If you’re a Senior Management Consultant looking to step into a role where you can lead complex programmes and shape how organisations align their people and strategy, this is a genuine step up.
At Korn Ferry, our Consulting business sits firmly in the organisational strategy and human capital space. We help clients solve their biggest challenges by connecting multiple levers of performance — not in isolation, but as a system.
Our work spans:
- Organisational Strategy & Design – defining how organisations are structured, operate, and deliver
- Assessment & Succession – ensuring the right leaders are in place to execute strategy
- Leadership & Professional Development – building capability at every level
- Total Reward – designing reward frameworks that drive behaviour and performance
The difference is how we bring this together — integrated, insight-led solutions that put people at the centre of transformation.
The role
As a Principal, you’ll lead large, multi-workstream consulting engagements — owning delivery end-to-end, partnering with senior stakeholders, and ensuring outcomes that are both commercially successful and genuinely impactful.
You will:
- Lead complex, high-profile programmes with full accountability for delivery, quality, and commercial outcomes
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior clients, bringing challenge, clarity, and structure to ambiguous organisational problems
- Bring together Korn Ferry’s full consulting capability, designing joined-up solutions across organisational design, leadership, assessment, and reward
- Drive strong programme governance, managing risk, dependencies, and delivery momentum
- Own commercials — forecasting, revenue, margin, and scope management
- Lead and develop high-performing, cross-functional teams
Why this role stands out
This is not about sitting in one solution area or delivering a narrow specialism.
You’ll operate at the heart of Korn Ferry’s organisational consulting model, helping clients:
- Translate business strategy into people strategy
- Align structure, leadership, and reward to drive performance
- Deliver transformation through people-led change, not just process or technology
It’s about seeing the full organisational system and making it work.
What we’re looking for
We’re interested in individuals who:
- Are currently operating as a Senior Management Consultant (or equivalent)
- Have led complex, multi-workstream consulting or professional services engagements
- Are confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders
- Bring strong commercial ownership and delivery discipline
- Can lead through influence, structure, and clarity
- Enjoy working across broad, strategic organisational challenges rather than a narrow niche
Why Korn Ferry
At Korn Ferry, we believe that when you align people, structure, and strategy, performance follows.
You’ll be joining a firm that:
- Works with leading global and public sector organisations
- Combines deep capability across organisational strategy, talent, leadership, and reward
- Invests heavily in development, learning, and progression
- Offers the opportunity to lead high-impact, large-scale transformation work
Ready to step up?
If you’re ready to move beyond Senior Management Consultant into a role where you can drive true organisational impact at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
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