Principal Consultant - Organisation Effectiveness (Syd CBD)

About Q5

Q5 is an international award-winning consulting firm that helps organisations be the best they can be. Q5 are trusted advisors to the world’s most high performing organisations. They help to nurture good "organisational health" so that high performing organisations can remain at the top of their game, and those who are struggling can take action and improve.

Organisational health is complex – so each Q5 intervention is unique, so whether an organisation has a strategic conundrum, market opportunity or operational gripe, we work with them to make things better.

Q5 was founded in London in 2009, and has since grown to have eight global offices, including in Melbourne and Sydney.

Q5 are fiercely independent with a vibrant ‘employee-led’ culture, and a strong commitment to giving back.

Responsibilities:

Our Principal Consultants are responsible for running whole projects or workstreams which deliver great outcomes for our clients.  There are three core focus areas that we use when thinking about consulting at Q5:

Business Development

• You will evaluate the scope of a brief or RfP (Response for Proposal) from a client, develop the strategy to win the work, execute and lead the proposal team from start to end.
• You will contribute to proposals and bids with expert insight from previous projects and experience.
• You will peer review proposals, this may be a single project or an element of a larger programme.
• You assess the resource needs of a piece of work and develop the right commercial approach for an individual piece of work.

Project Delivery

• You will independently mobilise project teams ensuring that all members are knowledgeable about their role.
• You will proactively manage stakeholder relationships within the Q5 client.
• You will manage the team including their professional development, performance and wellbeing.
• You will identify and/or execute mitigations to project risk as well as being able to manage multiple projects, have experience of different project/client environments and bring this to the client to help solve their problems.
• You will draw on experience from multiple clients, sectors and projects to inform effective delivery and establish credibility with the client.
• You will manage the commercials – budget and resource for large projects.

Practice Management

• You will take responsibility for mentoring one or more of our Consultants or Senior Consultants, helping them to drive their development as well as managing performance conversations with confidence and clarity.
• You will support the Q5’s Buddy system and get involved in assisting in the onboarding of new joiners.
• You will contribute to the Q5 ecosystem by leading the development of new concepts, delivering training and leading committees.