Management Consulting – Senior Manager

The Management Consulting Team at Teneo

Our Management Consulting division focuses on answering key strategic questions for business and public-sector leaders through our mix of senior experience and rigorous analysis, combined with the unique expertise that exists across Teneo. We operate across a diverse array of sectors including Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Leisure & Hospitality, Software, Transport, and TMT, amongst others. Within these markets, we provide strategic, operational, and due diligence support, advising reputable FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 firms, key public-sector organisations, and leading private equity houses.  

Key Attributes

As a Senior Manager you’ll be an accomplished, consistent, effective member of the Teneo Consulting team whose focus is managing cases with the support of Managing Directors and developing the junior members of the team;

Key Responsibilities

• Structure and lead simple projects or large workstreams of complex ones, working directly with a Director or Managing Director
• Demonstrate a strong consulting skill set, with the ability to lead complex research & analysis programs, drive towards bespoke insights for clients, and structure written output
• Develop the “answer” from initial hypothesis through refinement and validation with senior colleagues and/ or clients (as appropriate)
• Proven ability managing case teams on a day-to-day basis, including delegating and planning workload, and providing coaching and development support to junior colleagues
• Support Directors and Managing Directors in all aspects of Business Development, including developing thought leadership, drafting proposals, and attending pitches
• Able to handle day-to-day liaison with senior clients, empathizing with their issues and escalating concerns where appropriate to Directors/ Managing Directors
• Lead presentations confidently and engagingly, effectively presenting our output to the client

Key Skills & Experience

• 7+ years’ relevant work experience ideally within a Strategy or Management Consulting environment
• Excellent analytical skills, and an entrepreneurial attitude
• Excellent communication skills and creativity
• Highly logical and numerate
• Evidence of teamwork, leadership, and ambition, alongside relevant work experience
• Degree Qualified (2.1 or above preferred) in any degree discipline
• Operates at a fast pace, demonstrating the ability to influence and challenge when needed
• Creates an immediate, positive, and credible impression on others
• Ensures all reports, data and written work are correct in detail and without error
• Can skillfully and confidently influence and negotiate and maintains a positive relationship with all parties during difficult conversations
• Proactively takes on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks
• Working knowledge of a major European language is an advantage but not required
• Specialisation is not expected, however preference will be considered in the allocation process (where competence is consistent across all sectors)

What can we offer you?

New joiners are supported by an induction programme, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support.  Six-monthly promotion opportunities mean high performers can rapidly rise through the firm.

Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects. 

Company Benefits  

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and rewards including;

• Competitive salary (depends on experience)
• 25 days holiday, in addition to three discretionary days, plus UK bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Pension Scheme
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.