Senior Business Analyst/Consultant,(The Context Network) -Employment, career opportunity in USA

Job Title:   Senior Business Analyst/Consultant
Location: - (St. Louis, Missouri, Mid-West United States, USA)
Company: The Context Network
Job Type: Full Time
Minimum Years Experience Required: 3
Salary: Negotiable



Location: Negotiable
(Preferences for:  St. Louis, MO; Champaign, IL; Des Moines, IA; Denver, CO; Summerville, SC; Raleigh, NC)

Consult with clients to identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to clients’ strategic and operating success by thoroughly preparing for and conducting interviews, gathering required data, executing required analyses, identifying issues and problems, and recommending approaches to address them, testing quality of data and reconciling data across sources, presenting facts and evidence in meetings and serving as an effective support resource to team in client meetings.

Employ strategic business consulting skills to work with clients through all stages of strategy-based projects. Provide support on client assignments that help to develop a strategy and then refocus an organization on making that strategy a reality.

Day-to-day activities are often complex, dynamic, and varied. The job is essentially entrepreneurial in nature and project-based.  Projects may vary in length and can involve an individual or a large team. They can be based at one site or across several states or international borders.



Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Business Analyst / Consultant, you will:

·  Lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously, with primary responsibility for client deliverables

·  Serve as a member of the team on multiple projects simultaneously

·  Identify and form a team then lead and direct the work of those within the team, including client resources, internal business analysts and/or external experts, who are sub-contractors of Context

·  Carry out (primary and/or secondary) research and data collection.  Conduct data analysis

·  Prepare deliverables.  Build and tell the story (weave together the client’s issues/needs, the findings and the recommendations into a story through use of tools such as storyboarding and PowerPoint)

·  Build relationships with clients by co-facilitating and co-driving client meetings and discussions, along with the Context Partner

·  Prepare project proposals and bids


Knowledge and Abilities:

·         Passion for food and agribusiness industry
·         Driven for results
·         Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities
·         Strong project management skills
·         Strong personal presence combined with compelling and professional presentation and communication skills
·         Effectively and simultaneously work independently and forges productive relationships
·         Team player with strong communication skills and a proven ability to lead and influence without authority

·         Interpersonal savvy
·         Intellectual curiosity / imaginative / creative
·         Excellent written and verbal communication in English
·         Solid understanding and application of consulting and multi-disciplinary tools, methodologies and systems
·         Effective use of analytic tools (i.e. Excel, Access) and communication tools (i.e. PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

 Minimum Education, Training and Experience

    Minimum of 3-5 years industry experience.  Mix of backgrounds considered.  Strongly prefer…..
    Management consulting experience or
    Management experience with an agribusiness, biotechnology, food, life sciences company
    Strong preference for candidates with agriculture experience / exposure

Other

·      Able to travel 50%+ of the time (pending location) – travel within the continental US and international


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