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United Kingdom · Internal Consulting · Senior (5-8 years)

Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandSenior (5-8 years)
  • Direct reportsNo direct reports
  • Reports toEngagement Manager, Internal Consulting
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Senior Internal Strategy Consultant · Lead Business Improvement Specialist · Programme Delivery Consultant

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about giving advice; it's about getting things done. As a Senior Consultant, you'll be the one leading smaller projects or owning big, hairy workstreams within larger programmes. You'll take a problem, break it down, figure out how to fix it, and then help the business actually make those changes. It's hands-on, often messy, but incredibly rewarding when you see your work make a real difference.

2What you'd actually use

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

Power BI / TableauAdvanced

Designing complex, interactive dashboards and visualisations to present analysis findings to stakeholders. Using DAX/LOD expressions to create advanced calculations and connecting to multiple data sources.

Advanced ExcelExpert

Building complex financial and operational models for business cases, scenario planning, and data analysis. Writing and debugging VBA macros for automation and mastering Power Pivot for larger datasets.

Smartsheet / Monday.comAdvanced

Designing and managing complex project plans with dependencies, resource allocation, and automated workflows for your projects and workstreams. Building reports for your Engagement Manager.

Miro / MuralExpert

Designing and facilitating complex, multi-day workshops for senior stakeholders, creating custom templates for strategic frameworks, and visually mapping processes.

Confluence / NotionAdvanced

Designing the knowledge management structure for your projects, creating project playbook templates, best practice guides, and ensuring all project documentation is clear and accessible.

SQL (PostgreSQL/T-SQL)Intermediate

Writing multi-table joins, subqueries, and Common Table Expressions (CTEs) to extract and manipulate data directly from databases for analysis. Performing data profiling and quality checks.

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
Project Methodology & ApproachFollow prescribed methodology; seek approval for any deviation.Choose appropriate methodology from established options; consult manager on novel approaches.Design and adapt project methodology to fit specific project needs; inform Engagement Manager.
Solution Design (Technical)Implement solutions designed by senior team members.Design routine solutions within established frameworks.Design complex, non-routine solutions and new processes; consult with business SMEs and Engagement Manager for strategic alignment.
Budget Allocation (Project-level)No authority; flag any potential budget overruns to supervisor.Recommend minor adjustments up to £2K; require manager approval.Recommend budget adjustments up to £10K for project expenses; require Engagement Manager approval for final sign-off.
Stakeholder Engagement StrategyExecute engagement plan defined by senior team.Develop engagement plan for routine stakeholders; consult manager on challenging ones.Develop and execute comprehensive stakeholder engagement plans for complex projects, including managing resistant stakeholders; inform Engagement Manager of critical risks.
Timeline & Deliverable AdjustmentsEscalate any potential delays immediately.Adjust minor task-level timelines within a workstream; consult manager on project-level impacts.Approve minor workstream-level timeline adjustments; consult Engagement Manager on any changes impacting overall project milestones or external commitments.

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.

Project Delivery Rate
Percentage of assigned projects or major workstreams delivered on time and within the agreed scope and budget.
Target · >90%

Completed the 'Customer Onboarding Optimisation' project two weeks early and £5K under budget, hitting 95% delivery.

Realised Benefits Tracking
Tracking the actual financial or operational benefits (e.g., cost savings, efficiency gains) against the initial business case projections for your projects.
Target · Achieve >80% of projected benefits post-implementation.

Projected £200K annual cost savings from process re-engineering; actual validated savings were £175K (87.5%).

Stakeholder Satisfaction (NPS)
Net Promoter Score (NPS) from primary project sponsors and key business unit leaders on your project leadership and impact.
Target · +50

Received an NPS of +65 from the Head of Operations for the warehouse automation feasibility study.

Mentee Development & Retention
The growth and retention of junior team members you've formally mentored or informally guided.
Target · All mentees meet or exceed performance expectations; 100% retention within 12 months.

Both junior analysts you mentored were promoted to Consultant within 18 months, citing your guidance as key.

Knowledge Contribution
Number of reusable assets (templates, frameworks, best practice guides) you've created and shared with the wider Internal Consulting team.
Target · Minimum 2 significant contributions per year.

Developed and uploaded a 'Standardised Business Case Template' and a 'Change Management Toolkit' that are now widely used.

