Associate Principal

Johannesburg, South Africa
Consulting – AFRICA /
Employee, Permanent /
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 for 2021, we are now recruiting at Associate Principal level to manage the upcoming work.

Examples of types of engagements currently being staffed:

    • Performance improvement – throughput, salesforce effectiveness and cost reduction
    • Procurement - Strategic and Rapid Sourcing and Supply Chain
    • Optimisation of capital projects – design and execution
    • Due Diligence

As an Associate Principal you will:

    • 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 and improvements are embedded and that skills are transferred

Desired Skills and Experience

    • 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
Candidates fitting the above criteria and have held a similar role in a consulting firm are invited to apply. Similarly, candidates that have 4-6 years within a tier one strategy consulting firm and have acquired "real-world" line or strategy experience will be viewed with great interest. 
 
If you want to deliver quantifiable improvements in your next role then join Partners in Performance.  



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