Managing Consultant; Director; Consumer & Manufacturing

We are PA Consulting, and we are not a traditional consulting firm. We are different in what we do and how we do it. We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.

Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Become part of the Team:

Are you an experienced professional with a strong track record of leading client engagements, building trusted relationships, and delivering tangible operational impact? Do you enjoy tackling complex operational and performance challenges, helping organisations improve efficiency, resilience, and cost competitiveness across their value chains?

Our Operations & Improvement team works with organisations across the world to help them understand current operational performance, identify improvement opportunities, and design and deliver pragmatic solutions that create measurable value. From end-to-end supply chain optimisation and manufacturing transformation, to cost reduction, productivity improvement and operating model design, we support our clients in strengthening their operational foundations and delivering lasting impact.

At PA, we pride ourselves on developing and delivering solutions that provide the fastest path to impact. As a result, we are looking for individuals who combine strong operations and process expertise with transformation and change experience, enabling them not only to design robust improvement initiatives, but also to lead delivery and realise benefits in practice.

We are expanding our Operations & Improvement capability in the Netherlands in response to growing market demand. You will work primarily with clients in the Consumer & Manufacturing industry, as well as adjacent sectors such as Energy & Utilities, Financial Services and Public Services. The role offers a blend of account leadership, delivery ownership, and business development, with responsibility for both maintaining and growing key client relationships.

Key aspects of the role include:

Leading the delivery of complex operational improvement engagements across key client accounts, ensuring high-quality outcomes, measurable benefits, and strong client satisfaction

Acting as a trusted adviser to senior client stakeholders on topics such as operational excellence, cost optimisation, supply chain performance, manufacturing and process improvement

Diagnosing current operational performance, identifying improvement opportunities, and designing pragmatic, data-driven initiatives that enhance efficiency, resilience, and value creation

Working with clients to define and deliver end-to-end improvements across operating models, processes, systems, and ways of working

Owning and growing key client accounts by identifying follow‑on opportunities, shaping client roadmaps, and contributing to long‑term account development strategies

Supporting business development activities, including opportunity identification, proposal development, commercial shaping, and client presentations

Contributing to thought leadership and capability development within the Operations…