Consulting Manager | Commercial Excellence & Performance Improvement (CM (CE) - 01) at Talent Genie

• Our client is seeking an accomplished Consulting Manager to join its Cape Town-based consulting team.
• This role offers the opportunity to lead complex strategy and performance improvement engagements, working with senior stakeholders to address business challenges and deliver measurable results.
• You will lead commercial analysis, identify opportunities for improved business performance and guide multidisciplinary teams in translating data-driven insights into practical solutions. You will also contribute to a diverse portfolio of consulting engagements across industries, supporting clients in developing and implementing effective strategies.
• The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and strategic capabilities with proven consulting leadership, stakeholder management and a hands-on approach to delivering sustainable business improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex consulting engagements: Manage day-to-day delivery of high-intensity commercial strategy and performance improvement assignments, maintaining exceptional analytical quality and delivery standards.
• Structure and solve complex business problems: Frame commercial challenges, develop hypotheses, establish analytical approaches and guide rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Direct commercial diagnostics: Lead investigations into pricing, sales effectiveness, contracting, margin performance and commercial processes across multiple business units, identifying opportunities for measurable value creation.
• Guide and develop consulting teams: Provide direction, coaching and quality assurance to engagement managers, consultants and analysts working across multiple jurisdictions.
• Translate analysis into executive-level insights: Develop compelling storylines and produce high-quality presentations, reports, financial models, tools and supporting materials for senior decision-makers.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders: Work confidently with group-level and business-unit leaders, facilitating project planning, workshops, training and steering committee discussions.
• Drive implementation and value realisation: Translate recommendations into practical commercial initiatives, operating model improvements and measurable performance outcomes, supported by change management and adoption activities.
• Coordinate complex programme delivery: Collaborate with internal teams, client stakeholders and external partners to maintain alignment, resolve issues and ensure effective delivery across interconnected workstreams.
• Maintain strong project governance: Oversee workplans, risks, dependencies, milestones and decision points, ensuring proactive issue management and consistent delivery.
• Support consulting practice growth: Contribute to thought leadership, capability development, proposal development and business development initiatives.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

• A postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• 7–12 years of experience in private-sector strategy and/or management consulting, with a demonstrated track record of leading and delivering complex assignments in team-based, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong capabilities in commercial analytics, diagnostic problem-solving and business operational modelling.
• Experience working in high-intensity programme environments involving multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders and rapidly evolving priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex analysis into clear commercial insights, actionable recommendations and practical solutions.
• Experience guiding consulting teams and maintaining high standards of analytical quality and client delivery.

Advantageous

• An additional postgraduate business qualification, such as an MBA, CFA or equivalent.
• Experience leading corporate change management and embedding new commercial operating models, processes and behaviours into business-as-usual operations.
• Exposure to large-scale, multi-business commercial excellence or performance improvement programmes.

Key Skills and Attributes

• Structured problem-solving: Ability to break down complex challenges, test hypotheses and develop evidence-based solutions.
• Analytical and quantitative capability: Confidence interrogating complex datasets and translating findings into commercially meaningful insights.
• Executive communication: Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills, including the ability to produce presentations to leading management consulting standards.
• Stakeholder management: Strong relationship-building and influencing skills across organisational levels.
• Team leadership: Ability to guide, support and develop multidisciplinary teams in demanding and ambiguous environments.
• Collaborative leadership: A commitment to enabling others, sharing knowledge and maintaining high standards of performance.
• Strategic and implementation orientation: Ability to move between commercial strategy, detailed analysis and practical delivery.
• Resilience and adaptability: The judgement and composure to navigate complexity, competing priorities and rapid decision-making.
• Results orientation: A focus on measurable improvements, sustainable value creation and tangible client outcomes.

Deadline:9th November,2026