Business Consultant at Giesecke+Devrient

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

• The main purpose of this position is to analyse client requirements and provide world class recommendation reports for client in order to achieve long-term business goals.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES):

• Maintain a high degree of engagement and interaction with central and commercial sales and service teams
• Provide input into account plans and consulting opportunities as well as client proposal writing
• Identify and create new business opportunities, in existing and new segments through a consulting approach
• Research and development of industry specific information per country and presentation thereof
• Costing for all consulting efforts in client projects, quotations and purchases pipeline management 
• Research and development of industry specific information per country and presentation thereof
• Review of existing SLA’s and formulate consulting opportunities
• Develop research programs incorporating current developments to improve existing products and study potential of new products
• Report to senior management on company product technical issues as well as technical developments within the market
• Present at industry conferences on research topics of interest
• Establish and maintain testing procedures for assessing raw materials, in both process and finished products
• Manage trial or testing programs for products/services through the management of staff and assignment of staff and utilization of resources
• Budgeting and cost forecasting of technical development or research programs      
• Research business or economic trends and recommend viable new growth strategies
• Explore opportunities to submit requests for proposals (RFPs)
• Create strategic alliances among similar but non-competing businesses
• Become a company's twin subject matter expert and PR representative and write regular blogs for the company website or post news to social media platform   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 3 years of work experience in a similar role & Retail and Banking software consulting experience
• Business process engineering or related field (desirable)
• Travel into Africa  

MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration or relevant field

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Strong proficiency in MS Office
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Great presentation and public speaking skills
• Highly organised & professional
• Business development, research and development experience
• Project management fundamentals
• Innovative, be able to develop new and creative ideas to address problems and bring in additional revenue
• Analytical with strong attention to detail