Designation: Senior Business Consultant
Experience Required: 3- 5 Years
Team: Ecosystem & Investments
Reports To: CEO & Co-Founder
Department Head: Bijon Islam
Direct Reports: Business Consultants, Business Analysts
Location: Dhaka
Mode of Work: Hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 remote) – however need to be flexible based on work engagements
Application Deadline: Saturday, 11 July 2026, 11:59 PM
ROLE OVERVIEW
LightCastle Partners is seeking a Senior Business Consultant to join its Ecosystem & Investments team. This role combines analytical rigor, client leadership, and research depth to deliver high-quality consulting engagements across export competitiveness, digital public infrastructure (DPI), and entrepreneurship ecosystems. The successful candidate will manage client relationships, lead research and advisory workstreams, mentor junior team members, and represent the firm across national and global platforms.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. PROJECT & CLIENT MANAGEMENT
- Lead multi-stakeholder engagements end-to-end, ensuring quality, timeliness, and budget discipline.
- Build and sustain relationships with clients, donors, and strategic partners.
- Own delivery of core outputs — reports, presentations, case studies, and briefs — to a consulting-grade standard.
- Coach and develop Business Consultants and Business Analysts, strengthening the team’s technical and delivery capabilities.
- Track budgets, KPIs, and delivery milestones across active engagements.
2. RESEARCH & KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP
- Lead primary and secondary research across exports, DPI, and entrepreneurship.
- Contribute to flagship publications, including sector reports and DPI landscape studies.
- Design research methodologies — KIIs, FGDs, and surveys — that generate decision-ready intelligence.
- Translate findings into dashboards, frameworks, and policy recommendations.
3. ECOSYSTEM ENGAGEMENT
- Build relationships with policymakers, private-sector leaders, DFIs, and academic institutions.
- Represent LightCastle at national and international platforms and conferences.
- Drive strategic partnerships (e.g., SheSTEM, ExportBangladesh.org, DPI pilots).
- Convene ecosystem roundtables, dialogues, and multi-stakeholder forums.
4. ADVISORY, TRAINING & CAPACITY BUILDING
- Advise SMEs and corporates on growth strategy, blended finance, and investment readiness.
- Design and deliver training modules and Training-of-Trainer (ToT) programs.
- Provide one-on-one advisory on business planning, market entry, and financing pathways.
- Lead accelerator and capacity-building programs with clear, measurable outcomes.
5. DIGITAL & AI-ENABLED DELIVERY
- Build dashboards and automation pipelines using SQL, Tableau or Looker Studio, and Excel.
- Champion adoption of MS365 and collaborative digital workflows across the organization.
- Lead development of LightCastle’s internal Project Management Application.
- Apply generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot) to accelerate research synthesis, drafting, and analysis.
6. AUXILIARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support Finance with budgeting, invoicing, and cost governance.
- Partner with Communications on publications, newsletters, and thought leadership.
- Contribute to business development — proposals, pipeline tracking, and opportunity mapping.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with design, digital, and data teams.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3–5 years of experience in consulting, project leadership, or a related analytical role.
- Strong grounding in market research and the export / digital economy landscape.
- Fluency in MS Office, SQL, and business intelligence tools (Tableau, Power BI, or Looker Studio).
- Demonstrated, hands-on proficiency with generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot).
- Experience with digital transformation and workflow automation.
- Excellent executive communication — narrative clarity, written command, and presentation delivery.
- Proven ability to manage analysts, timelines, and multi-partner complexity.
- Composure and sound judgment under pressure and tight deadlines.
COMPENSATION
Market-competitive and negotiable, commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications and experience.
ABOUT LIGHTCASTLE PARTNERS
LightCastle Partners is a data-driven consulting firm committed to fostering inclusive and sustainable economic growth. We work with development partners, private-sector organizations, and public institutions to design and implement high-impact, evidence-based solutions. Our track record includes:
- 150+ development and private-sector clients
- 250+ completed consulting engagements
- Partnerships with 1,500+ SMEs and startups
- USD 150M+ in investments mobilized
- Support to 50+ accelerator and incubator programs
- The largest market and industry datasets across 30+ sectors in Bangladesh
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should submit an updated CV and a cover letter outlining their interest in the role and career aspirations to [email protected], with the position title clearly stated in the subject line.
LightCastle Partners is an equal-opportunity employer. It believes in fostering diversity in the workplace and does not discriminate based on gender, color, or race.
