Managing Consultant Interim Management

0.8 - 1 fte | Utrecht | Hybrid | People, Services & Solutions | € 6,283 - € 9,574 | HBO/WO

You know the market, build sustainable relationships, and translate organizational questions into successful interim solutions

In the world of interim management, commerce, advisory, and relationships converge. You know what is happening with clients, understand their organizational challenges, and recognize where temporary reinforcement can make a difference. Thanks to your network and market knowledge, you know the professionals who can make the difference and you know who fits the assignment, the organization, and the desired result.

As a managing consultant interim management, you are a senior interlocutor for clients and interim professionals. You develop new client relationships, further expand existing accounts, and convert signals from the market into concrete assignments. In doing so, you work closely with the advisors at Berenschot. You understand how a consultancy organization works and see when interim management, advisory, or a combination thereof offers the best solution.

Your involvement does not stop at the placement. During the assignment, you remain in contact with the client and the interim professional. You know what is happening within the organization, discuss how the assignment is progressing, and signal changes, bottlenecks, and new issues in a timely manner. In this way, you contribute to a successful assignment, strengthen the relationship with both parties, and recognize opportunities for follow-up assignments or additional services.

The interim market demands speed, but a sustainable match also requires sharpness and personal attention. You combine both. You act decisively, ask the right questions, and truly know the professionals in your network.

You will be given plenty of room to take initiative, build new client relationships, and further develop our interim services. You are visible in the market, conduct substantive discussions with clients, and translate developments and client questions into concrete commercial opportunities.

• Developing new assignments: you approach existing and potential clients, open new doors, and expand contacts into sustainable client relationships and concrete assignments.

• Understanding the question behind the question: you speak with clients about their organizational, change, and leadership issues. You help them formulate the question and assignment sharply and advise on the interim professional and approach that fits.

• Connecting consultancy and interim management: you work together with advisors within Berenschot, leverage their expertise and relationships, and recognize issues for which interim management, advisory, or a combination thereof is the best solution.

• Matching quickly and carefully: as soon as an assignment becomes concrete, you know which interim professionals are relevant. You combine speed with a sharp assessment of experience, personality, organizational context, and availability.

• Developing and activating your network: you maintain intensive contact with clients, decision-makers, and interim professionals. You know what is happening in the market and invest in relationships before a concrete assignment arises.

• Guiding the full process: from the first client question and drafting the profile to selection, negotiation, and placement. You also remain involved after the start. You follow the progress of the assignment, maintain contact with the client and the interim professional, and signal in a timely manner when expectations, circumstances, or needs change.

• Strengthening the team: you share contacts and market insights, create opportunities together with colleagues, and help junior and medior consultants develop in commerce, advisory, and matching. You work entrepreneurially, but not solo, and actively contribute to the collective result.

'The best interim solution does not start with a CV, but with understanding the organizational question. That is exactly where interim management and consultancy come together at Berenschot.'

• Rick Meeldijk, team lead Interim Management

Berenschot is an independent Dutch organizational consultancy firm in Utrecht, where more than 500 driven colleagues work on sustainable solutions for the challenges of our clients. We contribute to progress in organizations and society with our advice and solutions. Our organization has a flat structure without partners, which gives you influence over the projects you carry out.

You will become part of the Interim Management team: a dedicated and entrepreneurial group of professionals who work closely with clients, interim professionals, and advisors from various disciplines within Berenschot.

We share market information and contacts, join forces toward clients, and help each other turn opportunities into successful assignments. The team is part of the People, Services & Solutions advisory group, where people, organization, and social impact are central.

Working at Berenschot | What is it like to work at our consultancy

You are an entrepreneurial and commercially strong professional who builds relationships based on substance and trust. You move easily between clients, advisors, and interim professionals and are a credible interlocutor at executive and management levels. 

You understand that interim management within a consultancy firm goes beyond filling an assignment. You understand organizational questions, bring expertise together, and recognize when temporary reinforcement, advisory, or a combination thereof has the most effect. 

You work independently and result-oriented, but explicitly seek out collaboration. You share opportunities, contacts, and knowledge, actively involve colleagues, and contribute to collective commercial success.

Furthermore, you bring:

• At least seven years of relevant commercial experience within interim management, consultancy, executive search, or recruitment, where you are demonstrably familiar with the dynamics of the interim market.

• Demonstrable experience in developing new client relationships, expanding accounts, and acquiring assignments.

• A relevant network of clients, senior decision-makers, and/or interim professionals, plus the ability to further expand this network sustainably.

• A good understanding of the dynamics of the interim market, including demand development, rates, scarcity, competition, and external hiring.

• The ability to understand complex client questions and translate them into clear assignment profiles and appropriate solutions.

• Experience with discussions and negotiations at executive and management levels.

• The ability to oversee multiple commercial trajectories and assignments simultaneously and set clear priorities within them.

• HBO or WO working and thinking level and excellent communicative, commercial, and advisory skills.

• The willingness to share knowledge and contacts, coach colleagues, and actively seek connection within the broader organization.

At Berenschot, we offer a unique commercial environment without shareholders or partners. This gives us a lot of space and freedom to take initiative and the opportunity to commit ourselves to important social themes. Our informal culture is characteristic. Berenschot is a flat organization with short communication lines where you are truly listened to. There are plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth, where your initiative is embraced and facilitated. You have the freedom to take initiative here. Our diverse and inclusive personnel policy embraces diversity and offers everyone equal opportunities.

Naturally, we also have excellent employment conditions and great development opportunities:

• a one-year contract, with the absolute intention to offer you a permanent contract after one year

• an attractive salary between € 6,283 and € 9,573, tailored to your knowledge and experience

• a representation allowance of € 3,000 per year

• a regular collective profit-sharing scheme (depending on the results of the company)

• an attractive pension scheme

• 27 vacation days, with the possibility to purchase a maximum of 20 additional vacation days in the case of full-time employment

• flexible holidays. We offer the possibility to shift official holidays to days that are meaningful to you.

• a mobility scheme of your choice: a company car or a mobility budget

• a laptop and phone

• the freedom to determine where and when you work, in consultation with your colleagues

• plenty of room for development through internal and external training

Do you also want to become a proud Berenschotter? Don't wait any longer and apply directly. For questions about the application process, please contact Vicky Schats via WhatsApp (06-25722612) or by email (v.schats@berenschot.nl). We look forward to making an appointment quickly with suitable candidates.

Do you have substantive questions about this vacancy? Colleague Rick Meeldijk, team lead Interim Management, will be happy to answer all your questions via 06-46315916 or r.meeldijk@berenschot.nl.

Have you applied? Then you will receive a response within one working week. Is it positive? Then we would like to invite you for an introduction. Are we both enthusiastic after this conversation? Then a conversation with fellow advisors and your future manager will follow. That is the moment to ask your final questions. Do those conversations go well? Then we will ask you to complete our assessment. Does it turn out that you are a true Berenschotter? Then we will quickly proceed to a concrete offer. After this, you are a true Berenschotter and we would like to welcome you to our team.