Operational Excellence Consultant

Valexis Consulting; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Valexis Consulting is a specialist PE-focused management consultancy seeking an Operational Excellence Consultant to drive performance improvements across portfolio companies in the UK. You will work with senior leaders and frontline teams to translate insights into tangible value.

Responsibilities include diagnosing performance, designing future-state operating models, and establishing KPI-driven improvements with measurable P&L impact, often in hybrid/remote client settings.

Qualifications

• Candidate with experience in operational excellence or performance improvement.
• Strong analytical problem solving and commercial understanding.
• Ability to work with senior leaders and frontline teams.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose operational performance and identify root causes of underperformance.
• Map and challenge processes, operating models and ways of working.
• Identify productivity, cost, service and working-capital opportunities.
• Design pragmatic future-state processes and operating models.
• Quantify improvements and build credible implementation cases.
• Establish KPIs and performance-management disciplines.
• Collaborate with management to implement improvements.
• Track benefits against the P&L.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Commercial acumen

Process expertise

Operating model expertise

Root-cause analysis

Pragmatism

Stakeholder management

Measurable outcomes

Job description

Operational Excellence Consultant

2026-09-16T00:00:00

Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear

GB

NE35 9JB

Any

2026-10-20T03:21:49.473

Can you see what's really stopping a business performing? A process map is useful. Finding the £2m hidden behind a broken process is considerably more interesting. Valexis Consulting works with PE-backed businesses to improve performance and create measurable enterprise value. We're looking to meet exceptional Operational Excellence and Performance Improvement consultants who combine rigorous analysis with the ability to get improvements implemented.

What you'll do

You’ll get under the skin of how portfolio companies actually operate and identify practical opportunities to improve performance. That could involve:

• Diagnosing operational performance and identifying the real causes of underperformance
• Mapping and challenging existing processes, operating models and ways of working
• Identifying productivity, cost, service and working-capital opportunities
• Designing pragmatic future-state processes and operating models
• Quantifying improvement opportunities and building credible implementation cases
• Establishing KPIs and performance-management disciplines
• Working alongside management teams to implement improvements
• Tracking whether expected benefits actually reach the P&L

Your job isn't simply to identify what's wrong. It's to help make it better.

What we're looking for

You might come from operational excellence, performance improvement, Lean, process transformation, management consulting or hands‑on operational leadership. We're particularly interested in people who can combine:

• Strong analytical problem solving
• Commercial understanding
• Process and operating-model expertise
• An ability to distinguish symptoms from root causes
• Pragmatism about what businesses can actually implement
• Confidence working with senior leaders and frontline teams
• A relentless focus on measurable outcomes

PE experience is useful, but not mandatory. Understanding the relationship between operational performance, EBITDA and enterprise value is more important.

About Valexis

Valexis is a specialist PE-focused management consultancy. We work embedded with portfolio companies to translate value creation plans into results. That means getting into the detail, finding what matters and helping management make change happen.

The opportunity

We're growing our network for current and upcoming Valexis engagements across the UK. Assignments may be remote or hybrid with travel to client sites as required. If you enjoy finding performance that others have missed, we'd like to hear from you.