London Office - EU O&P Practice Specialist (2+ years exp.)
About L.E.K. Consulting
L.E.K. Consulting is a global strategy consulting firm that addresses the most critical commercial issues for the leaders of some of the world's most successful businesses.
Clients come to us time and again because we are proven to act as an insightful expert and a trusted partner. We are uncompromising in our approach to help clients make better decisions at crucial moments, changing the trajectory of their enterprise, delivering improved business performance, and creating greater shareholder returns.
Our teams combine our core capabilities of research, benchmarking, modelling, data & analytics and strategy development to create game-changing insights and practical solutions that seize competitive advantage and unlock new growth opportunities. We enable clients to make critical decisions with greater certainty and empower them to master their moments of truth.
With more than 1,900 professionals located across five continents, L.E.K. specialises in Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) support with clients across the full range of corporates and private equity. We are expert in a wide range of industries, including Life Sciences and healthcare, retail and consumer, financial services, industrials, energy and transportation.
Our global growth ambitions are huge. Be part of this growth.
Our European Organisation & Performance Practice
The Organisation & Performance (O&P) practice supports our corporate and Private Equity clients with diagnostic, transformation and delivery issues in the areas of:
- Value acceleration
- Operational Due Diligences
- Transformation & Organisational Strategy
- Commercial Excellence / Sales Force Excellence
- Carve-outs / Post-Merger Integration
- Performance Improvement
The Organisation & Performance (O&P) practice brings the transformation and performance improvement expertise to work hand-in-hand with L.E.K. sector experts, who bring deep market understanding. This enables to deliver tangible results corresponding to the defined strategy.
The EU O&P Practice Specialist will be a critical supporting role for the dedicated EU O&P regional team, in terms of IP generation, client development and project delivery. In addition, the role will coordinate with O&P Practice Specialists in other regions (e.g., US).
Key role and responsibilities
Client development support
- Support proposal development process
- Preparation of client materials – in general and for specific meetings
Content management and IP development
- Manage IP content generation to ensure new content is created against pre-agreed targets – play process facilitation role as well as support in content production
- Organise practice content (e.g., CD / BD materials, IP / case delivery content, etc.) within our SharePoint / Teams community of practice
Tool management / development
- Become ‘superuser’ for core L.E.K. O&P tools – e.g., E.K. Catalyst and OEX Diagnostic
- Point of contact for partners and case teams looking to deploy and / or be trained in O&P tools
- Support the development of core tools, as well as identification of new tools – including developing working relationship with key 3rd party tool providers (e.g., Shibumi, 9Lenses)
Case team onboarding / training
- Become proficient in core O&P methodologies
- Responsible for onboarding / training case teams in relevant methodologies and tools for a new O&P project, as well as ensuring case teams are aware of / have access to key tools, templates, etc. to maximise effectiveness in case delivery
- Debrief with case teams at project end to ensure IP and tools are updated with new learnings
Practice operations management
- Preparation of business updates for practice/sector meetings
- Management of practice communications (e.g., leadership updates, newsletter)
- Enablement of team engagement activities (e.g., in-person workshops, all-hands)
Requirements
- Experience of IP rich environments where:
- Bespoke methodologies are developed
- Learnings from casework is leveraged to further IP development
- Selling is ideas based and methodology rich
- Experience consulting to senior corporate clients in blue chip firms
- 2+ years consulting experience focused on O&P case work or similar (e.g., organisational strategy, performance improvement, post-merger integration, etc.)
- Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills
- Polished and professional, with good communication skills
- Highly motivated and proactive
Diversity and inclusion at L.E.K.
Here at L.E.K., we appreciate the value of a diverse and inclusive workforce and are committed to a culture that is inclusive and accepting of all people. Above all, we are committed to ensuring that all employees are treated with respect and dignity. L.E.K. Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We have several affinity groups to support and enrich our employees and in addition, our Diversity and Inclusion committee celebrate events throughout the year with a focus on awareness and education.
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