Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleaguesat all levelswill invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you wont find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. Youll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firms diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, youll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
As a Senior Delivery Manager you will lead on business transformation projects including restructuring execution, turnaround, execution, operational excellence, strategic operations, operational strategy, operational consulting transformation and M&A post merger implementation and digital transformation projects.
You will work at a deep level across our clients businesses, working in teams to build the capabilities, systems and processes needed to deliver bottom-line results and then ensure those results will be sustained. You will also lead, coach, and motivate your team of consultants and client employees in each project.
In addition you will act as a subject matter expert, combining experience with strong problem-solving abilities to derive business insights and solid recommendations for clients. Another part of your impact is to contribute to the implementation of our Delivery groups growth strategy, and you will take responsibility on the development of the firm and grow in a stimulating and human environment where quality of life at work is important.
You will be based in our Johannesburg office as part of Orphoz, working closely and in partnership with client's senior management and their specialist departments.
As a subsidiary of McKinsey & Company, Orphoz offers a unique combination of experience, knowledge, network resources, and flexibility. Within our collaborative community, we deliver business transformation including operational excellence, restructuring execution, turnaround execution, post-merger implementation, digital transformation and more. We realize strategy and execute it with our clients. Orphoz integrates the skills, approach, corporate culture, and resources that lead to the success of complex transformation projects and is ideally positioned to smoothly implement strategies designed by McKinsey & Company.
Orphoz helps our leading private sector clients achieve one of their biggest challenges: making their business transformation plans really happen. Our day-to-day work is to support large companies who need to adapt their operating models to the accelerated changes in their environment by combining agility, sustainable efficiency, and employee engagement. Overall, we exist to deliver a lasting impact to our clients.
With Orphoz, you can expect a uniquely varied and exciting working environment, as well as the opportunity to work with a talented and dynamic growing team. We plan and deliver change projects together with our clients, helping them capture their full potential. We know what determines the success of large projects and what can ensure lasting implementation success. We combine strategic and operational project management with strong execution skills and an understanding of the specific demands of each industry. We measure our success by achieving the goals we set together with our clients.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- 8+ years of professional experience including some coming from a consulting environment with high problem solving ability and project management delivery
- 2+ years experience delivering and execution large scale business transformation projects including: restructuring, turnaround, operational excellence, strategic operations, operational strategy, operational consulting transformation and M&A PMI (post merger implementation) or digital transformation projects.
- Private sector experience GEM Mining, Financial Services Banking, insurance or Telecommunications is highly desirable
- Bachelors degree, preferably in financial or similar field with strong record of academic achievement
- Experience developing business unit strategy and leading large-scale business change programs, preferably while establishing strong relationships with senior clients
- You have experience leading people and building teams, empowering team members to achieve impact
- You enjoy the flexibility and agility that is required in a consulting environment
- You are experienced in conducting workshops, thought leadership and coaching sessions
- You are driven by creating long-lasting impact and enjoy leading teams to achieve results
