The technology organization of a major European retailer is currently undergoing significant operating model change across several of its engineering and product teams. A consulting firm is supporting two directors within this organization and is looking for an independent consultant to join the engagement.
You will work as a right hand to the lead consultant, turning direction into finished material, running the analysis behind organizational decisions, and taking discrete questions from a standing start to a recommendation. It is a hands-on delivery seat with real visibility — you will sit close to director-level decision-making in a large technology function, and you will be trusted to run pieces of work independently.
What you do
- Take a direction or a rough storyline and build it into finished, persuasive material for director-level audiences
- Own the quality of what goes in front of senior stakeholders - structure, narrative
- Run the analysis behind organizational change decisions, including team-level mapping of how people and responsibilities move between organizations
- Bring structure to questions that arrive undefined, and form a clear point of view from the evidence
- Pick up discrete workstreams end to end: work out the approach, identify who needs to be involved, and drive them to a conclusion
- Gather input from engineering leadership and senior engineers on technology strategy topics, including the use of AI across the software development lifecycle
- Work day to day with our lead consultant on the engagement
- Engage directly with the management teams of two technology directors, and with engineering teams as the work requires
What they ask
- Around 5–8 years of experience in management consulting, or in an in-house transformation or chief-of-staff function
- Hands-on experience implementing operating model or organizational change — not only designing it
- Exceptional storytelling and material craft, and a genuine willingness to build the work yourself rather than direct others to do it
- Strong structured analysis: you can take an ambiguous problem, break it down, get to the evidence, and form a view
- Enough technology grounding to be credible with engineering managers and senior engineers, and to follow a technical conversation without it being simplified for you
- Self-directed: you are given the destination and the guardrails, not a task list
- Fluent English, and the right to work in the EU
Desired.
- Training from a large consultancy or professional services firm
- Retail, e-commerce, or consumer sector experience
- Dutch language skills
- Prior experience in a chief-of-staff or program support role at director level
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