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The firm provides growth strategy services to leading global telcos, data centre operators, and their partners and suppliers. Recently, the firm has expanded into M&A transaction support for companies and investors, including PE and infrastructure funds.\nAs Director, Consulting, you will play a pivotal leadership role in both shaping and delivering client work and scaling the consulting practice. This role combines business development, project leadership, and firm-building responsibilities, offering the opportunity to work with major global clients.\nMust-Have Requirements\n8+ years’ experience in consulting with a focus on telecoms and digital infrastructure for companies and/or investors\nProven experience leading large consulting projects (strategy, transformation, market entry or commercial due diligence)\nDemonstrated sales experience winning new clients and expanding existing accounts\nAbout the company\nSTL Partners is a boutique research and consulting firm that works with clients to deliver organic growth and M&A transaction support. Our core proposition is that “We enable our technology and digital infrastructure clients to innovate & grow”.\nOur consulting business develops winning commercial strategies for our clients.\nWe support our customers across 5 key capabilities:\nCorporate strategy: Defining growth priorities\nM&A transaction support: VDD and CDD\nProduct and services strategy: Value proposition & business case development \nMarketing strategy: Channel, customer segmentation, messaging\nCustomer engagement: thought leadership research, playbooks, pitches, webinars, private events\nWhat you’ll do\nConsulting Directors are expected to divide most of their time between securing sales and leading teams in delivering projects. They are also expected to spend about 30% of their time managing and developing the STL business operations through internal and market initiatives. More specifically, they will:\nOversee and contribute to the entire project process. This will include targeting prospects, initiating conversations, and formulating proposals to the project execution and final deliverable.\nOversee 4-7 projects concurrently with teams of 3-5 consultants.\nDevelop opportunities and win work from existing clients and new prospects in conjunction with other directors, senior consultants and STL’s account managers.\nAct as a mentor for senior consultants and junior consultants, overseeing their development including managing review processes and making recommendations around recruitment, development and promotion of talent.\nIdentify areas of policy improvement within the business and lead in securing support for and implementing proposals.\nIdentify strategic initiatives for STL, set out proposals for pursuing them to the board and champion them through to successful implementation among the wider team.\nContribute actively in weekly management meetings and monthly board meetings, sharing insight, shaping initiatives and completing agreed actions.\nOur company culture\nWe pride ourselves on the culture that we have grown and that our employees adopt. 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