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United Kingdom · Internal Consulting · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Principal Assurance Consultant

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  • Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
  • Direct reports3-5 reports
  • Reports toDirector, Portfolio Assurance
  • UK framework levelUsually someone running a function, or a director

Also advertised as Delivery Assurance Manager · Senior Assurance Lead · Portfolio Assurance Specialist · Head of Assurance Practice

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1What this role really is

You're the ultimate expert in making sure our biggest, most complex change programmes actually deliver what they promise. This isn't about ticking boxes; it's about getting under the bonnet of multi-million-pound initiatives, spotting the icebergs before they hit, and shaping the very way we assure delivery across the entire organisation. You'll be the go-to person when a major transformation starts looking wobbly, providing the deep technical and strategic guidance needed to get it back on track – or, frankly, to recommend pulling the plug.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Planview / Clarity PPMStrategic

Leading vendor selection and renewal for enterprise PPM tools, designing the overarching PPM framework, and integrating PPM data with corporate finance systems for strategic reporting and decision-making.

Jira & ConfluenceArchitect

Setting enterprise-wide standards for Jira/Confluence usage, governing integrations with other tools, and defining the strategic direction for how these platforms support agile delivery assurance.

Power BI / TableauStrategic

Governing the enterprise analytics platform, defining the data strategy for portfolio-level insights, and presenting high-level assurance insights and trends to the C-suite and Board.

ServiceNow GRC / ArcherArchitect

Designing and implementing the enterprise GRC framework within the tool, defining risk appetite thresholds, and ensuring seamless integration of GRC with other enterprise systems for holistic risk management.

Miro / MuralStrategic

Championing visual collaboration tools across the organisation, establishing a centre of excellence for collaborative assurance workshops, and driving adoption of best practices for remote and hybrid teams.

Advanced ExcelStrategic

Using Excel for complex scenario modelling, high-level financial analysis, and 'sanity checking' multi-million-pound programme budgets to support strategic portfolio decisions and challenge programme forecasts.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Programme 'Go/No-Go' at Executive Gate ReviewProvides data and flags inconsistencies to Senior Consultant.Recommends 'Go/No-Go' to Senior Consultant, highlighting key risks.Presents evidence-based 'Go/No-Go' recommendation to Programme Director, with rationale.
Assurance Framework Design & ImplementationFollows existing templates and processes.Proposes minor improvements to existing processes.Designs and implements new assurance processes for specific programme types.
Resource Allocation within Assurance TeamNo authority; assigned tasks by supervisor.Suggests task allocation for self based on capacity.Allocates tasks to junior analysts on specific programmes, with manager oversight.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Cost Avoidance from Early Project Termination/Redirection
The quantifiable financial savings achieved by identifying failing projects early and recommending their termination or significant redirection before substantial investment is wasted.
Target · Identify and influence £5M+ in annual cost avoidance.

Reviewing a £10M programme, you identify critical flaws and recommend stopping it after £1M spent, avoiding £9M in further losses. Or, you redirect a £20M programme, saving £5M by cutting scope early.

Improvement in Enterprise Portfolio Success Rate
The percentage increase in programmes delivered on-time, on-budget, and realising their intended benefits across the entire portfolio you influence.
Target · Contribute to a 10-15% year-over-year improvement in enterprise-wide on-time, on-budget delivery metrics for major programmes.

If last year 60% of major programmes hit their targets, your influence helps us reach 66-69% this year.

Strategic Alignment of Project Investment
The proportion of significant project investment that is demonstrably aligned with the top 3 corporate strategic objectives, as validated through robust assurance.
Target · Ensure >90% of major programme investment is clearly aligned with the top 3 corporate strategic objectives.

During a portfolio review, you challenge a £2M project that doesn't clearly support our 'Digital First' or 'Customer Experience' goals, leading to its re-evaluation or re-scoping.

Influence on Strategic Decisions
Your ability to influence executive-level decisions regarding portfolio health, investment choices, and risk appetite, often based on your insights.
  • You're proactively invited to Executive Committee meetings to present assurance findings. Your recommendations are consistently acted upon, even when unpopular. Programme Directors seek your advice before formal reviews. You're asked to help shape the annual strategic planning process.
Quality & Evolution of Assurance Frameworks
The effectiveness, practicality, and continuous improvement of the assurance methodologies, tools, and standards you design and champion.
  • Internal feedback from programme teams praises the clarity and value of the assurance process. Your frameworks are adopted as best practice across the organisation. You regularly publish updates and training materials. External audit reviews commend our assurance maturity.
Stakeholder Trust & Credibility
The level of trust and respect you've built with senior leaders, allowing you to deliver challenging news constructively and maintain effective working relationships.
  • Senior leaders seek your counsel even on sensitive topics. You're seen as a trusted advisor, not just a 'project police'. You can have frank, direct conversations without damaging relationships. You're able to mediate conflicts between programme teams and sponsors effectively.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Preventing Disaster & Protecting Value

You get a real kick out of identifying a significant risk that others have missed, knowing your intervention has saved the company from a major financial hit or reputational damage. You enjoy the detective work of uncovering 'benefits leakage' and holding people accountable for delivering the promised value.

