Management Consultant in North East

Delivery Manager – Management Consulting

Location: Initial assignment in the Manchester area, followed by client engagements across the UK
Salary: £66,000–£83,000
Additional package: £4,800 car allowance, performance bonus and comprehensive benefits
Working pattern: Client site Monday to Thursday; remote working on Friday

The opportunity

Match Performance is supporting an established and growing management consultancy in the appointment of a Delivery Manager.

This is a hands-on consulting role for someone who can lead small delivery teams, work directly with clients and turn analysis into measurable operational improvement.

The initial requirement is for a client engagement in and around Manchester, so candidates should ideally be based in the North West, Yorkshire or within practical travelling distance. Future projects may be based elsewhere in the UK.

You will typically lead a team of two to three consultants while working closely with stakeholders ranging from senior executives to frontline managers. You will help clients understand the causes of underperformance, implement practical solutions and embed the management behaviours needed to sustain the improvement.

This is not a remote advisory position. You will be visible within the client organisation, actively involved in delivery and accountable for achieving results.

What we’re looking for

We are interested in experienced management consultants and transformation professionals who combine analytical capability with a practical delivery style.

You should be comfortable entering an unfamiliar organisation, quickly understanding how it operates and working alongside its people to deliver improvement.

Essential experience

• A successful record of leading transformation, operational improvement or organisational-efficiency projects

• Management consulting or equivalent client-facing delivery experience

• Experience leading small project, consulting or transformation teams

• Evidence of delivering measurable improvements rather than only producing recommendations

• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills

• Experience implementing new processes, management disciplines or ways of working

• The ability to coach, challenge and influence managers constructively

• Excellent stakeholder and client-relationship skills

• Confidence communicating with senior executives, managers and frontline teams

• The ability to adapt your communication style to different audiences

• A willingness to work onsite with clients from Monday to Thursday

• Flexibility to travel throughout the UK and occasionally internationally

• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

Particularly relevant backgrounds

We would be interested in candidates with experience in areas such as:

• Operational performance improvement

• Organisational efficiency

• Management consulting

• Procurement or supply-chain transformation

• Process optimisation

• Lean or continuous improvement

• Productivity and capacity improvement

• Behavioural change

• Target operating model implementation

• Management operating systems

• Cost or margin improvement

• Customer-service transformation

• Programme or project delivery

• Performance reporting and governance