We are on an exciting transformative path, with significant growth potential and a true sense of purpose. At QS, we’re working to make a difference to a billion future learners and to unleash their collective potential on the world. Our success is down to our people and we are looking for more talented individuals to join us on that transformation.
The Role
QS is seeking a dynamic and progressive Head of Consulting to lead its small but established higher education performance consulting practice. The practice comprises a small, skilled team of experienced higher education experts delivering high quality strategic insight and advice to education institutions and policy makers worldwide.
In addition to taking on the operational management of the existing practice, the new Head of Consulting will be expected to elevate the internal and external visibility of the practice and its excellent work, as well as to actively network in policy circles to identify ways that QS can more strongly contribute its distinctive insights to help universities and their stakeholders best maximise their positive impact.
The successful candidate will have extensive experience in the development or implementation of higher education strategy or practice leadership experience in a broader consulting context, perhaps in a mainstream consulting firm.
Responsibilities include:
Business strategy – drive forward the strategy for the practice, focusing resources on springboard initiatives, in order to support the broader strategy of QS
Thought leadership – harnessing and developing QS insights assets to raise the external profile of the practice and the business as experts in institutional performance and higher education trends
Practice management – establish/develop monitoring and reporting processes and tools where appropriate. Manage team deployment.
Budget control – P&L oversight for the consulting practice.
Team development – monitoring talent acquisition demand, overseeing recruitment, identifying learning and development needs and opportunities
Business development – determining the pre-sales experience for prospective clients, actively networking to attract engagement interest, supporting the commercial teams in detecting and taking advantage of business opportunities.
Customer experience – enhancing the customer experience to convert one-time satisfied customers to long-term partners and champions
Ambassadorship – be the credible and inspiring face of the practice, identify key platforms to profile QS insights and the capabilities of the team through high-impact content delivery
Product development – channel insights surfaced through close working with HE leaders and influencers into evidence-based feature recommendations for products and services across the QS portfolio
Sector expertise – Demonstrate or quickly establish a strong working knowledge of international higher education
We’d love to hear from you if you have most or all of the following…
Proven success in driving business transformation
Strategic experience and a commercial, visionary mindset – having worked closely with business founders and/or senior executives.
Deep experience in higher education strategy and/or consulting practice leadership experience
Strong leadership skills – you are a passionate and motivational leader
Experience harnessing and deploying data and insights to inform strategy
Tenacity and determination – you are results-driven and unafraid to challenge the status quo and hold people accountable, in order to deliver ROI and drive business growth.
Ability to gain trust, influence and steer a wide range of stakeholders enabling you to evangelise the power of insight in all that we do
Life at QS
Our mission is to enable motivated people around the world to fulfil their potential, and we believe that begins with our own remarkable and diverse team.
A few things that make QS a great place to work include:
Competitive package
Flexible working
Vibrant social environment and multicultural, multinational culture, strong team spirit
Focus on welfare – ride to work scheme, yoga classes, global wellness team, EAP and health plan, mental health first aiders, diversity and inclusion initiatives
Strong recognition and reward programs – peer recognition platform, quarterly and annual awards, annual bonus scheme
Support for volunteering and study leave
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