193 Strategic Management jobs in the United Kingdom

THE OPPORTUNITY

Title: Director of Strategic Project Management

Location: Midlands, UK (hybrid)

At Iron Mountain we protect what our customers value most, from the everyday to the extraordinary. We build customer value around the world with a passion for preserving the physical, transforming the digital, and respecting the environmental. We pioneered the industry for global records and information management and have established some of the best customer relationships in the industry with 95% of the Fortune 1000 companies among our 225,000 loyal customers. Here, you’ll bring your expertise and creativity to a workplace that thrives on continuous improvement. Here, you’ll be part of a global workforce that embraces the differences among us. And here, we’ll encourage you to Climb Higher for the benefit of our customers and each other. There is so much more, but enough about us. We can’t wait to hear about YOU.

Job summary:

Our rapidly growing Global Warehousing & Logistics business segment is at the forefront of delivering complex, high-value supply chain solutions to clients globally. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced leader to join us as the Director of Strategic Project Management.

This is a critical role responsible for the successful execution and standardisation of new contract logistics facility launches and complex client implementations. Reporting directly to the SVP of Global Warehousing & Logistics, this role will lead the strategic planning, program management, and operational readiness for Iron Mountain's expanding footprint in contract logistics and on demand storage.

While focused initially on major implementations in the UK, this role will have a global remit, playing a pivotal part in Iron Mountain's new geographic market penetration strategies and launch of major implementations wherever they may be. Secondarily, the ideal candidate will bring a robust background in operational excellence, demonstrating a proven ability to support the definition and launch of comprehensive operational excellence programs within a contract logistics environment.

Your role in our mission:

• Lead Strategic Projects: Lead the end-to-end project lifecycle for new logistics site implementations and major client integrations. Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest standards.
• Develop Methodologies: Create and implement standardised project management methodologies and best practices specifically for our contract logistics launches and transformations.
• Manage Stakeholders: Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, including clients, senior leadership, regional teams, and vendors, ensuring clear and timely communication.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Collaborate with global teams to define and develop a scalable Operational Excellence programme. Help embed Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement principles into our daily operations.
• Scale Best Practices: Lead initiatives to identify, standardise, and scale best practices across our global network.
• Team Leadership: Potentially build and mentor a high-performing team of project managers, providing guidance and coaching to enhance our project implementation capabilities.

Valued skills and experience:

• Experience: Progressive experience in logistics, supply chain, or warehousing, in a strategic project management or implementation leadership role within a contract logistics or 3PL environment.
• Expertise: Extensive experience with large-scale facility start-ups and client go-lives (greenfield, brownfield, and integration projects).
• Global Acumen: Proven success in managing global or multi-national projects with diverse cultural and regulatory considerations.
• Skills: Exceptional project and programme management skills with a strong understanding of methodologies (PMP, Prince2, or Agile certifications are highly desirable). Deep operational knowledge of logistics processes, WMS, and automation.
• Leadership: A strategic thinker with strong analytical, communication, and negotiation skills, capable of influencing and collaborating effectively at all levels.
• Education: A Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent experience.

Travel: Ability and willingness to travel globally depending on project demands.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of Iron Mountain's Warehousing & Logistics Business Segment by driving world class implementations and shaping our Opex Culture. If you are a results-oriented leader with a passion for logistics innovation and a track record of successful project delivery, we encourage you to apply.

Discover what awaits you:

• Discover Limitless Possibilities: Embark on an exciting journey with Iron Mountain, a global organization that embraces transformation and innovation.
• Empowering Inclusion: Join a supportive environment where everyone's voice is heard, opinions are valued, and feedback is encouraged, fostering an atmosphere of inclusion and belonging.
• Global Connectivity: Connect with 26,000+ talented individuals from 59 countries, opening doors to diverse cultures and fostering global learning opportunities.
• Championing Individuality: Be part of a winning team that celebrates diversity and encourages individual differences to drive greatness.
• Competitive Total Rewards: supporting your career at Iron Mountain, family, personal wellness, and wellbeing. (Local benefits may vary based on country-specific policies.)
• Embrace Flexibility: Experience the freedom of remote/hybrid work, enabling a harmonious work-life balance (dependent on role).
• Unleash Your Potential: Access abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth, preparing you for a digitalized future.
• Valuing Every Contribution: Join a workplace that actively encourages and supports all talents, recognizing the unique impact of each individual.
• Pioneering Sustainability: Contribute to our vision of fostering a sustainable and thriving workforce, leaving an enduring legacy for generations to come.

