Client Project Lead

Lodha Partners; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Client Project Lead to develop outstanding client solutions and manage client engagement. The ideal candidate will have at least 6 years of professional experience, an undergraduate degree from a top-tier institution, and skills in creative problem-solving, project management, and communication. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders and lead a research team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience.
• Ability to manage multiple client projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support Partners in managing client engagement and needs.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of client solutions.
• Lead research team to extract insights.
• Synthesize insights into high-quality client-ready materials.

Skills

Creative thinking

Emotional intelligence

Excellent communication

Strong project management

Self-directed

Education

Undergraduate degree from a top-tier institution

Job description

The Role

As a Client Project Lead, you will play a pivotal role in crafting outstanding client solutions. Working closely with 2–3 Partners, you’ll help them deeply understand their clients’ needs, interpret nuanced briefs, and bring clarity and structure to complex situations.

Responsibilities

• Supporting Partners to manage client activity and engagement, staying across and ahead of client needs and priorities
• Manage end-to-end design, development and delivery of client solutions – combining rigorous research with strong intuition and judgement
• Determine the insights or access required to solve client needs, and identify optimal sources from either within or beyond the existing network
• Lead the research team in extracting insights from the network
• Contribute to the identification and cultivation of human intelligence sources and networks
• Assess incoming reports and information to ensure accuracy and relevance
• Identify gaps in the research or network and guide the team in addressing them
• Synthesise and translate insights into high-quality (concise, high impact, differentiated) client-ready materials
• Brief partners on client solutions

What we’re looking for

• Solutions Development : Creative, curious, resourceful and relentlessly focused on delivering differentiated insight. You approach problems from unconventional angles and have strong judgement in separating signal from noise.
• Emotional Intelligence : You are able to read people, tone, and context intuitively.
• Communication : You produce clear, concise, client-ready materials and communicate confidently with senior stakeholders.
• Project Management : Highly organised, structured, and capable of managing multiple concurrent client projects at any one time.
• Self-directed : Comfortable operating in the entrepreneurial, ambiguous, and unstructured environment that comes with a small, but growing firm.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree from a top-tier institution and with ~6 years or more of professional experience.