Associate Principal

Partners in Performance is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance and working alongside client partners to make change happen. We’ve got offices in Australia, New Zealand, Africa, North and South America, the UK and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom.

Our leadership team is drawn from senior-line positions at top-tier consulting firms and have industry experience or possess deep subject matter expertise. Reflecting our diverse engagement portfolio, many of our consultants are generalists.

As our leadership group continues to build a robust pipeline, we are now recruiting at Associate Principal level candidate to support these ongoing efforts.

Examples of types of engagements currently being staffed:

• Performance improvement – throughput, sales force effectiveness and cost reduction
• Procurement - Strategic and rapid sourcing and supply chain
• Optimization of capital projects – design and execution
• Due Diligence - CDD and VDD

Key responsibility include:

• Provide overall, on-site, team leadership; usually across multiple teams on a single site
• Provide support and coaching to client Business Improvement Managers and Managers
• Ensure: consistency, improvements are embedded and that skills are transferred

Desired Skills and Experience: To be successful in this role you will need:

• A proven ability to deliver large scale transformation projects and frontline productivity improvements
• Have outstanding logic and analytical skills as well as demonstrated capability to solve complex commercial problems.
• Possess strong interpersonal influencing and coaching skills to work with our client base to effect change and achieve desired outcomes.
• Take a proactive, team oriented approach to the undertaking of analysis, whilst being both strategic and pragmatic.
• Be an experienced team leader with the capability to mentor & direct your team
• Language skills in Spanish or French would be highly regarded.

Candidates fitting the above criteria and have held a similar role in a consulting firm are invited to apply. Similarly, candidates that have 5 years within a tier one strategy consulting firm and have acquired "real-world" line or strategy experience will be viewed with great interest. We are also targeting candidates with leadership experience.

NOTE: Alternate locations as a "home base" will be considered.

If you want to deliver quantifiable improvements in your next role then join Partners in Performance!

• Our no physical office culture allows you to work from your preferred city within the US or Canada**

All consulting positions are a combination of working in-person on a client site when working on client engagements and then working in a virtual environment (at home) when not staffed on an engagement.

We treasure diversity of all kinds and have done since we opened for business more than 27 years ago.