Senior Consultant / Project Manager with a specialization in PE consulting

<h3>Job Description</h3><p>Do you enjoy strategizing and leading strategic projects? Are you a curious team player? And can you listen to the needs of clients?</p><p>Roland Berger is an international strategy firm that assists clients to grow and adapt to the challenges of today. We are hiring a Senior Consultant/Project Manager to join Roland Berger’s Amsterdam office and expand the team specialized in PE consulting. So, if you can answer yes to the questions above then keep reading!</p><p><strong>The Roland Berger DNA</strong></p><p>Roland Berger is one of the top international strategic consulting firms in the world, with 51 offices in 34 countries. Our young, dynamic and fast-growing office in the Zuidas district of Amsterdam employs 125 consultants and supporting colleagues.</p><p>We are proud of the close-knit culture within our Amsterdam office. We are creative, dedicated, ambitious, entrepreneurial and passionate – and at the same time social, energetic, open-minded and respectful. We help each other to bring out the best in each other and the best for our clients. Besides our client work, we foster our office culture through many social activities together, from sports and drinks to office trips and celebrations of holidays.</p><p><strong>What we offer</strong></p><p>Your success is our success. We offer plenty of opportunities for development, (inter)national training courses and a mentor to support your development. Project Managers are also offered an individual trajectory with a coach, tailored to you and your personal development plans. You can follow an MBA at a leading business school, (temporarily) transfer to another Roland Berger office or intern at another company ("externship"). You are the architect of your career.</p><p>In addition, we offer excellent benefits, including 30 days of vacation, an electric lease car, a non-contributory pension and a contribution to your health insurance. You can also make use of our life coach and take part in (virtual) yoga and meditation classes, for example.</p><p><strong>What you will be doing</strong></p><p> </p><p>Our Private Equity consulting team serves financial and strategic investors as a trusted partner, bringing profound industrial and functional expertise to transactions and value creation projects. As Senior Consultant or Project Manager, you will support the investment decisions of Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies, and identify the most important levers to realize a company's (hidden) value.</p><p>To support businesses in making the right investment decisions, you will analyze markets and companies, interview functional experts, determine the true value of a target company, and create equity stories to enhance the exit value. You will help the team provide a holistic approach for commercial and operational due diligences as well as for value creation programs for portfolio companies.</p><p>As a <strong>Senior Consultant/Project Manager in the Private Equity consulting team </strong>at Roland Berger you will:</p><ul><li>Taking the lead in commercial and/or operational due diligence projects or larger modules</li><li>Leading teams of typically 3-5 consultants</li><li>Serving as the direct client contact point and leading presentations during client meetings</li><li>Working closely with industry experts at Roland Berger</li><li>Contributing to Roland Berger’s wider network of Private Equity consulting </li><li>Contributing to Roland Berger’s knowledge development by capturing insights and drawing lessons from client work</li><li>Participating in office-wide projects (e.g. in-depth studies on current topics) that further develop Roland Berger or its thinking in a specific area or sector</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Who we seek</strong></p><p>At Roland Berger, we look for people who are genuinely interested in our clients and their challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and want to work hard to deliver the highest quality. The values of "empathy", "entrepreneurship" and "excellence" are the foundation of our work and our corporate culture. We seek out people who recognize themselves in these values, who can think big, dare to dream, see connections and make connections, are self-starters and can enrich our team. We can accommodate a wide range of experiences and backgrounds and your starting position will be tailored to your experience.</p><p><strong>Do you recognize yourself in the following qualifications, competencies and skills?</strong></p><ul><li>You have completed an academic university education (i.e. WO).</li><li>You have approximately three years of experience in PE consulting and/or Private Equity</li><li>You can think analytically and structure arguments clearly.</li><li>You work with precision.</li><li>You are open-minded.</li><li>You have experience managing others and delegating work to more junior team members.</li><li>You are familiar with/experienced in (financial) modeling (Excel), visual