Stopping a £15M programme that was clearly failing, saving £10M in future spend, and redirecting resources to a more viable initiative.

Driving Organisational Improvement

You're not content with just fixing one programme; you want to improve the entire system. You'll spend time designing better assurance frameworks, developing new tools, and mentoring others to elevate the overall capability of the Internal Consulting function.

Developing and rolling out a new, more effective 'Tollgate' review process that measurably reduces the number of 'watermelon projects'.

Strategic Impact & Influence

You thrive on being a trusted advisor to senior leadership, knowing your insights directly inform critical investment decisions and shape the company's strategic direction. You enjoy the intellectual challenge of synthesising complex information into clear, actionable recommendations for the C-suite.

Presenting a consolidated view of portfolio risk to the Executive Committee, leading to a reprioritisation of major strategic initiatives.

What frustrates people
  • Being held accountable for programme health without direct authority to force corrective action.
  • Dealing with 'green-shifting' and programme managers downplaying serious issues.
  • Receiving hundreds of pages of documentation 12 hours before a major gate review, making thorough analysis nearly impossible.
  • Political pressure from senior executives to pass a pet project despite clear evidence it's off the rails.
  • Spending an inordinate amount of time chasing programme teams for basic status updates and financial data.
  • Seeing your well-researched recommendations ignored or diluted.
  • The perception that you're a bureaucratic blocker rather than a strategic partner.
What this role does not give you
  • A quiet, predictable, or low-pressure environment.
  • The ability to always be popular or universally liked.
  • Direct control over project execution or budget spend.
  • A role where all your work makes it to production or is immediately implemented.
  • A 'hands-on' project management role where you build things yourself.

6Who you work with

This role is absolutely critical for safeguarding our strategic investments and ensuring the successful execution of our largest, most complex transformations. You'll directly influence how we allocate capital, manage risk at an enterprise level, and ultimately, whether we achieve our long-term business objectives. Your decisions and recommendations can prevent multi-million-pound losses and accelerate value realisation.

Inside the business
  • C-Suite (CEO, CFO, COO)
  • Executive Committee
  • SVP & VP-level Business Unit Leads
  • Programme & Portfolio Directors
  • Internal Audit (3rd Line of Defence)
  • Enterprise Risk Management
Outside the business
  • Key Strategic Vendors
  • Industry Bodies (e.g., APM, PMI)
  • External Regulators (depending on industry)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven track record of leading assurance for at least 5-8 complex, high-value programmes (typically £20M+).
  • Extensive experience (10+ years) in a dedicated delivery assurance, programme management, or internal consulting role, with a strong focus on risk and quality.
  • Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing assurance methodologies or significant process improvements across an organisation.
  • Strong leadership experience, including direct line management or significant mentorship of senior professionals.
  • Ability to present complex, challenging information to C-suite and Board-level audiences with confidence and clarity.
  • Expertise in at least two enterprise-level PPM or GRC tools (e.g., Planview, ServiceNow GRC) and advanced data visualisation platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Integrated Portfolio Analytics & Visualisation

Executives demand a single, real-time view of portfolio health, not disparate reports from different systems. You'll need to move beyond individual Power BI dashboards to architect integrated data models that pull from PPM, financial, and risk systems to provide a holistic, actionable view.

Enterprise Data Modelling · Advanced Data Governance · Real-time Reporting Architectures

  • This quarter: Partner with our Enterprise Data team to understand our current data architecture and identify integration points.
  • Next 6 months: Lead the design of a new integrated portfolio health dashboard, working with our Power BI/Tableau experts.
  • Month 7-9: Champion the adoption of this new dashboard, training senior leaders on how to interpret and act on the insights.
  • Month 10-12: Explore external benchmarks for integrated portfolio analytics and propose further enhancements.

