[Hiring] Management Consultant @Tailored Talent

Role Description

The Management Consultant is the senior-most presence on a client engagement, with accountability spanning the full lifecycle, from initial diagnostic and scoping through implementation plan development and execution. The Management Consultant leads the project team, owns the client relationship at the executive and steering committee level, and serves as the primary escalation point between client and TBM leadership. Key responsibilities include:

• Own end-to-end engagement delivery: lead the project team to execute against plan, ensuring committed results are achieved on time, within scope, and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Serve as primary client relationship owner: cultivate trusted advisor relationships with C-suite, economic buyers, plant managers, and key stakeholders.
• Lead initial diagnostic and current-state assessment: rapidly identify operational gaps and value creation opportunities; synthesize findings into a clear picture for client leadership.
• Drive scoping and implementation plan development: define work streams, sequence initiatives, resource the team, and establish the baseline plan against which results are tracked.
• Support hands-on implementation of select work streams: directly lead critical areas as engagement complexity or client need requires.
• Drive steering committee effectiveness: facilitate regular steering meetings, keep leadership informed of progress and risks, and escalate critical issues proactively.
• Manage resource utilization: monitor team capacity against plan and partner with the Consulting Team Leader to secure or reallocate resources as needed.
• Ensure quality of work delivered: review key deliverables, uphold TBM’s standards for analytical rigor, and ensure outputs translate to measurable client ROI.
• Drive account growth: proactively identify expansion opportunities within active engagements, develop and present follow-on scopes, and build a pipeline of new work from existing client relationships.
• Model TBM values: set the standard for professionalism, integrity, and client-first mindset across the engagement team.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of operations, manufacturing, or consulting experience.
• Proven lean transformation track record.
• Broad operations and supply chain expertise.
• Commercial and financial acumen.
• Strong analytical capability.
• ERP systems knowledge and AI fluency.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Executive presence: commands credibility with C-suite and senior stakeholders.
• Consultative selling mindset.
• Team leader and coach.
• Influential communicator.
• High bias for action with strong judgment.
• Results-oriented and collaborative.

Benefits

• Live anywhere in the US (within reasonable proximity to a major airport).
• Travel expectations: a typical engagement week begins with arrival at the client site by midday Monday and departure on Friday around noon.
• 100% employee-owned (ESOP eligible).
• Competitive base salary and bonus.
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, and 401k with match.
• Onboarding and career development across multiple industries.
• Regular training led by seasoned TBM professionals.
• A collaborative team culture with strong camaraderie.

Company Description

Our client is an operations and supply chain consulting firm with offices across North America and Europe. They serve manufacturers, distributors, service organizations, private equity firms, and their portfolio companies. With 150+ consultants across two continents, they are well-positioned to support large-footprint, multinational clients.

A pioneer in lean manufacturing for over 35 years, their specialties span operational excellence, supply chain management, human capital strategy, private equity value creation, digital manufacturing, and management system implementation.