Job Description

Our Brussels office aims to recruit a Principal to strengthen its team. The unique value that we offer our clients requires unique talents from our consultants. We are therefore looking for multilingual people with a high sense of creativity and learning agility, outstanding interpersonal and analytical skills and a great deal of entrepreneurship.

Responsibilities

The principal is a significant contributor to business development, taking lead responsibility for a substantial area of business and/or one or more key accounts, and initiating or steering sales campaigns when appropriate.

Alternatively (or in addition), the principal is the professional leader of at least one important area of the company's business, developing and applying new consulting methodologies and ensuring their rigor and relevance. The principal is recognized by colleagues as a professional authority, and acts as a guide and mentor for less senior staff.

DRIVING THE CONTENT

• Frame the problem at project level and manage the case team analytical process
• Ensure right level of insight and right level of integration between different modules of the assignment
• Write the storyline at project level

MANAGING THE CLIENT

• Own project process, content and day-to-day client interactions, facilitate senior level meetings and client presentations
• Engage the client fully to ensure strategies are translated into actionable plans e.g. arranging and leading workshops
• Present key findings to C-level executives

MANAGING THE TEAM

• Coach, develop and manage case team members on a day-to-day basis

CONTRIBUTING TO ADL’S DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH TRAJECTORY

• Progressively develop specific expertise/Topic ownership on industrial or functional practices as a basis for future commercial development
• Contribute to ADL’s knowledge management basis through client assignment development or specific research
• Contribute at office/practice level on defined transversal activities

Qualifications

A principal is a mature and experienced professional who is able to win, plan, manage and deliver large and complex projects to clients’ satisfaction. They are recognized in the relevant professional field or industry sector as an accomplished expert, and have an extensive network of professional contacts.

We are looking for individuals who are keen to put their intellect, curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm to test in a sometimes high-pressure client-driven environment.

More particularly, we are looking for people that are capable of making the “Little” difference, combining the following characteristics:

• High intellectual integrity & highly ethical
• Highly energetic & self-confident
• Team-oriented & non-hierarchical
• Collegial personality with a sound sense of humor