A restructure doesn't erase what you built. It just means the next chapter happens somewhere that actually wants it.

Recent rounds of restructuring across the Big 4 have put a lot of genuinely strong consulting talent back on the market often through no reflection on performance at all. If you're a Senior Manager or Director recently impacted by a restructure/redundancy at one of the Big 4 or a comparable advisory firm, this role with our client is built for exactly what you bring: deep client relationships, sector expertise and the ability to run engagements end to end. Even if you are employed but not happy with the firm’s direction it might be time for a positive change. We're not asking you to prove yourself again from scratch. We're asking you to bring what you already know how to do, into a role with a bigger mandate and a faster start date.

Why This Role, Right Now

- A fast, decisive process and we know the value of not leaving strong candidates in limbo, and we're set up to move quickly from conversation to offer from our client.
- Your experience is the qualification. We're hiring for what you've already delivered, not for how you frame a gap on your CV.
- Executive Team seat from day one a genuine leadership mandate, not a rebuild-your-reputation holding role.
- A real equity pathway after a qualifying period, rather than a multi-year partnership queue that's just been reset by a restructure.
- Full P&L; and practice ownership across a national consulting function and build it your way, not inside someone else's org chart.
- A platform for the brand and sector profile you've already built media, speaking, thought leadership backed by an organisation ready to invest in it.
- A mandate to build and mentor the next generation of consulting directors and principals.

The Opportunity





This is a national role within a matrix structure, covering product and services development as well as oversight of consulting engagements, profitability and client satisfaction across the practice. You'll lead the consulting directors and principal consultants who run our service lines, and you'll shape how we go to market.

You’ll be trusted to run this like your own business within the business identifying and developing recent services, leading RFP responses and client demos, and building the practice management engine (tools, methodologies, people development) that lets the firm scale.

What You'll Own

Business & Service Development

- Create and convert demand through superior client relationships and market positioning.
- Design new, differentiated consulting solutions and take them to market.
- Represent the firm externally public speaking, media, sector commentary.
- Shape scope, risk and commercial structure on strategic engagements from the outset.

Engagement & Delivery Leadership

- Oversee delivery teams across multiple concurrent engagements to firm-wide quality standards.
- Own profitability and client satisfaction across the portfolio, not just a single account.

Client & Executive Relationships

- Operate as trusted advisor to C-suite, boards and executive teams on strategy, growth and change.
- Manage the full commercial relationship and value proposition,



resourcing, budgets, billing and collections.
- Sit on the Executive Management Team, contributing directly to strategic and operational planning.
- Act as a thought leader for the firm and the broader financial services sector.
- Build future capability recruiting, mentoring and developing the next bench of consulting leaders.

What You Bring

We're looking for someone who was recently operating at Senior Manager or Director level inside a Big 4 or major advisory firm — whatever the circumstances of your move on.

- Strength in professional services or strategy consulting, including experience leading engagement teams and owning client P&L.;
- Deep domain knowledge of financial services regulation and risk superannuation and/or wealth management and/or aged care experience is highly valued.
- A track record of converting relationships into revenue: RFP leadership, consultative selling and enterprise deal experience.
- Comfort operating at Board and C-suite level, translating technical solutions into commercial outcomes.
- Experience building and leading consulting teams in a matrixed, multi-stakeholder environment.
- A tertiary qualification in a commercial discipline.
- A client network and reputation that travels with you we know it's one of the most valuable things you carry into a new firm.

Remuneration

Base salary plus superannuation and bonus, the ability to purchase additional annual leave, and after a qualifying period equity participation. A Genuine ownership stake in the outcome you're building, available sooner than a reset partnership clock would allow.

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