Project Lead - Management Consulting

What this role is:

Transition Partners is being built by people who left big-firm consulting (our partners are ex-McKinsey) and went into the arena. We've run teams, owned P&Ls, shipped changes, and lived with the consequences. We believe that strategy only matters when it survives execution.

As a Project Lead, you run the day-to-day of the engagement. You don't "support the answer." You own it.

Your mandate:

Turn messy, senior problems into a plan that gets executed, and show measurable movement in the business.

What you will do:

- Own the engagement end-to-end (strategy - execution cadence - results).

- Frame the problem with CXOs, set the path, drive decisions, and stay until outcomes show up.

Lead a small elite team (2 - 4):

- High standards, clean thinking, fast iterations.

- Run an operating rhythm that makes outcomes inevitable.

- Clear weekly cadence, KPI dashboarding, issue-resolution, decision logs, stakeholder management.

Build trust through clarity:

- Sharp narratives for the room. Short artifacts. Clean logic.

- Use AI as a force multiplier (practical, not performative).

- Automate the grind, accelerate insight cycles, prototype workflows. AI that ships.

How we work:

- Autonomy is real. If you need constant partner steering, this won't fit.

- We don't worship heroics. Intensity happens in spikes; we plan recovery.

- We don't do thrash. If direction changes, we re-scope, re-plan, and reset expectations.

- We optimise for outcomes, not optics. Fewer meetings, tighter artifacts, decisive follow-through.

What "good" looks like:

- The client calls you first.

- Decisions happen faster because you're in the room.

- The plan survives contact with reality.

- Metrics move (revenue, margin, cost, cycle time, conversion, risk).

- Your team gets sharper working with you.

Who this is for:

- 8 - 16 years in top-tier consulting, transformation, or senior operator roles.

- You've led work, not just contributed to it.

- You can be direct with senior clients and still keep them with you.

- You're fluent with modern AI tools and use them to ship better work faster.

Compensation:

- Compensation reflects the seniority and ownership this role demands. We will share specifics in the first conversation.

Why people join TP (and stay):

- Ownership: fewer layers, real decision rights.

- Outcomes: you stay through the hard part.

- Sane intensity: predictable cadence, spikes if required, no permanent fire drills.

- Culture: low politics, low thrash, high standards.