Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V
Principal, Management Consulting

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Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.
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Principal, Management Consulting
Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.
As a Principal, you will actively participate in the growth and development of the newly formed Management Consulting practice at Publicis Sapient. Your role will focus on shaping ambitious Digital Business Transformations for our clients and delivering strategic advice in the early stages of the shaping and delivery of these transformations. You will have the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams comprising of management consultants, creative and experience strategists, as well as technology engineers.
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- Actively participate in the entrepreneurial construction of the strategy consulting team: support recruiting process, define ways of working, contribute thought leadership and the development of junior consultants
- Effectively manages team to produce quality client recommendations
Principals are team leaders who are familiar in leading large teams to drive value accretive business strategy and transformation.
Qualifications
Skills & Experience
- Strategy and/or Management Consulting experience within a global major consulting firm
- Prior experience of large-scale transformations within corporate strategy at a global scale and reach
- Skilled at building senior relationships and delivering high impact work for your clients
- Excellent written, verbal, numerical, and presentation skills
- Thorough consulting skills and experience consulting to C-level clients
- Deep problem solving intrinsics and analytics skills
- Appreciation for Agile ways of working
- Interest and experience in technology and using technology to strengthen business value
- Openness to travel and work on client site in order to deliver the first-class services we pride ourselves in


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Benefits of Working Here
An array of benefits are offered to Publicis Sapient employees. In addition to a leading compensation package, 25 days paid annual leave, life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, private healthcare for you AND your family (pre-existing conditions included), and a pension is the least we want to provide to you.
The learning opportunities here are endless plus of course the opportunity to be part of a game-changing organisation that encourages outside-the-box thinking and empowerment to know that the world is your oyster when it comes to your career! With free soya lattes and gym fee reimbursement being thrown in, you’ll get to taste the best coffee in town (in our opinion).
As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com.
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