• Develop and execute comprehensive operational strategies to enhance business efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
• Oversee and manage daily operational activities across various departments, ensuring seamless workflow and resource allocation.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of operations managers and specialists, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement innovative solutions to streamline operations and reduce costs.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track operational performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Manage budgets, resources, and vendor relationships to ensure cost-effectiveness and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to set strategic goals and translate them into actionable operational plans.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant industry regulations, safety standards, and company policies.
• Drive change management initiatives to successfully implement new processes, systems, and technologies.
• Prepare and present regular operational reports and strategic recommendations to the senior management team.
• Foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective communication across the organization.

• Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Operations Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in operations management, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated success in developing and implementing strategic operational plans.
• Proven experience in process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
• Strong financial acumen and experience managing large budgets.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and motivate teams.
• Expertise in project management and change management.
• Proficiency in using ERP systems and other operational management software.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities at a senior level.
• Experience in managing cross-functional teams and diverse business units.
• Must have the right to work in the UK.

Consultant, Management Consulting, Healthcare systems

Join our dynamic team of forward-thinkers and innovators as we pave the way for transformative change. This is your opportunity to make a real impact by providing innovative solutions to improve our healthcare systems and join one of the leading healthcare strategy teams. 

We are a fast-growing management consulting and data science company dedicated to innovation in healthcare. We work across the entire healthcare industry including health systems and life sciences companies, as well as working with health investors and their portfolio companies. We inspire clients to make change happen and improve health outcomes. We support our people to be courageous in doing the right thing.  

By joining our team as a Consultant with healthcare expertise you will become an integral part of a passionate group of healthcare consultants committed to enhancing health and care for all. Our team comprises dedicated experts, including esteemed leaders from the NHS and renowned consultancies, who possess a wealth of experience in driving impactful change within the healthcare sector. 

Collaborating with the industry's leading healthcare institutions, you will tackle the greatest challenges our population's health and wellbeing face today. Your expertise will be instrumental in solving complex problems and implementing solutions that have a lasting positive impact on society. 

This role offers an extraordinary opportunity for professional growth and career advancement within a supportive development environment. You will gain invaluable experiences, unlocking your potential to reach new heights in your career journey. 

Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to: 

• Plan elements of problem solving for own workstream and making effective use of leadership time  
• Contribute effectively to problem solving through independently structuring and conducting analysis and research within a workstream 
• Develop high-quality, client ready end products with minimal correction required  
• Communicate effectively with clients across a range of media, including participating in elements of stakeholder engagement  
• Understand contribution of own work to overall project timeline and effectively manage and prioritise tasks, appropriately flagging risks and escalations including capacity  
• Build and nurture constructive relationships with individuals from previous, existing and new clients 
• Contribute to high-quality proposals for existing and new clients, and support responses to competitive tenders 
• Work independently and contribute effectively in a team, supporting analysts in applying the consulting toolkit 

Requirements

Mandatory

• Minimum 2:1 graduate degree or equivalent in a relevant subject or prior experience as an analyst within strategy or management consulting, demonstrating knowledge of the healthcare industry  
• Operational or clinical experience gained from within the UK Health sector (NHS)
• At least 12 months experience gained from within a consulting environment, preferably within health
• Ability to think strategically and support the development of comprehensive plans to address complex healthcare challenges 
• Project management skills to deliver within own workstream to overall project timelines 
• Proficiency in research and data analysis, with the ability to collect, interpret, and leverage complex data sets for informed decision-making  
• Good communication and interpersonal skills to present findings and establish and nurture client relationships 
• Demonstration of business development acumen, such as contributing to high-quality proposals  
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends and best practices 
• Willingness and ability to travel 
• Educated to a degree level (or equivalent experience) 

Desired

• Experience in advanced analytical capabilities such as using SQL or Python 

We follow a hybrid working model that balances in person connections and remote work to drive exceptional client impact. We enjoy working in person together with clients and colleagues and work where clients need us to be.

