Head of Consulting (m/f/d)

retarus GmbH; München; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobile work

Flexible working hours

Diverse company culture

Flat hierarchies

Career development

International collaboration

Health insurance

Lunch vouchers

Job summary

Retarus is seeking a Head of Consulting to lead and develop the Consulting organization across borders. You will establish methodologies, manage capacity, and drive high-quality delivery for strategic customer projects worldwide.

The role requires strong leadership, German and English fluency, and a track record of managing complex customer engagements in an international environment. The position offers mobile/remote options and collaboration across global teams.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in Technical Consulting or related roles, ideally international.
• Proven leadership with people development, performance, capacity, and prioritization.
• Experience managing end-to-end customer engagements from pre-sales to go-live.
• Ability to establish and improve consulting methodologies, standards, and processes.
• Strong customer and stakeholder management with a solution-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and continuously improve the Consulting organization and its employees.
• Take disciplinary and functional leadership responsibility for Consultants.
• Build and develop consulting capabilities, standards, and ways of working.
• Own capacity planning and prioritize pre-sales requests and projects.
• Ensure high delivery quality across customer projects.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product Management, and Demand & Process Management.

Skills

Leadership experience

People development

Stakeholder management

Communication

Decision making

Technical account management

Cross-border collaboration

German language proficiency

English language proficiency

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Become Head of Consulting (m/f/d) at Retarus.

Retarus is a worldwide provider of cloud-based messaging solutions at enterprise scale. We serve over 40% of the companies listed on the S&P Global 100, e.g. Adidas, Bayer, SAP, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, T-Systems, Swarovski & UPS, as well as governmental agencies and major players in markets across the world. Privately owned and founder-managed for over thirty years, Retarus is customer-oriented, stable, a fair employer, and a strategic business partner with a long-term vision. With some 500 employees in 19 offices on four continents, Retarus operates locally and thinks globally: our teams are organized across borders and are highly integrated. This makes Retarus a multicultural, multilingual, and engaging workplace. We are committed to creating a diverse and dynamic environment for our employees, with generous compensation, time off, and a global, collaborative workplace.

What we offer

• Mobile working and flexible working time
• Collaborative, diverse company culture and superior team spirit
• Flat hierarchies and great feedback culture
• Development opportunities & career perspective
• International business & cross-site collaboration
• Modern, dog-friendly offices with nice amenities
• Company-paid health insurance, public transportation, lunch vouchers and further benefits

What you'll do

• Lead, develop, and continuously improve the Consulting organization and its employees.
• Take disciplinary and functional leadership responsibility for the Consultants.
• Build and continuously develop overarching Consulting capabilities, methodologies, standards, and ways of working.
• Establish an integrated end-to-end Consulting approach covering both pre-sales and post-sales activities.
• Own capacity and resource planning and prioritize pre-sales requests and customer projects according to business priorities.
• Assign Consultants based on available capacity, required Consulting skills, and product expertise.
• Ensure high and consistent delivery quality across customer projects.
• Develop Consultants professionally and personally and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Define and track relevant Consulting KPIs and derive improvement measures.
• Act as escalation point for critical customer and project situations.
• Collaborate closely with Lead Consultants to ensure the required product-specific expertise is available and continuously developed within the Consulting organization.
• Work closely with Sales, Product Management, and Demand & Process Management to align priorities, customer requirements, capacity, and delivery.

What you'll need

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Business Informatics, or a related field; alternatively, equivalent practical experience with a strong technical, consulting, and leadership background
• Several years of experience in Technical Consulting, Professional Services, Solution Consulting, Solution Delivery, or a comparable customer-facing technical role, ideally in an international environment
• Proven leadership experience with responsibility for people development, team performance, capacity planning, resource allocation, and prioritization
• Strong experience managing complex technical customer engagements end-to-end, from pre-sales and solution design through implementation and go-live, including handling critical customer and project escalations
• Proven ability to establish and continuously improve consulting methodologies, standards, best practices, organizational structures, and ways of working
• Strong customer and stakeholder management skills, combined with a technical, solution-oriented mindset, excellent communication, sound decision-making, and a
• strong focus on quality and continuous improvement
• Very good / business-fluent German and English skills
• Ability to work effectively in an international and distributed organization

What you can expect

At Retarus, you will work on impactful and dynamic projects, with real opportunities to make a difference. Our customers are leaders across diverse industries, with constantly evolving needs and high expectations. You’ll be working with cutting-edge technology and great creative leeway to meet customers’ needs – and the projects you work on will be deployed globally. Working at Retarus, you will collaborate closely with convivial, culturally diverse teammates. You will grow professionally in a dynamic and exciting workplace and design impactful solutions in real time with top companies.

Very important
Come as you are. Retarus is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.