Influence & Persuasion
Your ability to get business leaders and teams to 'buy in' to your recommendations and actively support implementation, even when it's challenging.
  • Business units proactively seek your advice on new initiatives
  • your recommendations are adopted without significant pushback
  • you're able to resolve conflicts between different stakeholder groups effectively.
Problem Structuring & Clarity
How effectively you can take a vague, messy business problem and break it down into clear, manageable components with a logical path to resolution.
  • Project charters are clear and concise
  • your workstream plans are easy for others to understand
  • junior team members consistently learn from your problem-solving approach
  • senior leaders praise your ability to simplify complex issues.
Adaptability & Resilience
Your capacity to navigate unexpected roadblocks, shifting priorities, and political challenges without losing momentum or getting discouraged.
  • You quickly adjust project plans when key stakeholders leave or priorities change
  • you maintain a positive and pragmatic attitude even when facing resistance
  • you learn from setbacks and apply those lessons to future projects.
Mentorship & Team Development
Your commitment to developing junior talent within the Internal Consulting team, helping them grow their skills and confidence.
  • Mentees consistently give positive feedback on your guidance
  • you actively seek opportunities to coach and delegate
  • you conduct thorough and constructive code/document reviews
  • junior team members feel comfortable asking you for help.

5Would you like it

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

What people enjoy
Solving Complex Puzzles

You'll spend your days dissecting tricky business problems, trying to figure out the root causes of inefficiency or missed opportunities. It's like being a detective, but for business processes.

Taking a vague mandate like 'improve customer retention' and breaking it down into specific hypotheses, data analysis, and actionable recommendations.

Driving Tangible Impact

You're not just writing reports; you're seeing your ideas turn into real changes that save money or improve how we operate. The reward is seeing your work actually make a difference.

Implementing a new process that cuts customer complaint resolution time by 30% and seeing the positive feedback.

Continuous Learning & Growth

Every project throws up new challenges and forces you to learn about different parts of the business, new technologies, or different ways of solving problems. You're constantly expanding your toolkit.

Moving from a project optimising supply chain logistics to one re-designing the company's digital marketing strategy, always picking up new knowledge.

What frustrates people
  • The 'implementation chasm': you design it, but the business unit has to implement it, and sometimes they drop the ball.
  • Lacking the perceived authority of an expensive external firm; your recommendations might be second-guessed more often.
  • Being the 'fixer' for problems no one else wants to own, meaning you often deal with entrenched resistance.
  • Executive whiplash: projects can be cancelled or deprioritised overnight due to shifting C-suite agendas.
  • The constant need to re-justify the value of the internal consulting team, especially during cost-cutting drives.
What this role does not give you
  • A predictable, routine work schedule with minimal surprises.
  • The ability to always see every single one of your recommendations fully implemented exactly as designed.
  • A clear, linear path where every problem has an obvious, easy solution.
  • A role where you always have direct authority over the teams you're trying to influence.

6Who you work with

You're directly responsible for delivering tangible improvements within your assigned projects or workstreams. That means better processes, clearer strategies, and ultimately, a more efficient and effective organisation. Your work helps business units hit their targets and contributes to the company's overall strategic objectives. Get it right, and we save money, grow faster, and keep our competitive edge. Get it wrong, and we waste resources and lose trust.

Inside the business
  • Business Unit VPs and Directors (your project sponsors)
  • Functional Leads (e.g., Head of Operations, Head of Finance, Head of Product)
  • Project Teams (the folks who'll actually do the work)
  • Junior Analysts and Consultants (your mentees)
Outside the business
  • Technology Vendors (if implementing new software)
  • External Subject Matter Experts (occasionally, for niche knowledge)

7What you need before you start

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

  • Proven experience (5-8 years) in an internal consulting, management consulting, or a highly analytical/project-based role within a large organisation.
  • Demonstrable experience leading small projects or significant workstreams end-to-end, with clear evidence of impact.
  • Strong track record of presenting complex information to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions.
  • Expert-level Excel skills, including advanced modelling and potentially VBA.
  • Advanced proficiency in at least one major BI tool (Power BI or Tableau).
  • Experience mentoring or guiding junior team members.
  • A degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).

8What to practise next

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

Cloud Data Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

More and more of our data infrastructure is moving to the cloud. You won't be a data engineer, but understanding how data flows, where it lives, and how to access it in a cloud environment will be crucial for efficient analysis.

