity, Audit & Incident Response, Product & Industrial Cybersecurity

Sourcing & Service Optimization | Global Services Strategy, IT & Business Process Services Outsourcing, Global In-House Center Support, Services Optimization, Sourcing Program Management

Read more at www.wavestone.com

Job Description

As a Consultant at Wavestone in our Business Consulting practice, you will help lead and advise client engagements across business strategy, operational transformation, M&A integration, organizational effectiveness and/or marketing and innovation. This role provides an opportunity to broaden your leadership skills, work across a variety of industries, and exercise your entrepreneurial spirit to deliver superior results for our clients. 

Responsibilities

• Participate directly in client engagements, providing expert insights and ensuring projects run seamlessly from start to finish.
• Lead and facilitate client workshops and project meetings while providing a unique point of view. 
• Participate in proposal development and delivery to client organizations. 
• Lead well developed workstreams and small projects with confidence, deliver structure where there is ambiguity, resolve stakeholder resistance and risks, ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of work, and implement high value outcomes. 
• Collaborate with an internal network of skilled consultants to solve client problems and deliver high impact projects. 
• Work closely with diverse teams to deliver results and foster an environment to recognize and reward individual and team achievements. 
• Present findings both internally at Wavestone and externally to clients that include data acquisition and insights. 
• Build rapport and nurture relationships with clients to identify collaborative efforts and propose new business opportunities.
• Continually evolve and build a knowledge base (emergent trends, technologies, and approaches).

Qualifications

Education  

• Bachelor’s degree in variety of disciplines to include Finance, Accounting, Business, or other relevant fields. 
• Master’s/MBA degree preferred. 

Required Experience     

• 2 or more years’ business consulting experience in areas such as business strategy, operational transformation, M&A integration, organizational effectiveness and/or marketing and innovation. 
• Prior work experience from a variety of business projects such as business integration, organizational change, digital/brand marketing, new product launches, mergers & acquisitions, or system integrations.
• Prior work experience from a variety of business projects.
• Project delivery work experience supporting well-developed workstreams and small projects.
• Well-developed financial and business acumen from working in a variety of business functions including supply chain, finance, operations, IT, HR, marketing, and sales.    
• Experience in both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies. Expertise in multiple project management tools.   
• Ability to create simple solutions in complex and unclear situations and synthesize a path forward.   
• Leadership skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams.  
• Demonstrated strategic big picture thinking paired with the ability to pivot and deep dive into the details as required. 
• Expertise in Microsoft Office products including the ability to develop compelling communication of complex concepts using PowerPoint. 
• Strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to communicate concisely and clearly at both line and senior management levels. 
• Ability to travel based on client requirements.   

Preferred Experience  

• Process improvement/Six Sigma/Lean Sigma experience.

Benefits

• Medical / Dental / Vision coverage
• Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA
• Employer Paid disability and life insurance
• Short-term & Long-term Disability
• Term life and AD&D
• Voluntary life insurances
• Critical Illness and Accident insurances
• $50 Technology stipend (monthly)
• 401(k) retirement plan - Traditional 401(k) & Roth 401(k)
• 30 Days of flexible paid time off (accrued monthly)
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
• Paid Parental Leave Policy
• Ability to participate in the company ESOP plan

Additional Information

Wavestone is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity as a core component of our culture. Our collective success depends heavily on the recruitment and inclusion of qualified professionals, regardless of individual characteristics such as race, ancestry, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran’s status, or any characteristic protected by law.