In supporting flexibility and remote working, team members can work from home one day per week as standard. Additionally, we offer 44 remote working days per year  which can be used to top up your working from home days and enable you to work from home up to two days per week-subject to client needs. Alternatively, you could use your allowance in blocks to manage school holidays or other commitments. Our core in person working hours are from 10am until 4pm allowing you that extra flexibility to manage your schedule in a way that works for you. 

We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive culture where diversity thrives, and all our people can excel. We only recruit, promote and reward our people based on their skills and contribution, without regard to gender, race, disability, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or other characteristics. 

We are Disability Confident Accredited, and we want you to feel comfortable and able to perform at your best in the recruitment process, if you require any reasonable adjustments for any part of the recruitment process, please let us know. 

CF is dedicated to improving healthcare through working with health systems and the life sciences industry. We offer clients consulting and data services and products. 

Our work with health systems includes work with public and private providers of all kinds of care as well as their commissioners and regulators. We work at every level including national, regional, place and local level. We support health systems on critical strategic, performance and organisational issues to deliver the best outcomes for the populations they serve. 

Our work with the life sciences industry includes pharmaceutical and biotech companies as well as medical devices, diagnostics, and health tech companies as well as their investors. We support the life sciences industry in the uptake of innovation including access, pathway transformation, and use of data & digital, and how they partner with health systems to improve patient outcomes. 

Benefits

What benefits would you get?

• Holiday entitlement: 25 days/year for staff and 30 days/ year for leadership, increasing by 1 day for every year of service up to a maximum of 35 days of holiday per year
• We contribute 7% of your salary into your pension, while you contribute 3% (or more if you like)
• Access to a flexible benefits programme giving you the chance to increase pension contributions, gain access to a cash plan or benefit from a ClassPass subscription
• Annual leave purchase: employees with less than 35 days annual leave entitlement are able to purchase additional annual leave days
• Income protection: in the event of long-term incapacity and a qualifying claim, 75% of salary will be paid
• Enhanced sick pay benefit beyond Statutory Sick Pay for up to a total 12 weeks in any 12-month period
• Life insurance covering four times your basic salary in a tax-free lump sum payable to your beneficiaries in the event of your death whilst in service
• Enhanced family leave policies: additional pay for parents who have a baby or adopt
• Access to an interest free loan of up to £10,000
• Access to an interest-free season ticket loan, repayable by 12 monthly instalments
•  Workplace nursery scheme: access to a scheme to help working parents save tax and NI on the cost of the nursery care
•  Flexible working policy: including the ability to work fully remotely for up to 4 weeks a year
•  An employee assistance and wellness Program: including access to telephone counselling, life coaching, interactive tools online and digital content downloadable from Lifeworks
•  Seasonal flu jabs: provided by Boots annually
•  Eye care tests: vouchers and discounts at Vision Express
•  Ride to work scheme, saving up to 42% on bikes and cycling accessories at Evans Cycles
• Membership to the Health Service Journal (HSJ)

This is a unique opportunity to join a leadership-focused consultancy that blends sharp thinking with deep integrity. Our client stands out for their people-first, non-hierarchical approach, where consultants lead impactful change without sales targets or internal politics. With a flat structure, full ownership model, and thriving London and New York hubs, you’ll be surrounded by highly experienced peers and partners who genuinely care about doing the right thing — for clients and each other.

Following sustained, strategic growth, our client is looking to expand their UK team with experienced transformation consultants who want to shape and deliver critical change across a range of sectors.

The Management Consultant will work shoulder-to-shoulder with senior client leaders, often reporting directly to C-suite or one level below. Expect to influence major programmes with a tight-knit team of 1–3 colleagues, tackling enterprise-wide challenges across strategy, delivery, and leadership.

