WHAT DOES A CONSULTING DO?

Published: May 29, 2025 - The Consulting Professional provides expert analysis and strategic solutions to complex business challenges across diverse industries. This role involves delivering data-driven recommendations to enhance operational efficiency and drive sustainable growth. The position also collaborates with stakeholders to implement tailored initiatives that align with organizational goals.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Consulting

1. Consulting Analyst General Responsibilities

  • Customer Support: Primarily dedicated to a single customer, working on-site at the customer facility
  • Training: Provide training and guidance to customers in the proper usage of the Cognito platform.
  • Threat Analysis: Analyse threats, piece together exploitation trails, and study lateral movements of attackers within customer networks
  • Communication: Expertly explain to customers the conclusions and recommendations for mitigating or remediating an in-progress attack
  • Threat Education: Provide an attacker's-eye-view of the evidence presented by the clients' products and educate customers about the technical nature of the threat
  • Incident Response: Respond to and document customer requests for assistance
  • Case Management: Provide timely status updates and proactively work on cases to resolution
  • Collaboration: Collaborate across businesses to identify new detection models, identify new product features, and build content for both internal and external customer knowledge bases
  • Security Research: Pursue security research topics that contribute to the knowledge and enumeration of new threats
  • Security Assessment: Identify blind spots in customer network security architecture and provide expert guidance on remediation

2. Consulting Solution Architect Responsibilities

  • Technical Support: Assist customers, account teams and partners in all technical aspects relating to VMware platforms
  • Product Adoption: Drive adoption of new VMware Telco offerings
  • Architecture Strategy: Drive strategic customer architectural evolution
  • Telco Virtualization: Understand specific challenges of virtualising/containerising Telco workloads, and associated infrastructure requirements
  • Automation: Understand all aspects of deployment automation, from infrastructure deployment automation to VNF/CNF orchestration
  • Product Development: Work with product management to enhance and evolve VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform based on customers’ requirements
  • PoC Management: Help to manage customer PoC's along with other technical teams
  • Lab Management: Build up internal lab capabilities for learning, customer zero testing and internal technical training activities
  • Documentation: Help with developing and improving product documentation
  • Knowledge Sharing: Help with internal education by documenting and presenting customer learnings to internal audiences and externally at internal and external events.
  • Training: Engage in internal and external training activities by preparing content to educate account teams and customers

3. Director of Risk Consulting Roles and Details

  • Relationship Management: Lead activities to deepen relationships, reputation and added value in approaches
  • Problem Solving: Understand issues and challenges and propose solutions, including approaches, structures and planning with appropriate consideration of risk, time and costs
  • Client Management: Manage a portfolio of clients and lead the delivery of high-quality consulting advice and service to those clients
  • Risk Leadership: Accountable for leading large-scale Risk Consulting or Assurance initiatives or programmes of work in areas such as Internal Audit, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory/Risk Transformation/change programmes
  • Performance Management: Ownership and accountability for achieving performance-based targets
  • Innovation: Identify opportunities for innovation and assume responsibility for building the case, mobilising the team and achieving targeted outcomes
  • Business Development: Support future strategy and business development, including the preparation of thought leadership, client proposals and materials and building technical knowledge across the team
  • Quality Assurance: Drive adherence to standards supporting effective and quality delivery
  • Team Leadership: Build, develop and motivate high-performing teams, offering the required level of personal and professional counselling support and feedback
  • Collaboration: Define effective ways of working and drive collaboration across empowered teams

4. Security Consulting Engineer Overview

  • PDI Services: Providing Plan, Design, Implement (PDI) and Optimisation services in customer environments
  • Migration Planning: Providing migration plans, with a detailed understanding of customer applications and related dependencies
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building relationships with SMEs, both internal and external, to develop solutions.
  • Design Documentation: Crafting High-Level Designs, Low-Level Designs, and Test Plans for the Security Portfolio
  • Consulting: Supporting design workshops and technology-specific consultancy services for customers
  • Business Alignment: Working to understand the changing business needs and help align team goals to provide meaningful solutions for customers.
  • Problem Solving: Solving customers’ technology challenges and helping achieve their business outcomes.
  • Technical Leadership: Acting as the technical specialist for sophisticated deployments and as a member of the technical team in key engagements
  • Knowledge Management: Supporting the processes of capturing, developing, sharing, and managing knowledge in Security technology
  • Continuous Improvement: Participating and working enthusiastically to drive continuous improvement as a key practice.

5. Senior Consulting ManagerJob Description

  • Process Improvement: Use benchmarks to identify and implement process and organisation improvement opportunities
  • Strategy Development: Work with clients to define their warehousing vision and strategy in line with their overall business strategy
  • Logistics Advisory: Advise clients in distribution networks, transport management, and warehousing
  • Automation Projects: Lead smart logistics and warehouse automation assessment and implementation projects
  • Transformation Management: Prepare, plan, and implement all aspects of warehouse transformation programmes
  • Team Management: Manage and support mixed PwC and client teams
  • Client Engagement: Work with client resources to get to know their organisation, operations, and requirements
  • Issue Analysis: Analyse identified issues and develop an approach to manage and solve them proactively
  • Implementation Planning: Develop a tailored approach that enables a successful implementation and sustained results
  • Client Relations: Develop long-term, qualitative working relations with clients
  • International Collaboration: Collaborate with and contribute to PwC’s international Logistics network
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