Overview

Partners in Performance is a global management consulting firm which works hand-in-hand with our clients to deliver lasting impact on their overall business performance. We are looking to hire young professionals for our Ghana office.

We are built around the simple premise that clients are looking for bottom line results, not just ideas. We partner with our clients, coaching them in real time to create measurable and sustainable results. Our specialties include; Operations & Business Improvement, Strategy, Capital Optimisation, Investment & Acquisition and Strategic Sourcing.

Do you enjoy problem solving?  Does the thought of coaching others energise you?
Do you want to have a direct impact on many clients’ bottom lines? If you want to develop skills that will enable you to become a future leader … then you really should be working for us!

What You Will Do

The Associate role is a frontline change agent for Partners in Performance clients.  You are the primary source of reliable data and rock-solid analysis, providing the fact base the engagement team uses to make decisions in real time.

Responsibilities include:

• You coach client analysts and line managers, sharing your skills and building relationships across the client site, using your network to ensure improvement plans are firmly based on the real-world that clients operate in
• Your key responsibility is to provide rigour and accuracy to the improvement effort. As the chief source of insight based on the data you work with, you facilitate the prioritisation of improvement opportunities and use root cause analysis to help resolve day-to-day issues with implementation
• You directly support client Idea owners, providing technical and analytical support to ensure improvement ideas are successful
• You recognise when ideas are under or over-performing relative to expectations and you’re the primary source for validating the benefit stream generated by these ideas

You draw on and develop your leadership skills to help build the client organisation’s “wiring”, to ensure the improvement effort is sustained by a culture of continuous improvement; by doing this, you ensure that the Partners in Performance methodology becomes part of way your client does business, long after the PIP engagement is finished.

Required Qualifications, Skills and Competences

To be a successful consultant at Partners in Performance you will need to have an outstanding academic record and a track record of high performance in your working career to date. Having a dynamic disposition is a pre-requisite.

You will also need to be driven to deliver high quality work, be prepared to roll up your sleeves and work inside our clients’ businesses to get the job done. You will need to care about people and developing them, as coaching is a big part of our success.

What you will need to become a member of the Partners in Performance consulting team:

• Some industry or consulting experience post completing your undergraduate degree (minimum of 18 months’ work experience)
• Undergraduate degree from a top-tier university, with excellent results (distinction average) While we consider candidates from a broad spectrum of degrees, we place a strong emphasis on quantitative skills studied in commerce, engineering and science-based courses
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including analytics
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to coach, influence, and build trust with colleagues and clients
• Demonstrated passion and bias for results
• Must be fluent in English
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to respond clearly to hard questions under pressure and to use visual tools without assistance to communicate insights
• Above average knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel (Power BI advantageous)
• Demonstrated alignment with Partners in Performance values

What we can offer you

Unlimited career opportunities to meet your personal aspirations

• We promote based on people’s delivery and ability, not tenure

Challenging work which makes a real, significant difference

• You will help unleash the potential of our clients and consultants who are out in the field creating better businesses

Stretching challenges that will grow you quickly

• Develop yourself as the firm evolves and expands

Working with other talented, down to earth people

• Being in an entrepreneurial environment without bureaucracy

At Partners in Performance you will learn both the traditional management consulting toolkit, plus the Partners in Performance business transformation methodologies. This will set you up for long-term success, regardless if you decide to stay in consulting as a career or move out into industry further down the line.