Consulting & Professional Services Executive Roles
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role at MBB, Big Four, boutique strategy houses, and other professional services firms classified at the exec tier.
Tier breakdown
24
Founder94
C-Suite619
VP56
Sr Director198
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Consulting, Business & Professional Services industry covers the full advisory and professional-services market: strategy houses (MBB, Bain, BCG, McKinsey), Big Four advisory (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG), boutique strategy and operations firms, technology consultancies, and large professional-services holding companies.
Senior leadership at consulting firms uses different title conventions than corporate roles. Partner and Managing Director are the dominant exec titles; "VP" is rarer. The classifier recognizes Partner-tier and MD-tier as exec seats — Partner equity status is treated as the strongest tier signal, regardless of base comp.
Functions present include strategy practice leaders, M&A advisory heads, transformation practice leads, technology consulting heads, and corporate-finance practice MDs. By volume this is one of the largest industries on the platform — only Technology and Healthcare track higher.
Sample Jobs (10 of 991)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Divisional General Manager ... hirenexus Lead the launch and operations of a new Exterior Commercial Painting division, manage P&L, develop processes, and oversee personnel. VP | Chicago, Illinois Hybrid |
| Interim Director, Public Affairs & Policy ... Hanson Search Senior public affairs leadership in logistics, reporting to the VP Corporate Affairs. Requires strong political judgment, stakeholder network, and experience in logistics or supply chain policy areas. Director | London Unknown |
| Head of FP&A & Business/Data Analytics ... leading provider of architecture, engineering, and construction services The role involves leading financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and business analytics, building a data analytics capability, and supporting private equity ownership preparations. VP | Pennsylvania Onsite |
| Director of Marketing Operations Finatal The Director, Marketing Operations is responsible for driving operational excellence across the marketing organization by ensuring initiatives are effectively planned, executed, and delivered on time. This role involves program management, cross-functional leadership, agency management, process improvement, and budget management. VP | Georgia Unknown |
| Director of Business Development ... growing engineering organization The role involves developing new business, growing client relationships, and expanding engineering services in the utility and power infrastructure market. Director | Decatur, Alabama Remote |
| Director Industry Practice Lead (Third Party Risk) Moody's The role involves serving as a government sector expert, strategic advisor, and solution lead, supporting business growth by aligning Moody’s capabilities to market needs, regulatory priorities, and client transformation agendas. VP | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Hybrid |
| Regulatory Transformation Lead ... Broadgate Search Join an international trading organisation in a high-impact role where you'll shape regulatory strategy, influence senior stakeholders and lead the evolution of trade surveillance and compliance across multiple European entities. VP | Zürich, Switzerland Unknown |
| Head of Legal Pulley Pulley is seeking a Head of Legal to build and own the commercial legal function, advising leadership on corporate legal matters, managing relationships with outside counsel, and drafting contracts. VP | New York Hybrid |
| Customer Success Regional Lead, APAC Talon.One Lead a team of Customer Success Managers in the APAC region, setting performance expectations and aligning with global goals. VP | Singapore Onsite |
| Head of Product Communications Harvey Lead tech and product communications for Harvey, shaping how audiences understand the business. Partner with executive leadership and build media relationships. VP | San Francisco Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
Consulting industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with consulting-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is recognized as a strategy, management, or professional-services firm via SIC/NAICS codes, company description heuristics, and a curated allowlist of MBB, Big Four, and boutique-strategy firms.
- Title-to-tier mapping uses consulting conventions. Partner is treated as CXO-equivalent. Senior MD is CXO or VP-tier depending on practice scope. MD without "Senior" is VP-tier. Senior Director Engagement is Sr Director tier. The mapping is industry-aware so a "Partner" doesn't get misclassified by the corporate-tier ruleset.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the job description for client P&L scope, partnership track vs. salaried, and practice headcount. A Partner with a regional practice P&L carries a different tier signal than a Salaried Director at a boutique. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier also has a negative filter: "Senior Consultant," "Engagement Manager," "Senior Manager" (when not Partner-track), "Principal" at sub-Director level, and "Associate" titles are explicitly blocked from the executive gate.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Consulting & Professional Services is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Consulting + CFO/Finance and your inbox shows Finance-practice leaders, corporate-finance Partners, and Practice Heads of Transformation only — not every Consulting role on the platform, and not every Finance role regardless of industry. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only CXO-tier (Partner) and above seats — filtering out Senior Director engagement-leader roles — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to Director-tier for the partner-track feeder layer. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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