Senior Manager Defence and National Security

• Gross monthly salary between €6,120 and €8,850 depending on your work experience, variable performance bonus, a fixed expense allowance, and a fixed home-working allowance per worked day.
• 30 vacation days (on a full-time basis) and the possibility to buy more days or sell your vacation days.
• At KPMG we work hybrid, so a combination of working from home, at the client, and at the office.
• A fully equipped home office.
• A lease car with an NS business card or a mobility scheme. 
• A laptop and iPhone.
• An extensive range of training and education that contributes to your professional and personal development.
• Diversity networks in the areas of pride, gender, ability, cultural diversity, and generations that regularly organize various activities to celebrate difference!
• Attention to vitality! Exercising at the office in Amstelveen or a discount at a gym near you, as well as access to coaching, health, and vitality programs.
• ‘Together’ is one of our core values. You can therefore count on various social activities such as team outings, drinks, and events together with your colleagues.
• We support employees who wish to serve as reservists in Defense. For this, we offer, among other things, extra paid leave days per year.

You are responsible for independently building and maintaining high-level client relationships, developing propositions, and guiding teams in the execution of complex assignments. You actively contribute to the positioning of KPMG as a leading partner within the defence domain and the broader security domain.

Within this role, you make use of KPMG’s transformational approach, whereby we help organizations translate strategic objectives into concrete and actionable programs. You work programmatically, drive results, and create oversight in complex change trajectories. Stakeholder management is crucial here: you connect internal and external parties, ensure support, and safeguard progress. Through your ability to connect strategy and execution, you are a driving force behind sustainable change within both the defence and security domains.

The public sector faces major societal challenges: from geopolitical tensions and digital threats to the energy transition, livelihood security, and changing political priorities. Within KPMG's Strategy & Operations Public Sector team, we work daily on complex issues that have a direct impact on society.

As Senior Manager Defence and National Security, you are part of a multidisciplinary team of approximately 40 passionate advisors with diverse backgrounds. Together, we help public organizations – including in particular Defence, but also Police and other security organizations – in realizing their strategic ambitions. You work in a dynamic and stimulating environment in which collaboration, social commitment, and substantive depth are central.

• Leading strategic programs (primarily within the defence domain, but also within the broader security domain).
• Acting as a trusted advisor to civil servants and executives within Defence, Police, and other security organizations.
• Directing multiple project teams and contributing to the growth of our Public Sector practice, with a particular role for the Defence portfolio.
• Building and maintaining your own network, focused on Defence and, where relevant, the broader security domain; including acquiring new assignments, conducting acquisition meetings, and developing and presenting proposals.
• Developing thought leadership on themes such as national security, hybrid threats, and chain cooperation, with a clear focus on defence-related issues.