Quick win: Identify one key metric that's currently reported inconsistently across two different systems and work to harmonise its definition and source.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attend industry conferences and webinars on portfolio management, agile at scale, and risk assurance to stay current with best practices.
  • Actively participate in professional networks or forums for internal consultants or assurance professionals, sharing insights and learning from peers.
  • Seek out opportunities to mentor junior colleagues, as teaching reinforces your own understanding and leadership skills.
  • Dedicate time each quarter to research emerging technologies (like AI/ML) and their application to delivery assurance.
  • Consider pursuing executive education courses in strategic leadership, organisational change, or advanced analytics.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Driven Risk & Anomaly Detection

Traditional assurance relies on human review and static checklists. AI is rapidly changing this by allowing us to analyse vast datasets (project plans, financial actuals, sentiment analysis from team communications) to predict risks and flag anomalies far earlier than humans can. Competitors are already building this capability.

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AI-Driven Risk & Anomaly Detection

Traditional assurance relies on human review and static checklists. AI is rapidly changing this by allowing us to analyse vast datasets (project plans, financial actuals, sentiment analysis from team communications) to predict risks and flag anomalies far earlier than humans can. Competitors are already building this capability.

  • Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Report Analysis
  • Graph Databases for Dependency Mapping
  • Ethical AI & Bias in Predictive Models

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Gated Review Facilitation & Design
  • Advanced RAID Management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
  • Benefits Realisation Management (BRM)
  • Scaled Agile Assurance (e.g., SAFe, LeSS)
  • Three Lines of Defence Model Application
  • Critical Path Analysis & Schedule Assurance

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Lead Delivery Assurance Consultant (L4)

    3-5 years as a Lead

    Skills to master

    • At the Lead level, you'd have already mastered designing and improving assurance frameworks, managing portfolio-level risks, and influencing Directors. To step up to Principal, you'd need to deepen your strategic influence, demonstrate the ability to lead a small team, and prove you can shape methodology for the entire practice, not just your own workstreams.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently delivering 'Go/No-Go' recommendations that are accepted by VPs and Directors.
    • Successfully mentoring 2-3 Senior Consultants to the next level.
    • Designing and implementing a new assurance process that has measurable positive impact across multiple programmes.
    • Proactively identifying systemic risks across the portfolio and proposing enterprise-level solutions.
  2. 2

    External Management Consultant (Senior Manager/Associate Partner)

    Transition typically takes 1-2 years to adapt to internal culture

    Skills to master

    • You'd bring a wealth of experience in complex programme assurance and client management. The key here is adapting to our internal culture, building credibility with our specific stakeholders, and understanding our unique organisational dynamics. You'll need to translate your external consulting skills into internal influence and capability building.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Demonstrable experience leading large-scale transformation assurance engagements for external clients.
    • Strong track record of managing and developing consulting teams.
    • Ability to quickly grasp new organisational contexts and build rapport with internal stakeholders.
    • Deep expertise in a specific assurance domain (e.g., agile transformation assurance, financial programme assurance).
  3. 3

    Head of Programme/Portfolio Management Office (PMO)

    2-4 years in a Head of PMO role

    Skills to master

    • Coming from a Head of PMO role, you'd already have a strong grasp of programme governance, reporting, and risk management. To move into Principal Assurance, you'd need to shift your focus from 'doing' governance to 'assuring' it, developing a more independent, critical, and strategic perspective. You'd need to demonstrate the ability to challenge, rather than just support, programme delivery.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven experience in establishing and running effective PMOs for large portfolios.
    • Strong understanding of programme planning, execution, and control.
    • Demonstrable ability to identify and escalate critical programme risks and issues.
    • Experience in driving process improvements within a PMO context.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey as a Principal Assurance Consultant isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for a career where you can genuinely shape how an organisation delivers its most ambitious goals. We're looking for someone who sees this as an opportunity to make a lasting, strategic impact.

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The ten Future Fluencies

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The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Principal Assurance Consultant is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

The record names a next step, but the catalogue has no page for it yet:

  • Director, Portfolio Assurance (L6)

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

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Applied to your work in Principal Assurance Consultant

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How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

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  • Cost Avoidance from Early Project Termination/RedirectionThe quantifiable financial savings achieved by identifying failing projects early and recommending their termination or significant redirection before substantial investment is wasted.Reviewing a £10M programme, you identify critical flaws and recommend stopping it after £1M spent, avoiding £9M in further losses. Or, you redirect a £20M programme, saving £5M by cutting scope early.Identify and influence £5M+ in annual cost avoidance.
  • Improvement in Enterprise Portfolio Success RateThe percentage increase in programmes delivered on-time, on-budget, and realising their intended benefits across the entire portfolio you influence.If last year 60% of major programmes hit their targets, your influence helps us reach 66-69% this year.Contribute to a 10-15% year-over-year improvement in enterprise-wide on-time, on-budget delivery metrics for major programmes.
  • Strategic Alignment of Project InvestmentThe proportion of significant project investment that is demonstrably aligned with the top 3 corporate strategic objectives, as validated through robust assurance.During a portfolio review, you challenge a £2M project that doesn't clearly support our 'Digital First' or 'Customer Experience' goals, leading to its re-evaluation or re-scoping.Ensure >90% of major programme investment is clearly aligned with the top 3 corporate strategic objectives.
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Principal Assurance Consultant to Director, Portfolio Assurance (L6), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 6 · in progressAI Fluency→ Director, Portfolio Assurance (L6)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey as a Principal Assurance Consultant isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for a career where you can genuinely shape how an organisation delivers its most ambitious goals. We're looking for someone who sees this as an opportunity to make a lasting, strategic impact.

