Managing Consultant – Strategy & Risk Advisory

🕒 June 30

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J.S. Held LLC

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1001 - 5000 employees

🛡️ Insurance

⚖️ Legal

📦 Logistics

💰 Private Equity Round on 2015-10

Insurance • Legal • Logistics

J. S. Held LLC is a global consulting firm that provides a broad array of technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to help clients navigate complex, high-stakes situations and mitigate risk. The company offers services across various industries including construction, insurance, and environmental services, with a focus on delivering solutions for contentious and catastrophic scenarios. Known for its integrity and clear-cut analysis, J. S. Held assists organizations by offering in-depth advisory on financial investigations, valuations, risk assessments, forensic services, and strategic planning. With a combination of world-class talent and technology, J. S. Held is dedicated to supporting its clients in making informed decisions while managing both tangible and intangible assets.

📋 Description

• Lead and deliver business intelligence and risk advisory projects across East Africa, with a focus on due diligence investigations and government relations support. • Develop and maintain deep regional, country, and sector-specific expertise. • Contribute to the growth of J.S. Held’s client base within the region. • Build and maintain trusted client relationships, effectively managing and executing client account plans. • Proactively identify business development opportunities and collaborate with senior colleagues to establish new client relationships. • Support marketing initiatives, including the production of high-quality thought leadership content. • Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key public sector stakeholders. • Represent J.S. Held at relevant industry events and provide expert commentary to media outlets.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier university in a relevant discipline, for example, international relations, political science, economics, history, languages, or area studies; • Between four and seven years’ experience of managing and/or conducting complex region-specific business intelligence and risk projects, particularly those relating to integrity due diligence, as well as political analysis and/or stakeholder mapping. • Strong knowledge of the continent’s political and commercial dynamics, gained through relevant professional experience and/or having lived or worked in the region; • Some existing networks of public and private sector contacts in East Africa, for example, journalists, government officials and business executives, and a willingness to proactively expand these networks; • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, including the ability to write in English clear and concise client briefings and reports to tight deadlines with minimal guidance. Other languages are an added advantage. • High levels of dynamism and proactivity, with a ‘can-do’, self-starter attitude; • An ability to serve clients with the utmost discretion and diplomacy; • Some experience in or exposure to business development, with a genuine enthusiasm for growing J.S. Held’s client base.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Time Off Policy • Global Medical Insurance • Life Assurance