Cloud data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) · Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse · Basic API concepts

  • This month: Complete an introductory course on Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) or AWS Cloud Practitioner.
  • Month 2: Find out which cloud platform our company primarily uses and familiarise yourself with its core data services.
  • Month 3: Work with a Data Engineer on your next project to understand their data pipelines and how you can access data more efficiently.

Quick win: Ask your IT department for a basic overview of our cloud data architecture. Just understanding the terminology will help.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Actively seek out opportunities to lead internal training sessions or workshops on your areas of expertise.
  • Join relevant professional networks or communities of practice (e.g., Internal Consulting Group, Management Consultancies Association).
  • Regularly read industry publications and thought leadership from top consulting firms to stay current on trends.
  • Take on stretch assignments that push you outside your comfort zone and expose you to new parts of the business or new problem types.

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: Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, competitors are already using tools like GPT to draft reports in 10 minutes that used to take 2 hours. Consultants who figure this out will outproduce peers 3:1. It's not about replacing you; it's about making you incredibly efficient.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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3 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. The consultancy processChartered Management Institute · covers 4 of 10 standardsLevel 5
  2. Data AnalyticsPearson Education Ltd · covers 4 of 10 standardsLevel 5
  3. Data analysis and designPearson Education Ltd · covers 3 of 10 standardsLevel 5
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, competitors are already using tools like GPT to draft reports in 10 minutes that used to take 2 hours. Consultants who figure this out will outproduce peers 3:1. It's not about replacing you; it's about making you incredibly efficient.

  • Context windows and token limits
  • Temperature settings for different tasks
  • RAG architectures for proprietary data
  • Output validation and hallucination detection
  • Prompt chaining for complex analysis

Data Storytelling & Visualisation for AI Outputs

As AI generates more raw insights, your job shifts to interpreting those, validating them, and then making them understandable and actionable for humans. It's about translating complex algorithms into compelling narratives.

  • Narrative Structure for Data
  • Ethical AI Communication
  • Interactive Visualisation Best Practices
  • Explaining 'Why' (Interpretability)

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Hypothesis-Driven Problem Solving
  • Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
  • Change Management (Prosci ADKAR / Kotter's 8-Step)
  • Operating Model Design
  • Stakeholder Mapping & Analysis
  • Business Case Development

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

    Consultant, Internal Consulting (L2)

    2-3 years

    Skills to master

    • Independent execution of workstreams, initial stakeholder management, basic business case development, effective data analysis.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently delivers high-quality work on time and with minimal supervision.
    • Proactively identifies issues and proposes solutions within their workstream.
    • Receives positive feedback from project managers and initial business contacts.
    • Shows initiative in taking on more complex tasks and guiding new joiners informally.
  2. 2

    External Management Consultant (from a smaller firm)

    5-7 years

    Skills to master

    • Adapting to internal politics, building long-term relationships (not just project-based), understanding company-specific nuances, demonstrating resilience in a different environment.

    You're ready to move on when

    • A strong portfolio of successfully delivered projects across various industries/functions.
    • Excellent client-facing and presentation skills.
    • Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new business contexts and build credibility.
    • A genuine desire to make a lasting impact within one organisation.
  3. 3

    Specialist/Analyst in a Business Function (e.g., Senior Business Analyst, Process Improvement Lead)

    6-8 years

    Skills to master

    • Structured problem-solving, hypothesis-driven analysis, executive communication, cross-functional influence, formal project leadership.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven track record of driving significant improvements within their specific function.
    • Experience leading projects that involved multiple departments.
    • A strong desire to apply their analytical and problem-solving skills to a broader range of business challenges.
    • Ability to abstract from specific functional knowledge to broader business principles.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're looking for ambitious, bright people who want to make a tangible difference and aren't afraid of a challenge. If that sounds like you, let's talk.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

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 Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting 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:

  • Engagement Manager / Principal, Internal Consulting (L4)

12The team that's yours

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

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

Start free and meet yours

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:

The consultancy processLevel 5

Applied to your work in Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting

By completing this unit, learners will understand how to develop a common understanding of problems/opportunities with consultancy clients, agree solutions, plan and support implementation, and develop the client's capacity and competence.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

