Associate at Partners In Performance

About The Role

• The Associate role is a frontline change agent for Partners in Performance clients.  
• You are the primary source of reliable data and rock-solid analysis, providing the fact base the engagement team uses to make decisions in real time.
• To be a successful consultant at Partners in Performance you will need to have an outstanding academic record and a track record of high performance in your working career to date. Having a dynamic disposition is a pre-requisite. 
• You will also need to be driven to deliver high quality work, be prepared to roll up your sleeves and work inside our clients’ businesses to get the job done.
• You will need to care about people and developing them, as coaching is a big part of our success.
• What you will need to become a member of the Partners in Performance consulting team:
• Some industry or consulting experience post completing your undergraduate degree (minimum of 18 months’ work experience)
• Undergraduate degree from a top-tier university, with excellent results (distinction average)While we consider candidates from a broad spectrum of degrees, we place a strong emphasis on quantitative skills studied in commerce, engineering and science-based courses
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including analytics
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to coach, influence, and build trust with colleagues and clients
• Demonstrated passion and bias for results
• Must be fluent in English
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to respond clearly to hard questions under pressure and to use visual tools without assistance to communicate insights
• Above average knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel (Power BI advantageous)
• Demonstrated alignment with Partners in Performance values

Responsibilities include:

• You coach client analysts and line managers, sharing your skills and building relationships across the client site, using your network to ensure improvement plans are firmly based on the real-world that clients operate in
• Your key responsibility is to provide rigour and accuracy to the improvement effort.  
• As the chief source of insight based on the data you work with, you facilitate the prioritisation of improvement opportunities and use root cause analysis to help resolve day-to-day issues with implementation
• You directly support client Idea owners, providing technical and analytical support to ensure improvement ideas are successful
• You recognise when ideas are under or over-performing relative to expectations and you’re the primary source for validating the benefit stream generated by these ideas