Job description
To become a great Elixirr Manager you will require the following:
- A confident and engaging personality
- Proven leadership qualities – to motivate, coach and develop team members while overseeing project delivery, delegating and coordinating tasks amongst the team to ensure the highest quality output within timeframes
- A passion for problem solving
- Responsible and accountable - unlike other firms, you will often be the Elixirr lead on an engagement, this means being responsible for delivering the work and accountable for resolving any risks and issues that arise
- Self-awareness - you need to embrace feedback and strive for continual improvement as well as supporting the development of others
- An entrepreneurial spirit
- Facilitation skills – experience of structuring and running workshops
- Stakeholder management skills - both internal and client, with the ability to influence
- Senior client relationship management skills - delivering exceptional value to the client through outstanding delivery
- Big picture thinking
- Deep-end survival skills – you will have conquered a steep learning curve. As a Manager you have to be able to get up to speed very quickly, often without an SME, and to a level where you can lead discussion and conversations new to you as the expert in the room
- Intellectual curiosity to invest in broadening your own skill set and identifying commercial opportunities
Additionally you will need to be :
- Flexible - this applies across all Grades but as a Manager you are often the most senior full-time person on an engagement, and given we have small teams deployed on short engagements, you have to be prepared to accept that sometimes projects will mean you need to change your plans outside of work
- Adaptable - being able to flex your communication style depending on the team / project / client etc
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and complexity and still delivering - often our clients aren’t clear themselves on what they want help with, and given the short nature of our engagements there is a need to rapidly establish
- Experienced in one or more areas of strategy, transformational change, target operating models, operational excellence, outsourcing and business case development
What We Do
An award-winning global consulting firm working with clients across a diverse range of markets, industries and geographies.
We're a high-performance, hand-selected team of industry professionals, subject matter experts, career consultants, designers and developers. We take on our clients’ toughest business challenges to deliver lasting, tangible change. Our culture is built on entrepreneurialism, so our people play an integral role in building our business. Every member of our team is an owner of Elixirr through our share schemes, encouraging an ownership mindset by seeing real return for the work they put in every day.
Our roots are in strategy consulting. Our capabilities range from business model innovation to change management, and everything in between. Alongside the expertise brought in by Elixirr Digital, Insigniam and Hypothesis - we have a unique collection of capabilities to help supercharge every stage of our clients’ business journey. We are a global firm working across industries, combining our experience as consultants, entrepreneurs and practitioners to deliver bespoke solutions. We’re a firm of disruptors, risk takers and straight-talkers, challenging convention to help our clients change the game.
We are driven by one purpose. To be the best consulting firm in the world. We are Elixirr. The Challenger Consultancy.
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