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.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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Evidenced on your work in Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Project Delivery RatePercentage of assigned projects or major workstreams delivered on time and within the agreed scope and budget.Completed the 'Customer Onboarding Optimisation' project two weeks early and £5K under budget, hitting 95% delivery.>90%
  • Realised Benefits TrackingTracking the actual financial or operational benefits (e.g., cost savings, efficiency gains) against the initial business case projections for your projects.Projected £200K annual cost savings from process re-engineering; actual validated savings were £175K (87.5%).Achieve >80% of projected benefits post-implementation.
  • Stakeholder Satisfaction (NPS)Net Promoter Score (NPS) from primary project sponsors and key business unit leaders on your project leadership and impact.Received an NPS of +65 from the Head of Operations for the warehouse automation feasibility study.+50
  • Mentee Development & RetentionThe growth and retention of junior team members you've formally mentored or informally guided.Both junior analysts you mentored were promoted to Consultant within 18 months, citing your guidance as key.All mentees meet or exceed performance expectations; 100% retention within 12 months.

and 1 more in the full scoreboard below.

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 Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting to Engagement Manager / Principal, Internal Consulting (L4), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Engagement Manager / Principal, Internal Consulting (L4)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're looking for ambitious, bright people who want to make a tangible difference and aren't afraid of a challenge. If that sounds like you, let's talk.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting
  • Hypothesis-Driven Problem Solving
  • Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
  • Change Management (Prosci ADKAR / Kotter's 8-Step)
  • Operating Model Design
  • Stakeholder Mapping & Analysis
  • Business Case Development
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

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

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

  1. Engagement Manager / Principal, Internal Consulting (L4)

    3-5 years

    You'll move from leading individual projects/workstreams to managing multiple complex programmes or a small portfolio of projects. You'll become the primary point of contact for business unit VPs and start managing a small team of consultants.

    • Capacity Planning & Resource Allocation: Managing the workload and deployment of your team.
    • Risk Management (Programme Level): Identifying and mitigating risks across multiple projects.
    • Strategic Roadmapping: Contributing to the overall transformation roadmap for a business unit.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be honest, a lot of consulting work involves repetitive tasks, data synthesis, and drafting. What if you could offload a chunk of that to an AI assistant? Our internal AI productivity hub is designed to do just that, giving you back precious hours to focus on the truly strategic, human-centric parts of your role.

We're not just talking about ChatGPT for emails. We're integrating AI directly into our workflows to automate the mundane, accelerate analysis, and give you a powerful co-pilot for every project. Imagine cutting down on the grunt work and spending more time on deep problem-solving and building relationships.

SteerCo Deck Automation

Use AI to automatically pull the latest KPIs from Power BI, summarise key risks/issues from Smartsheet, and generate a first draft of your monthly Steering Committee presentation. This means less time formatting and more time refining your narrative.

Stakeholder Synthesis

Feed dozens of stakeholder interview transcripts or survey responses into an LLM. Ask it to identify the top 5 recurring themes, points of resistance, and key quotes for each stakeholder group. You'll get to insights faster, cutting down on manual synthesis time.

Process Mining & Mapping

Use AI-powered process mining tools (like Celonis) to analyse system event logs from our core platforms (e.g., SAP, Salesforce). This automatically generates an accurate 'As-Is' process map, highlighting bottlenecks and deviations without weeks of manual observation.

Charter & Comms Drafting

Provide an AI assistant with your project goals, key stakeholders, and timeline. It can then generate a first draft of the official Project Charter, the initial kickoff email to all stakeholders, or even a summary of your latest findings. Get a head start on all your communications.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting?

Common routes in include Consultant, Internal Consulting (L2) (2-3 years), External Management Consultant (from a smaller firm) (5-7 years) and Specialist/Analyst in a Business Function (e.g., Senior Business Analyst, Process Improvement Lead) (6-8 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting progress to?

This role can lead on to Engagement Manager / Principal, Internal Consulting (L4) (3-5 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 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 Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration and Data Storytelling & Visualisation for AI Outputs. 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 Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting, 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 10 national skill standards. 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 Senior Consultant, Internal Consulting: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

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 build as a Senior Internal Consultant are incredibly transferable. You could move into a Head of Strategy role within a business unit, a Programme Director position, or even transition back to external consulting at a more senior level. The ability to diagnose problems, design solutions, and drive change is valuable everywhere.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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