Management Consultant Resume Example
A senior management consultant, ten years in operations strategy for distributors and manufacturers, now leading engagements as a senior manager.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, licenses and schools are real.
Why it works
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“Operations strategy consultant, 10 years, serving distributors and manufacturers from $200M to $3B. Led 14 engagements as manager or senior manager. 11 implemented, about $38M in annual savings.”
Answers the question reviewers quietly ask of consultants: did clients implement the work? It says how many did and what it was worth.
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“Took $3.1M a year out of a $650M industrial distributor's costs, consolidating 6 warehouses to 4, client-implemented”
Result first, then client scale, then the action, and it says the client implemented it. Top-down, like a slide.
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“Ran a supplier tender across 120 MRO vendors for a $1.2B manufacturer, 9% price reduction on $48M of spend”
Names the analysis (a supplier tender) instead of 'conducted analysis,' and sizes both the client and the spend.
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“Lead teams of 4 to 6 on 8 to 14 week engagements, sold 3 follow-on projects worth $2.7M in fees”
States the role plainly: team size, engagement length, and fees sold, which is how a senior manager is measured.
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“Sized a $2.1B US industrial services market for a PE client, which then closed a $180M acquisition”
Ties the analysis to the decision it supported, so the work did not end in a deck.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
Copy the text
Use it as a skeleton, then replace every line with your own work. A copied bullet with someone else's numbers is the fastest way to fail an interview question.
Marlowe Finch Senior Manager, Operations Strategy Chicago, IL | marlowe.finch@example.com SUMMARY Operations strategy consultant, 10 years, serving distributors and manufacturers from $200M to $3B. Led 14 engagements as manager or senior manager. 11 implemented, about $38M in annual savings. EXPERIENCE Senior Manager, Northgate Advisory Partners | Jan 2022 - Present - Took $3.1M a year out of a $650M industrial distributor's costs, consolidating 6 warehouses to 4, client-implemented - Ran a supplier tender across 120 MRO vendors for a $1.2B manufacturer, 9% price reduction on $48M of spend - Lead teams of 4 to 6 on 8 to 14 week engagements, sold 3 follow-on projects worth $2.7M in fees - Built a driver tree pricing model for a $900M food distributor, gross margin up 1.4 points in the first year Consultant to Manager, Larkspur Consulting Group | Jul 2016 - Dec 2021 - Sized a $2.1B US industrial services market for a PE client, which then closed a $180M acquisition - Benchmarked logistics cost for 3 retail clients, 2 adopted the carrier mix changes for $5M combined savings - Promoted twice in 5 years, consultant to manager, top-quartile ratings in 4 of 5 review cycles EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2016 B.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 2012 SKILLS Market sizing, Cost benchmarking, Driver tree models, Supplier tenders, Network design, Excel and Power BI, Alteryx, Client workshops
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