Description

Do you want to join our fantastic team and be part of growing the Swedish footprint and presence in Kenya and Eastern Africa? Are you an experienced management consultant who thrives on delivering value to clients in market expansion and growth? Can you make a team grow and excel by leading them through a project successfully? Then this might be an opportunity for you. We are currently looking for a new Project Manager to join our team in Nairobi, Kenya.

The office in Nairobi drives large promotion projects within Transport, Energy & Healthcare as well as private assignment for small and large companies. The projects include market analysis, stakeholder analysis and engagement, market entry and growth strategies, and similar. The variety of assignments and the high level of responsibility make the work truly dynamic and challenging.

From our location in Kenya, we also cover the East African Region.

The role includes both strategic, tactic and operational responsibilities such as:

• Drive client dialogues, and take on full sales cycle responsibility including monitoring leads, developing pipeline, and developing project scope, proposals, and cost.
• Lead, manage, and develop project team members to ensure successful project deliveries and team competency development.
• Building strong client relationships, design and drive analytical work, secure that insights and recommendations are well underpinned and packaged.
• Proactively find new business opportunities, drive insight selling in the region and having an active role in developing our value propositions.
• Take a leading role in our collaboration with Team Sweden in the countries we operate in, to provide support and business promotion platforms for Swedish companies.

You will report to the Trade Commissioner and the position is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Core competencies and collaborative skills

• Demonstrate commitment, honesty, and accountability in tasks.
• Provide support and take ownership to ensure high quality delivery on time.
• Consulting skill set: hypothesis-led problem solving, structuring, and communicating complex ideas, strategic thinking.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, ability to work proactively and independently with relevant goals and tasks towards growing the region.
• Result- and customer-oriented with a strategic mind-set and business acumen.
• Collaborate effectively to achieve good results with a positive can-do attitude.
• Contribute to team spirit and transparent communication.
• Easily adapts to new ways of working and circumstances.
• Voice your own ideas and share opinions. Show appreciation for different perspectives.

Formal requirements

• Master of science in Business Administration or Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience from a consultancy firm or equivalent organisation.
• You have experience of leading and coaching consultant teams and prior experience from an international environment.
• Local knowledge of the market and/or relevant industries is meriting.
• Proven track record in sales and the ability to independently drive client dialogues, and take on full sales cycle responsibility.
• A high level of proficiency in both written and spoken English is a requirement. Additional languages are meriting.
• Legally authorised to work in Kenya.

Application

Please submit your CV and cover letter in English as soon as possible as we will be screening applications on a rolling basis. Your application will be handled confidentially.