Strategic Consultant

Pax8 is hiring a Strategic Consultant in Zwolle, the Netherlands to work alongside the leaders of our technology partners, uncover what is holding their businesses back and help them move forward with clarity and confidence.

You’ll lead transformational workshops, challenge established thinking and turn complex conversations into practical growth strategies, recommendations and roadmaps. From leadership and culture to sales, operations and long-term strategy, you’ll see the real-world impact of your work on businesses and the people behind them.

You’ll join a close-knit and evolving Academy consultancy team, with the autonomy to shape partner experiences across Europe. As Pax8 continues its AI journey, you’ll combine emerging technology with the things it cannot replace: human curiosity, emotional intelligence and the ability to inspire meaningful change.

🌍 Join a culture built around growth

Learning isn’t something that happens once a year. Curiosity, different perspectives and continuous development are central to how this team works. You’ll be encouraged to explore ideas, deepen your expertise and bring your own perspective to an established but growing consultancy practice.

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🎯 What you’ll be doing

• Transform partner businesses: Facilitate engaging workshops that help leaders identify opportunities, tackle challenges and turn strategy into clear action.
• Influence at the highest level: Build trusted relationships with senior and board-level stakeholders, asking insightful questions and constructively challenging thinking.
• Turn insight into action: Bring workshop findings, observations and business information together into clear executive recommendations and practical roadmaps.
• Create lasting partnerships: Work closely with partners throughout their growth journey, becoming a trusted adviser rather than simply delivering one-off engagements.
• Connect across Pax8: Collaborate with sales, Academy colleagues and subject-matter experts to create joined-up experiences for our partners.
• Share what you know: Deliver compelling presentations at masterclasses, briefings and industry events while helping colleagues develop their own consultancy capability.
• Keep learning: Grow your knowledge of business transformation, coaching and the technology landscape, bringing new thinking back into the team.
• Get close to our partners: Travel regularly across Europe to participate in partner workshops and engagements.

✨ The impact you’ll make

Your work can influence far more than a single workshop. You’ll help partners change how they operate, support their growth and strengthen their relationship with Pax8. As the consultancy practice scales, you’ll also help shape what great strategic partner support looks like and leave a lasting impact on the businesses you work with.

🧠 What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone who combines consultancy expertise with genuine curiosity about people and businesses.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Proven consultancy experience, ideally within technology, digital transformation or business change.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to move comfortably between big-picture strategy and practical actions.
• Experience influencing and communicating with executive and board-level stakeholders.
• Excellent facilitation skills and confidence guiding challenging, meaningful conversations.
• The ability to build rapport and trust quickly with different personalities and audiences.
• A coaching mindset, with business coaching experience or training particularly valuable.
• Intellectual curiosity and a genuine appetite for continuous learning.
• A collaborative approach. You’ll enjoy succeeding as part of a team while being comfortable working autonomously.
• Strong written and spoken English. Additional European languages are welcome.
• The flexibility and enthusiasm to travel regularly for partner engagements across Europe.

Experience in the technology channel is useful but not essential. We’re much more interested in your ability to consult, coach, communicate and understand how businesses grow.

🤝 Building trust from the beginning

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust-based relationships — starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.

We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritising applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.

🌈 Bring your whole perspective

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in Netherlands.

💙 Salary & Benefits

Salary in between €55,000 – €70,000 depending on experience

• Bonus: Annual performance bonus
• Long term incentive plan (Stock options)
• Time Off: 26 days annual leave + 8% holiday allowance
• Reimbursement for travel expenses
• Hybrid Work: Flexibility to work from home and our Zwolle office
• Dedicated time for training and personal development
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• Health & Wellbeing coaching support
• Fun and frequent company and team socials

🏡 Hybrid working in the Netherlands

This is a hybrid Netherlands-based role. The hiring plan is built around regular office visibility alongside significant travel to partner workshops, giving you the flexibility of hybrid work while keeping you connected to colleagues and the partners you support.

📈 Grow with us

There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.

☁️ About Pax8

Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life.

🔐 Background Checks

As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.

🌎 Equal Opportunities

Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes. Privacy notice: https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/