Junior Management Consultant at Raizcorp

What you’ll do

• Hold structured one-on-one sessions with a portfolio of entrepreneurs, working through the commercial and developmental challenges facing their businesses.
• Analyse businesses across finance, strategy, sales, marketing, operations and people to identify constraints, opportunities and underlying commercial issues.
• Help entrepreneurs interpret financial and operational information and translate it into better business decisions.
• Apply structured problem-solving to complex and sometimes ambiguous entrepreneurial challenges.
• Challenge assumptions, test logic and help entrepreneurs evaluate the trade-offs behind important business decisions.
• Work with entrepreneurs to strengthen their strategies, commercial models, sales approaches, marketing activities, operational systems and people practices.
• Help entrepreneurs move from identifying a problem to implementing practical solutions - while ensuring that they develop the capability to make better decisions independently.
• Facilitate business simulations, workshops and group learning interventions using Raizcorp’s programmes and methodology.
• Collaborate with other Guides, specialists and programme teams to support each entrepreneur’s development journey.

This role may be a strong fit for you if you are:

• A management consultant who enjoys the problem-solving component of consulting but wants a deeper relationship with the businesses and people you support.
• Someone who enjoys moving between different industries, business models and commercial problems.
• Commercially curious and naturally interested in understanding how businesses actually work.
• Comfortable working with incomplete information, ambiguity and problems that do not have textbook answers.
• Someone who enjoys challenging intelligent people without needing to prove that you are the cleverest person in the room.
• Interested not only in solving the problem, but in developing the entrepreneur’s ability to solve the next one.
• Energised by seeing recommendations move beyond a presentation and into the day-to-day reality of a business.

What you’ll need

• Meaningful experience in management consulting, strategy consulting, commercial advisory, corporate strategy or a closely related environment.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
• Excellent commercial acumen and the ability to understand how strategy, finance, sales, marketing, operations and people interact.
• Strong financial literacy and confidence interpreting business performance, financial statements and commercial drivers.
• Exposure to different businesses, sectors, business models or commercial challenges.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex concepts clearly and practically.
• The confidence to challenge entrepreneurs while remaining constructive, respectful and non-judgemental.
• High emotional intelligence and genuine curiosity about people and entrepreneurship.
• An organised, disciplined and proactive working style.
• Confidence using technology and business systems, including Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Office.
• A commerce, business, finance, economics, engineering or similarly relevant tertiary qualification.
• An MBA or other postgraduate business qualification will be an advantage.
• A valid driver’s licence and your own vehicle.
• Entrepreneurial experience, including having built, operated or been closely involved in a business, will be a significant advantage.