(Senior) Consulting Manager (all genders)

NZZone; Hamburg; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Global Zühlke community

Professional development commitments

Job summary

Zühlke is seeking a (Senior) Consulting Manager to join the Digital Consulting Practice. You will work with leading organisations on strategic, complex initiatives at the intersection of Business, Data and IT, serving as a trusted partner to clients and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high‑quality outcomes.

As a senior consultant, you will lead engagements across strategy, data, and IT, advising on digital business models, AI-powered transformations, and innovative product

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of consulting experience.
• Experience in Energy, MedTech & Health, FSI, Banking or industrial environments is a strong plus.
• Proven expertise in Data & AI or IT transformations, digital business model innovation or digital product development.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex topics into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, bridging business, engineering, and technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support consulting engagements related to product innovations, digital business model innovations, digital strategy, Data & AI transformations and IT strategy.
• Translate business challenges into structured analytical approaches and actionable solutions across business, technology, and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across strategy, data, engineering, UX, and delivery.
• Take responsibility for client communication, structured analyses, and high‑quality consulting deliverables.
• Help organisations build and scale Data & AI capabilities, including operating models, governance, data platforms and people enablement.

Skills

Data & AI

IT transformations

Digital product development

Stakeholder mgmt

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Job description

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future - to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

The Role

The Digital Consulting Practice is the business consulting unit delivering both strategy and implementation projects. We support the Zühlke Group from sales to delivery and ongoing relationship management as trusted advisors to our clients. Our consultants advise senior client management from Business, Data and IT in both short-term engagements and large transformation programmes.

As a (Senior) Consulting Manager you will work with leading organisations on strategic and complex initiatives focusing on the intersections of Business, Data and IT. You act as a trusted partner to our clients and work closely with their teams to ensure their challenges are successfully translated in impactful, high-quality outcomes.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead or support consulting engagements related to product innovations, digital business model innovations, digital strategy, Data & AI transformations and IT strategy
• Advise clients in cross-industry environments such as Energy, MedTech & Health, FSI, Banking and further industries
• Translate business challenges into structured analytical approaches and actionable solutions across business, technology, and engineering teams
• Help organisations build and scale Data & AI capabilities, including operating models, governance, compliance, data platforms and people enablement
• Support the development of new business models and digital value propositions enabled by technology and data
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across strategy, data, engineering, UX, and delivery
• Take responsibility for client communication, structured analyses, and high-quality consulting deliverables

What’s important to us

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field
• At least 5 years of consulting experience
• Experience in the following industries are a strong plus: Energy, MedTech & Health, FSI, Banking or industrial environments
• Proven expertise in Data & AI or IT transformations, digital business model innovation or digital product development
• Strong analytical skills combined with the ability to translate complex topics into actionable insights
• High client-orientation with deep experience in managing stakeholders and delivering impactful client engagements
• Excellent communication and presentation skills as wells as the talent to bridge business, engineering, and technology perspectives
• Willingness to work on-site at least two days per week
• Fluent German and English language skills (spoken and written)

What we offer

• Work life blend:we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and, depending on client needs, the option to work from home up to three days per week
• Profit share scheme:In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company’s success in the previous year
• Global and Diverse Zühlke community:witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.
• Committed to development:we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We’re empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.

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We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.