Junior Consultant

Squarcle is a growing digital supply chain and performance excellence consultancy dedicated to driving the performance of our clients. We are people orientated and pride ourselves on our people first culture. Unlike many consultancies Squarcle is as equally dedicated to delivery as it is to design.

The Squarcle graduate programme will see our graduates working with both aspects of our client facing teams, the supply chain and performance excellence and the digital team. The programme will provide exposure to core aspects of both teams to develop the skills required to provide supply chain and digitalisation advice to clients that function within a fast-moving global environment. The programme will be co-led by the Head of Consulting and Head of Technology. Working together but often independently, each graduate will be expected to work onsite and remotely, with the client on complex engagements.

‘We optimise the performance of supply chains through the expertise of operations professionals, digitisation and data science’

Squarcle is committed to equality and diversity and our aim is to build a diverse, dedicated, and high-performing team of subject matter experts to help our clients achieve supply chain and performance excellence.

Management consulting requires problem-solving, client engagement/stakeholder management, presentation skills and unique thinking/critical thinking. Organisations today face many problems which affect their ability to perform. With the ever-changing landscape and the emergence of innovative technologies, organisations need to evolve faster than ever. They need help to identify, design and implement the changes vital to their economic health. Our consultants supply their expertise to help our clients attain their performance ambition through the proposed changes.

Squarcle Graduate consultants work across both project delivery and business development:

• Delivery: Squarcle management consultants work to supply solutions to the clients’ changing business needs. The scope of engagements is highly variable and can include core strategy development, large scale implementation, process optimization, change management, and new technology introduction.
• Business development: Squarcle places an emphasis on leading sector thinking in the development of new ideas. This can include producing white papers and internal research on relevant changes occurring in the sector and the impact of the general economy.

Graduate consultants will have the opportunity to work across four broad subject areas:

• Strategy: Strategy consultants provide clients with guidance in various spheres of business, including corporate strategy, business transformation, and digital and innovation capabilities
• Operations: Operations consultants provide clients with guidance about business process optimisations to improve operational business capabilities
• Information Technology: Information technology consultants supply and implement technological solutions for the client
• Human Capital: Human capital consultants provide clients with solutions with change management and aide with any organizational changes that may affect the employees

Graduate consultants are given opportunity to support on projects and are expected to utilise a bank of knowledge and expertise from project leads and other employees. All Squarcle employees are encouraged to ask questions and to learn from each other.

During the Squarcle graduate programme you will develop the skills to transform our clients’ businesses across people, processes, and systems. An overview of the programme is as below:

• Month 1 will involve a two-week onboarding period and focus on meeting the team, understanding how we work and onboarding to your first project.
• Months 2-3 will see you working on a project and learning the basics of consulting.
• Months 4-12 will see you learning more about the business, developing your skills and training in our strategic priorities of key technologies and methodologies such as data fluency, project management, stakeholder management and performance excellence. You will also take part in sessions to explore consulting hot topics.
• Throughout this time you will have access to training and Squarcle will pay for your first exam.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Support and participate fully on project teams.
• Develop and strengthen client relationships and trust through acting with integrity.
• Create and maintain a variety of Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3M) and controls documents.
• Curate relevant data, using both internal and external resources.
• Support the production of the project or task scope, plan, and procurement artefacts including Statements of Requirement (SOR), Business Cases and Tender Documentation.
• Support the delivery of P3M presentations to facilitate the upskilling of colleagues who want to improve their capabilities.
• Manage Project Risks and escalate to the manager.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance project management processes.
• Continuously seek to develop your P3M skills, learning from a range of sources, including formal training, learning from experience, and coaching and mentoring.
• Add value when participating in discussions and workshops with the client.
• Perform analysis to identify and develop P3M plans as well as the solutions for the client using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
• Support the review of the findings from the analysis and the presentation of solutions to the client.
• Develop and maintain a plan to implement the recommended changes, and if required articulate these to the client.

Secondary Roles and Responsibilities

• Support the business development activities of Squarcle such as pursuit development and production of thought papers and the development of marketing material
• Production of internal reporting and lessons to develop the teams situational awareness and learning

Knowledge, Skills & Experience (Essential)

• Degree level qualification in business management, consulting, sciences, finance, statistics, economics, operational research or a related area
• Experience of using the Microsoft Office suite, specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Well-developed core consulting skills e.g., research, analysis, presentation, and attention to detail
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• Exceptional problem-solving skills – an analytical, innovative, and creative mindset
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to be self-directed and be an independent contributor to the team
• Sound work ethic
• Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check

Knowledge, Skills & Experience (Desirable)

• One or more P3M certifications achieved or in progress (APM, PMP, Agile, Lean)
• Understanding of P3M delivery (E.g., Agile, Waterfall, Lean, etc).
• Experience of using Microsoft Power BI and Visio to build models and create reports
• Ability to structure and manage intensive workloads
• A worthy team player, dedicated to contributing toward the outcome desired by the team
• High degree of emotional intelligence to effectively deal with increasingly diverse clients and teams
• Confidence and maturity to work with senior executives