Management Consultants within Performance Improvement

PA Consulting; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

PA Consulting in Stockholm is seeking ambitious Consultants and Senior Consultants to strengthen our Operations & Improvement team. You will work on end-to-end transformation projects, delivering performance improvements across strategy, operations, engineering, and technology.

You will join an international, collaborative environment that values knowledge sharing and continuous learning, with opportunities to lead client relationships, manage complex programs and contribute to business

Qualifications

• Experience within performance improvement, agile operations, operational excellence and/or supply chain management.
• Consulting or transformation experience within sectors such as manufacturing, transport and/or defence.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• A collaborative, positive and results-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Drive performance improvement initiatives from strategy through execution, analysing performance, identifying opportunities and designing practical solutions.
• Manage projects, deliverables and timelines, including PMO activities, while supporting and leading organisational and operational change.
• Work closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams to deliver sustainable business benefits through improved ways of working, digitalisation and governance.
• At more senior levels, lead project teams and client relationships, while contributing to business development, sales initiatives and thought leadership.

Skills

Performance improvement

Agile operations

Operational excellence

Supply chain management

Consulting experience

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Job description

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Job Description

Do you enjoy helping companies unlock performance improvement opportunities and deliver profitable growth? Would you like to work alongside like-minded colleagues who support each other in a collaborative consultancy with a flat hierarchy? If so, you may be a great fit for our team.

We are looking for ambitious Consultants and Senior Consultants to strengthen our Operations & Improvement team in Stockholm.

Our Operations & Improvement team works with clients across major sectors, helping them tackle challenges critical to the performance, growth and resilience of their operations. We work from strategy through to implementation, combining expertise across operations, engineering and technology, digital strategy, and people and change to deliver improvements that go beyond traditional process optimisation.

• Enterprise-wide cost reduction programmes, including design-to-value innovation, cash flow management and sourcing optimisation
• Supply chain network and logistics optimisation
• Manufacturing capacity improvement, scaling and innovation
• Designing and delivering the supply chains and manufacturing capabilities of tomorrow, including supply chain digitalisation
• Operational excellence and performance improvement
• Agile and broader business transformations

What You’ll Do

Depending on your experience, you will support or lead the delivery of strategic and complex consulting engagements, working on end-to-end transformation projects and taking increasing responsibility for client relationships, project delivery and team leadership.

You will:

• Drive performance improvement initiatives from strategy through execution, analysing performance, identifying opportunities and designing practical solutions.
• Manage projects, deliverables and timelines, including PMO activities, while supporting and leading organisational and operational change.
• Work closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams to deliver sustainable business benefits through improved ways of working, digitalisation and governance.
• At more senior levels, lead project teams and client relationships, while contributing to business development, sales initiatives and thought leadership.

We believe value is created through close collaboration with our clients. You will join an international environment that prioritises teamwork, knowledge sharing and continuous learning so that we can deliver outstanding work.

From day one, you will be supported by a dedicated manager and buddy who will help you develop a plan tailored to your skills, interests and career ambitions.

Qualifications

We are looking for people who are curious, ambitious and eager to learn, with experience in management consulting and/or transformation projects.

Ideally, you will bring:

• Experience within performance improvement, agile operations, operational excellence and/or supply chain management
• Consulting or transformation experience within sectors such as manufacturing, transport and/or defence
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities
• A collaborative, positive and results-oriented approach
• For more senior candidates, experience managing projects, leading consulting teams and working with senior client stakeholders

We welcome candidates at different stages of their consulting careers.

Join us if you want to:

• Work alongside experts in performance improvement, change management and, advising decision-makers at global brands
• Take on complex business challenges and gain responsibility early, accelerating your career growth
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Nordics, Europe, and the US in a truly international environment

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in Sweden.

As part of our recruitment process we use Sterling ADP to carry out background screening checks towards the end of the recruitment process.