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Principal Assurance Consultant
  • Gated Review Facilitation & Design
  • Advanced RAID Management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
  • Benefits Realisation Management (BRM)
  • Scaled Agile Assurance (e.g., SAFe, LeSS)
  • Three Lines of Defence Model Application
  • Critical Path Analysis & Schedule Assurance
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14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Principal Assurance Consultant is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Director, Portfolio Assurance (L6)

    Roughly 3-5 years as a Principal Assurance Consultant

    This is a significant step into executive leadership, managing the entire assurance function and owning the relationship with C-suite and Board.

    • P&L Management for a Function: Owning the budget and financial performance of the entire assurance department.
    • Strategic Vendor Management: Managing relationships with key assurance technology vendors at a strategic level.
    • M&A Due Diligence & Integration Assurance: Leading assurance efforts for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
    • Regulatory Foresight: Anticipating future regulatory changes and proactively adapting assurance frameworks.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be honest, a big chunk of delivery assurance involves sifting through mountains of reports, cross-referencing data, and drafting detailed findings. What if you could offload the tedious, repetitive stuff to AI, freeing you up for the high-value strategic thinking and influencing that truly matters? You can.

Our Internal Consulting team is at the forefront of AI adoption. We're not just talking about theory; we're actively integrating AI tools into our daily workflows to make us more efficient, more accurate, and frankly, more effective at spotting those 'watermelon projects' before they sink us. Here's a glimpse of how AI will change your day-to-day as a Principal Assurance Consultant:

Automated Report Scanning & Anomaly Detection

Imagine an AI tool ingesting all weekly status reports (PDFs, emails, Jira updates) and automatically cross-referencing them against your RAID logs and financial forecasts. It'll flag inconsistencies – like a 'green' status report for a programme with overdue critical risks or significant budget variances – saving you hours of manual digging and helping you pinpoint where to focus your deep-dive questions.

Predictive Risk Analysis & Early Warning Systems

We're building AI models trained on years of historical project data to identify subtle early warning indicators of programme failure. This means the system can flag projects that, despite appearing 'green', share characteristics with previously failed initiatives (e.g., high team turnover, consistent minor budget creep). You'll shift from reactive analysis to proactive investigation of high-probability risks.

Intelligent Business Case Summarisation & Query

When you're assigned to a new, complex, multi-year transformation, you'll use AI to quickly ingest the 100-page business case, programme charter, and associated documents. It'll produce a concise summary highlighting key objectives, promised benefits, major assumptions, and named stakeholders. You can then 'chat' with the AI to quickly pull out specific details or challenge assumptions, dramatically cutting down your initial review time.

AI-Assisted Gate Review Minute & Action Item Generation

After a two-hour executive Tollgate review, an AI meeting assistant will transcribe the discussion, automatically identify key decisions (e.g., 'Go/No-Go'), and draft a list of action items with assigned owners and deadlines. This means you can circulate accurate minutes within minutes of the meeting's end, ensuring clarity and accountability without the manual grind.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Principal Assurance Consultant?

Common routes in include Lead Delivery Assurance Consultant (L4) (3-5 years as a Lead), External Management Consultant (Senior Manager/Associate Partner) (Transition typically takes 1-2 years to adapt to internal culture) and Head of Programme/Portfolio Management Office (PMO) (2-4 years in a Head of PMO role). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Principal Assurance Consultant progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, Portfolio Assurance (L6) (Roughly 3-5 years as a Principal Assurance Consultant), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Principal Assurance Consultant in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 6 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Principal Assurance Consultant?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Risk & Anomaly Detection. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Principal Assurance Consultant, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Principal Assurance Consultant: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 6

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Internal Consulting

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll develop here – strategic thinking, risk management, complex problem-solving, and influencing senior stakeholders – are highly transferable across almost any industry. You could move into other internal consulting functions, external consulting, or directly into senior leadership roles within other large organisations.

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