Strategy Manager – Strategy & Operations Public Sector

As a manager within the Public Sector team, you work on complex strategic assignments for ministries, executive organizations, and other public institutions. You help clients with issues regarding their direction and future-proofing, develop future-oriented strategies, and explore scenarios to substantiate important choices for the future.

With your strategic insight and strong analytical foundation, you bring structure to complex societal issues. You translate data, financial insights, and analyses into scenarios, business cases, financial projections, and clear perspectives for action, so that boards, executive teams, and management teams can make substantiated choices regarding investments, priorities, organizational development, and public value.

In addition to your work for clients, you contribute to building the team. You take the lead in tender processes, develop propositions around public sector strategy, and coach consultants and senior consultants. As a manager, you safeguard the quality of analyses, reports, presentations, and client meetings.

• Leading strategic assignments within the public sector.
• Developing strategies, multi-year plans, and strategy trajectories for public organizations.
• Performing impact analyses and social value analyses.
• Drafting, reviewing, and further developing business cases for investment, policy, and implementation issues.
• Elaborating financial analyses, scenario analyses, and financial models to support decision-making.
• Performing or supervising social cost-benefit analyses (SCBAs).
• Translating data, financial insights, and policy research into clear advice, reports, and presentations.
• Managing project teams and supervising consultants and senior consultants.

“The combination of complex analysis, strategic choices, and social relevance makes this work substantively enjoyable and very varied.” - Michiel, Manager KPMG S&O Public Sector

You will join an ambitious and growing team working on some of the most complex organizational issues within the public sector. Examples of assignments that the KPMG public sector team has recently worked on include:

• Recalibration of the five-year strategy for the CBR.
• Strategic future exploration for Stichting (gelijk)waardig Herstel regarding the handling of the childcare benefits scandal.

• A completed Master's degree, preferably in a field with a strong analytical, economic, public administration, financial, or quantitative component.
• At least six years of relevant work experience within consultancy, government, the public sector, or strategic advisory.
• Experience with strategy development, business cases, financial analysis, and scenario development.
• Experience with financial modelling or quantitative substantiation of decision-making is a plus.
• Strong analytical thinking skills and the ability to quickly structure complex issues and translate them into sharp conclusions, concrete options for action, and persuasive decision-making documents.
• Experience with project management, program management, or managing substantive workflows.
• Administrative and political sensitivity and the ability to interact with employees, management teams, executive boards, and directors.
• Excellent presentation and advisory skills.
• You possess excellent communication skills and are proficient in both Dutch and English at a minimum C1 level, and you feel comfortable in conversations at management and board levels.
• Affinity with data-driven decision making, digital tools, and generative AI is a plus.
• A positive attitude, a healthy dose of humor, and the energy to further develop the team together with colleagues.