Senior Consultants within performance improvement - for our team in Stockholm

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, financial services, 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 like helping companies unlock performance improvement opportunities and deliver profitable growth? Would you enjoy working alongside like-

minded peers who support each other as a team in a consultancy with a flat hierarchy? If so, you may be the perfect fit for our team. We are now looking for ambitious and experienced consultants to strengthen our Operations & Improvement team in Stockholm.

Our Operations and Improvement team works with clients across all major sectors. The team works on strategy through to implementation on issues critical to the growth and prosperity of business operations across the world. PA is home to a wide range of capabilities including our Global Engineering and Technology Centres, a strong Digital Strategy team as well as skilled People & Change leaders that allows us to drive performance improvement initiatives for our clients that can uncover opportunities beyond process improvement. Our typical client projects include:

• Enterprise wide cost reduction programs, including design-to-value innovation, cash flow management and sourcing optimsation
• Supply chain network and logistics optimization
• Manufacturing capacity improvement and scaling as well as manufacturing innovation
• Designing and delivering the supply chains and manufacturing capabilities of tomorrow including supply chain digitalization
• Agile transformations

What you’ll do

Within this role, you will lead the delivery of strategic and complex consulting engagements, including managing teams and senior clients. As a senior consultant, you like to play a key part in business development, sales initiatives and Thought Leadership, with the aim of further expanding competencies and propositions that help to acquire new assignments and clients, and to expand our existing clients and of course, the growth of your own career at PA.

• Drive performance improvement initiatives from strategy through execution
• Analyse performance, identify improvement opportunities and design solutions
• Manage project, drive PMOs and lead change
• Help clients realize business benefits through improved ways of working, digitalization and governance

We believe value is created through close collaboration with our clients. You will join an international environment that prioritizes teamwork, sparring and continuous learning so we can deliver outstanding work. We are therefore looking for someone with an open and curious approach to solving challenges and who is driven by acquiring new knowledge. Your employment with us starts with a thorough introduction. To support your development, you will from day one be assigned a manager and a buddy who, together with you, will prepare a development plan adapted to your skills and interests.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates who are curious, ambitious, and hungry to learn. As you should expect to be managing projects with responsibility for leading other consultants, we are searching for someone with a minimum of 3 years’ management consulting experience or similar. 

Ideally you will have:  

• 5 to 10 years of experience within the area of performance improvement, agile operations, operational excellence or supply chain management.
• Experience from consulting within the sectors of manufacturing, transport and/or defense.
• Demonstrated leadership in large, diverse project teams and the ability to work effectively across all organisational levels, delivering creative and impactful solutions.
• Energetic, positive team player committed to excellence and driven by achieving strong results together.

Join us if you want to:

• Work alongside experts in performance improvement, and change management advising decision-makers at global companies
• 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

Ready to make an impact and grow fast? Apply today.

Additional information

If it sounds like a challenge tailormade for you, then apply already today. We will be interviewing continuously, as we want the best candidates for the team.   

If you have any questions, please contact Sanna Austrell at sanna.austrell@paconsulting.com

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. 

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