Sr. Strategic Project Optimization Consultant - Contract - Germany
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The Role
Synergetics’ client is targeting ~25% growth in the next five years. Two consultants will play a critical strategic role in ensuring the company’s operational capacity aligns with its commitments. The project is 5 weeks long in Germany, on-site. The consultant must be fluent in English and German. This is not just a process improvement role—it’s about designing and structuring a comprehensive transformation program in a manufacturing environment. Manufacturing experience and organizational/process optimization are required. Proven experience aligning projects and stakeholders required.
Consulting role is focused on overseeing and structuring a holistic growth program for our client's fastest growing business unit.
Synergetics Installations Worldwide is owner-led and is one of the most respected firms in the management consulting industry. We collaborate with a diverse client portfolio formed of industry-leading companies across small- to mid-size enterprises, Private Equity, and many of the Fortune 500 you hear of each day.
Since 1975, Synergetics has completed over 1,800 engagements resulting in $9 Billion in total EBITDA improvements. We serve a broad spectrum of business verticals including healthcare, consumer, industrials, and business services. Our core abilities are business value creation, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain management, and management operations. We’ve consistently delivered results that have improved the clients’ employee experience, set forth scalable foundations for growth, enhanced revenue management, and optimized cost management and working capital. It’s one of the reasons we’re known as the “Implementation consulting” firm of choice.
Scope of Work & Responsibilities
Synergetics collaborates with clients across the globe. We reimburse for all travel expense and give a per diem for meals and incidentals. Convenient access within one hour from an international airport is needed.
Consulting role is focused on overseeing and structuring a holistic growth program for our client's fastest growing business unit.
Synergetics Installations Worldwide is owner-led and is one of the most respected firms in the management consulting industry. We collaborate with a diverse client portfolio formed of industry-leading companies across small- to mid-size enterprises, Private Equity, and many of the Fortune 500 you hear of each day.
Since 1975, Synergetics has completed over 1,800 engagements resulting in $9 Billion in total EBITDA improvements. We serve a broad spectrum of business verticals including healthcare, consumer, industrials, and business services. Our core abilities are business value creation, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain management, and management operations. We’ve consistently delivered results that have improved the clients’ employee experience, set forth scalable foundations for growth, enhanced revenue management, and optimized cost management and working capital. It’s one of the reasons we’re known as the “Implementation consulting” firm of choice.
Scope of Work & Responsibilities
- Program Leadership: Lead the identification, alignment, and documentation of key initiatives needed for growth.
- Initiative Mapping: Gather existing improvement projects, ongoing initiatives, and emerging ideas.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Conduct interviews and analysis with relevant teams (Sales, Planning, Production, etc.).
- High-Level Analysis & Documentation: Prepare project charters for key initiatives, ensuring clarity on scope, objectives, and execution strategy.
- Program Roadmap Development: Organize all identified initiatives (projects) into a comprehensive “ready to execute” program roadmap.
- Project Lead: The consultant will own the execution of this effort, ensuring alignment across all business functions.
- Support Resource: They will be assisted by one junior team member to help with research, documentation, and coordination.
- Develop accountability frameworks to support organization changes to meet internal and external service level agreements
- Engage with clients to understand the current state of their business and establish positive relationships that build credibility
- Gather and analyze relevant data, conduct client interviews, and visit facilities to observe operations first-hand
- Identify and catalog problems, challenges, risks, and opportunities
- Develop performance metrics and construct reports that effectively represent current state and desired future state
- Develop and evaluate alternative strategies to achieve specific savings objectives
- Create and utilize workplans to effectively prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks with a high sense of urgency across one or more workstreams
- Create reports and presentations for use in communicating findings to client management and implementation teams; present “the story”
- Collaborate with clients to define requirements for tools, systems, and processes; recommend design improvements; then, provide implementation oversight including creating documentation, delivering training, and coaching
- Work in a hands-on mode until potential alternatives are exhausted and future state procedural workstreams are in place, evaluated, and fully functioning
- Collaborate with project team members / clients to design and implement effective solutions to complex business problems; continuously evaluating to uncover new opportunities with the client
- Interact with peers to foster your support network, and empower career development
- 10 to 15 years of Management Consulting and experience leading consulting teams and with responsibility for management of C-Suite client stakeholders
- Senior-Level Expertise: Must have experience leading complex supply chain and operational improvement projects.
- Executive Credibility: Must be comfortable engaging with senior leadership and securing buy-in.
- Onsite Presence: Required to be in Germany across multiple plant locations near Düsseldorf for the 5-week engagement.
- Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify data gaps and risks, develop sound conclusions, and create implementable and sustainable recommendations for improvement
- Project Management
- Exemplary skills across Microsoft Office including Excel data analysis, statistical review, and modeling, and Power Bi
- Industry & Process Understanding: A background in manufacturing supply chains and process optimization would be highly valuable.
- Language: proficiency in German and English
- Effective communication skills in both languages for interviews, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.
- Can navigate corporate and technical discussions in German, especially in manufacturing and supply chain contexts.
- Are comfortable presenting findings and leading discussions with senior leadership in both languages.
- Proven ability to create communications that “tell the story”, and effectively deliver presentations of content in a customer-facing forum
- Bachelor’s degree
- MBA or Master’s degree preferred
Synergetics collaborates with clients across the globe. We reimburse for all travel expense and give a per diem for meals and incidentals. Convenient access within one hour from an international airport is needed.
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Synergetics has grown to become one of the most respected global management consulting firms, partnering with companies and their stakeholders to help improve operating efficiencies, drive growth and enhance bottom-line performance. With offices in the U.S. and Europe and team members across the globe, we proudly serve companies across targeted industry sectors and all geographies. From the onset of our journey nearly five decades ago, we have employed a unique approach to management consulting, believing the only way to drive sustainable change is to empower organizations and the people within them. We work with our clients to understand their business challenges and short- and long-term goals, and then tailor solutions to drive sustainable improvements in efficiencies and profitability. We operate across four main business segments: - Consumer - Healthcare - Industrials - Business Services Why choose Synergetics? - Proven track record and past performance - Subject matter experts with deep industry expertise - Focused on sustainable business value creation - Hands-on operators at the front-line every step of the way - Reputation, integrity and trusted advisors
