Main Responsibilities of a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting
James's senior consultant role at Deloitte Consulting involves a progression of responsibilities, starting with "material preparation and presentation" and evolving to encompass "client relationship management" and "program management" of projects lasting "four to five months." A significant aspect of the role, reflecting a common feature of consulting, is "data analysis" to fulfill client data requests.
Project Management, Data Analysis, Client Relationship Management, Communication, Presentation Skills
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James McGhee
Senior Consultant
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1. Material preparation and presentation for client meetings is a key responsibility, especially at junior levels.
2. Client relationship management becomes more important with career progression.
3. Program management, including stakeholder, timeline, and budget management, is a significant aspect of the role, with projects lasting around four to five months. Data analysis is also a crucial responsibility, involving synthesizing data for presentations to clients.
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What are your main responsibilities within your current role?
I would break down my responsibilities into a few different areas. Starting out in the consulting field, particularly at more junior levels, a lot of the day-to-day responsibilities involve material preparation and presentation.
For our client teams, we generally lead a lot of different meetings, whether those are on a weekly, daily, or sometimes even monthly basis. A lot of the materials that go into preparing for those meetings, as well as presenting during them, will fall to junior team members. I've done quite a bit of that in my role.
Some other main responsibilities in my role are client relationship management. As I've moved up in my consulting career, I've started to take on more client relationships and the management of those relationships.
Another aspect of my role is program management. In a typical consulting project, we'll be based with a client for generally about four to five months. We run our projects very much like large-scale programs.
This involves managing stakeholders, project timelines, project budgets, and all the various aspects that go into managing a program. I have taken these on, and I own them in my responsibilities.
The last piece, as with a lot of consulting roles, is that these can be highly quantitative roles. Data analysis is another responsibility. Anytime we get data requests from clients, depending on the nature of the project, I will own some of the initial analysis and synthesizing that for presentation.