Senior Delivery Consultant

Who You'll Work With

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 restructuring, turnaround, post-merger implementation, 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 impact within our firm

As the Senior Delivery Consultant, you will manage workstreams largely independently, with the support of a project manager. As you gain experience, you will gradually assume responsibility for delivering parts of projects yourself.

A key part of your role will be to implement transformation office projects in the mining, banking, or telco sector, ensuring long-term impact delivery. You will lead junior consultants and clients in your project or workstream and successfully hold client meetings and workshops to achieve the project's objectives.

In addition, you will grow in a stimulating and human environment where quality of life at work is important. You will contribute to the development of the firm through participation in internal projects.

Your qualifications and skills:

1. 4+ years of experience in project management coming from a consulting environment with high problem-solving ability
2. 2+ years experience delivering and executing business transformation projects such as turnaround, restructuring, post-merger implementation, setting up a Transformation office
3. Proven experience with the delivery, implementation, and execution of business transformation / business change projects (people-oriented transformations such as capability building, service redesign, organisational structure, etc.)
4. Experience using one or more project management frameworks such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Prince 2, Lean, etc.
5. You are driven by creating long-lasting impact and enjoy working with people to achieve results
6. Proven experience in one or more of the following sectors: Mining, Banking (financial services), or Telco (Telecommunications)
7. You have strong pragmatic problem-solving skills
8. You enjoy the flexibility and agility that is required in a consulting environment