Lead Consultant

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🕒 August 18, 2025

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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Newton Europe

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2001

🏢 Enterprise

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Enterprise • Government

Newton Europe is a consulting firm dedicated to delivering significant and lasting impact across various sectors, including government, healthcare, retail, and energy. They work closely with their clients to tackle complex challenges and drive meaningful change that benefits government entities, industries, and citizens alike. Through a collaborative approach, Newton Europe aims to unlock complexity and improve performance, resulting in significant financial benefits and efficiencies for their clients. The company is committed to sustainable and measurable change, seeking to create solutions that are built to last and ensure shared success with their clients. Their work spans numerous markets, including central and local government, consumer goods, defense, energy, healthcare, housing, utilities, retail, and transport.

📋 Description

• Deliver workstreams typically delivering value of ~£2m to the client; design solutions, identifying the right KPIs for yourself and your team, and driving continuous improvement • Manage a small team of consultants (no more than 4) through advanced analysis and modelling to identify the biggest opportunities, then lead your team and client to deliver them • Reviewing the proposed design for a workstream as created by the Principal Consultant or Business Manager in your programme • Working closely with programme leads to ensure your workstream KPIs are aligned to client organisational outcomes and wider goals • Aligning your team and client to measurable KPIs through design and implementation of effective governance that embeds a culture of continuous progress review day to day that enables successful delivery • Working on site, day to day with your client counterparts to review progress and problem solve to drive performance up, directly or through your teams, building your client's capability • Creating a clear, compelling story for stakeholders - from frontline managers to the senior managers – and working with programme leads to develop this for the senior client stakeholders to remove blockers to progress • Proactively escalating risks, and supporting with the adjustment of resource and commercial plans to keep the programme on track • Successful onboarding into one of Newton’s Clusters; opportunities to work across other clusters in line with business needs

🎯 Requirements

• Lead Consultant in Newton is likely to be at the early stages of a Manager grade (or equivalent title) or progressing towards that in another consulting firm, leading part of a programme with support from a programme lead and directly managing small teams. • You will be used to building and maintaining relationships with senior managers or heads of function or programme. • We will be looking for demonstrable experience in delivering multiple operational transformation and improvement projects with a focus on driving tangible outcomes in: • Defence • Infrastructure (mining & minerals, energy generation/transmission/distribution, water, transport) • Retail • Branded Consumer goods • Manufacturing • Local government • Central Government • Health & Integration • It is crucial to have the following skills and attributes to be successful in this role: • Building trusted relationships with clients and internal teams • Direct line management of a small team of multi-disciplined consultants • Purpose led analysis skills and ability to use logic to solve a problem • Resilience in solving highly complex problems • Collaborative nature, working with internal and external teams to get to the best outcome together • Proven track record for driving improvement or impact with an outcome focussed mindset • Willingness for self-development and commitment to supporting the development of others around you; actively seeks and gives feedback • Ambitious and driven; always strives for the best outcomes for self and others • Flexible and willing to work away from home • In order to support a great degree of flexibility in resourcing across our programmes, we are also ideally looking for individuals to already hold security clearance or be eligible to attain this prior to joining with support from Newton through that process. This is however not essential so please do still apply even if you don’t have this.

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive salary • Standardised sign-on bonus • Car allowance, life assurance, income protection, pension contributions and 28 days holiday (not including bank holidays) • Profit share and equity schemes • Regular appraisals and annual pay reviews • Dedicated Sponsor/Development Manager for career progression • Social calendar: Spring activity days, Christmas events, 2-day Summer event, 4 Newton-sponsored weekends