Operational Excellence Consultant

Valexis Consulting; Plympton; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel opportunities

PE-focused professional network

Job summary

Valexis Consulting is seeking an exceptional Operational Excellence Consultant in the Plymouth area. The role focuses on diagnosing performance gaps, designing future-state processes, and delivering measurable improvements across PE-backed portfolio companies in the UK.

Ideal candidates combine rigorous analysis with hands-on implementation, engaging with senior leaders and frontline teams to translate insights into value. Travel to client sites will be required as part of engagements.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical problem solving
• Commercial understanding
• Process and operating-model expertise
• Ability to distinguish symptoms from root causes
• Pragmatism about what can actually be implemented
• Confidence working with senior leaders and frontline teams
• Relentless focus on measurable outcomes
• PE experience is useful but not mandatory; EBITDA/value awareness

Responsibilities

• Diagnose operational performance and identify real causes of underperformance
• Map and challenge existing processes, operating models and ways of working
• Identify productivity, cost, service and working-capital opportunities
• Design pragmatic future-state processes and operating models
• Quantify improvement opportunities and build credible implementation cases
• Establish KPIs and performance-management disciplines
• Work alongside management teams to implement improvements
• Track whether expected benefits actually reach the P&L

Skills

Analytical problem solving

Commercial understanding

Process & operating-model expertise

Root-cause analysis

Pragmatism

Stakeholder engagement

Measurable outcomes

PE experience (useful)

Job description

Operational Excellence Consultant

2026-09-16T00:00:00

Plymouth

Devon

GB

PL1 1

Any

2026-10-20T03:21:51.397

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.

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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.