Managing Consultant

Managing Consultant – Professional Services Operations & Technology

Location: UK (Remote with occasional London travel)

About the Role

We are recruiting on behalf of a specialist consulting firm supporting professional services organisations and investors with growth, operational improvement and value creation. The firm is a senior, hands-on team known for high standards and deep expertise.

As a Managing Consultant, you will lead client engagements, shape technology-enabled solutions, contribute to business development, and help grow a developing tech enablement practice. This role suits someone who blends traditional consulting capability with real operational understanding of how a consultancy works day to day.

Within 12–18 months, you will be leading engagements independently, generating follow-on work, producing thought leadership and building a small pipeline of your own.

Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery & Advisory

• Lead client projects end-to-end, including planning, delivery management and executive communication.
• Advise on technology enablement for professional services firms (PSA, CRM, HRIS, finance systems and emerging AI).
• Analyse operational performance (KPIs, reporting, delivery processes, resourcing, revenue operations).
• Translate operational challenges into practical, technology-enabled solutions.
• Support clients with governance, project financials and management information.
• Manage scope, commercials, risk and resourcing.

Business Development

• Contribute to proposals, pricing and shaping new work.
• Build trusted client relationships to generate sell-on opportunities.
• Develop your own network and nurture early-stage pipeline.

Internal Development & Thought Leadership

• Help refine and improve delivery methodologies and frameworks.
• Play a key role in building the firm's technology enablement offering.
• Explore how AI can be used in professional services and in internal delivery.
• Create thought leadership and market-facing insights.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with partners and senior stakeholders.
• Mentor junior team members as the firm grows.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Strong consulting background with experience in senior operational roles inside a consultancy.
• Proven ability to lead client engagements and deliver high-quality outputs.
• Deep understanding of consulting operations (delivery models, commercial processes, project financials).
• Business-level experience with PSA, CRM, HRIS or finance systems in a professional services context.
• Ability to design technology-enabled solutions without being a deep technologist.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Highly organised, self-starting and detail-oriented.
• Interest in industry trends and the future of consulting.

Preferred Experience

• Value creation, operating model design, operations due diligence or delivery improvement.
• Experience in tech-enabled change in professional services.
• Exposure to AI-related initiatives.
• Experience helping shape or build internal propositions or methodologies.

Cultural Fit

• Professional, collaborative and grounded.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and shaping evolving work.
• Committed to high standards without unnecessary formality.
• Curious and willing to learn quickly — especially in emerging technology areas.

Practical Requirements

• UK-based with the right to work in the UK.
• Home-based role with London travel 2–3 times per month.
• Willingness to travel for client engagements when needed.

If you are keen to hear and discuss further, apply directly or email me directly at carolina@tarkatalent.co.uk!