Senior Consultant: Industrial Development

About the role

As a Senior Consultant in BMA’s Industrial Development team, you will help shape the future of manufacturing in Africa. Based in Durban, you will work across macro‑level policy, sector strategy and firm‑level competitiveness to drive South Africa’s re‑industrialisation agenda.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement industrial cluster programmes that strengthen sector competitiveness and value‑chain collaboration.
• Diagnose complex industrial and economic challenges using rigorous economic and financial analysis.
• Conduct applied research to inform industrial policy, cluster strategies and investment decisions.
• Facilitate workshops and strategic engagements that align diverse stakeholders around shared priorities.
• Build trusted relationships across industry, government, academia and development institutions.
• Translate complex analysis into clear, practical and compelling recommendations.
• Manage multi‑stakeholder projects that deliver measurable economic and developmental impact.
• Develop tools, programmes and interventions that strengthen localisation, innovation, sustainability and competitiveness.

Required profile

• Purpose‑driven with a strong motivation for manufacturing‑led employment creation.
• Belief in collaboration and industrial clusters as solutions to complex economic challenges.
• Systemic thinker who remains grounded in operational reality.
• Proven ability to solve complex problems using data and structured thinking.
• Organised, disciplined, proactive and able to communicate with commercial insight.

Required skills