Role Highlights

The Management Consultant will…

– Lead end-to-end transformation work, from shaping through to implementation

– Embed into client leadership teams as a trusted advisor and problem-solver

– Deliver complex change across strategy, digital, operations, or organisational design

– Take ownership without bureaucracy — no internal charge-out targets or sales KPIs

– Join a firm where every voice shapes culture, ways of working, and strategic direction

Requirements:

– 6–12 years’ consulting experience from a top-tier or boutique firm

– Proven success leading client projects or sizeable workstreams

– Excellent EQ, humility, and the ability to build long-lasting relationships

– Passion for solving complex problems and collaborating across functions

– A desire to grow without hierarchy — and help others do the same

Why You’ll Love It

– 30 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays, including 3 days off at Christmas

– Private medical for you and your family

– 5 days per year for charity or personal development projects

– Tailored career paths: become a Partner, long-term Consultant, or go in-house

– Inclusive, sociable culture such as cycling clubs and annual overseas retreats

If interested, do apply or send me an email at

This is a unique opportunity to join a leadership-focused consultancy that blends sharp thinking with deep integrity. Our client stands out for their people-first, non-hierarchical approach, where consultants lead impactful change without sales targets or internal politics. With a flat structure, full ownership model, and thriving London and New York hubs, you’ll be surrounded by highly experienced peers and partners who genuinely care about doing the right thing — for clients and each other.

Following sustained, strategic growth, our client is looking to expand their UK team with experienced transformation consultants who want to shape and deliver critical change across a range of sectors.

The Management Consultant will work shoulder-to-shoulder with senior client leaders, often reporting directly to C-suite or one level below. Expect to influence major programmes with a tight-knit team of 1–3 colleagues, tackling enterprise-wide challenges across strategy, delivery, and leadership.

Role Highlights

The Management Consultant will…

– Lead end-to-end transformation work, from shaping through to implementation

– Embed into client leadership teams as a trusted advisor and problem-solver

– Deliver complex change across strategy, digital, operations, or organisational design

– Take ownership without bureaucracy — no internal charge-out targets or sales KPIs

– Join a firm where every voice shapes culture, ways of working, and strategic direction

Requirements:

– 6–12 years’ consulting experience from a top-tier or boutique firm

– Proven success leading client projects or sizeable workstreams

– Excellent EQ, humility, and the ability to build long-lasting relationships

– Passion for solving complex problems and collaborating across functions

– A desire to grow without hierarchy — and help others do the same

Why You’ll Love It

– 30 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays, including 3 days off at Christmas

– Private medical for you and your family

– 5 days per year for charity or personal development projects

– Tailored career paths: become a Partner, long-term Consultant, or go in-house

– Inclusive, sociable culture such as cycling clubs and annual overseas retreats

If interested, do apply or send me an email at

Collinson Grant is a firm of Management Consultants. For more than 50 years we have been helping organisations to restructure, merge acquisitions, cut costs, increase performance and profit, and manage people. Our clients are leading organisations throughout Europe, North America, and the public sector. Some senior managers have been clients for more than 30 years.

Most of our work is about organisation, costs and people. We know how to design and install better business processes, to restructure, to set up new managerial and financial controls, to get better performance from overheads, to create efficient supply chains, and to manage people. We work in various sectors, including Aerospace, Chemical, Civil Nuclear, Construction, Defence, Energy, Engineering, FMCG, Infrastructure and Manufacturing. Our work requires a significant amount of travel.

Our ambitions now demand another Management Consultant to join our team. You may not have been a Management Consultant before, but will have been a line manager and business leader in a larger organisation. You will now be looking to use this knowledge and experience by working for a long-established and well-respected consultancy with international clients and challenging assignments.

Able to demonstrate a sound commercial instinct, you will have a strong academic record. You will have the personal credibility to engage with executives on the boards of leading organisations, and to form robust and long-term relationships.

If you are based in the United Kingdom and have the skills to achieve, manage, or win management consultancy assignments we would like to hear from you.