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Principal ConsultantInfrastructure Strategy Into Action
City of London
from £100,000 + performance related bonus
In this role, you’ll have greater influence, more autonomy, and a clear path to senior leadership.
At Curzon, Principals are not defined as “sales” or “delivery” leads. You’ll lead client work, take commercial responsibility, and stay hands-on with delivery. You’ll also advise senior stakeholders and help shape the practice’s future.
If you’re successful in your current role but operating within highly structured environments, with narrow sector focus or slow progression, this role offers a real alternative.
On top of that, you’ll enjoy a package that supports your lifestyle and well-being: 30 days paid holiday, BUPA private medical insurance for you and your partner (with a very favourable ‘Medical History Disregarded’ policy), 50% salary Income Protection after 28 weeks, and death-in-service cover worth up to four times your salary. There are also company-funded trips (one includes partners and children).
- Lead some of our most complex and high-profile Infrastructure engagements
- Shape propositions and go-to-market focus in priority subsectors
- Play a visible role in growing accounts, developing people, and strengthening Curzon’s position in the market
- This is a genuine Partner-track opportunity, with exposure to the decisions and responsibilities that matter
In your first 6–12 months you can expect:
- Take end-to-end ownership of major Infrastructure engagements, from problem definition through to measurable outcomes
- As a senior leader within the firm, you’ll mentor consultants and shape how Curzon partners with Infrastructure clients
- You’ll bring significant experience delivering strategy or transformation programmes across Infrastructure, Utilities, Transport, Energy, or Major Projects
- Direct involvement in practice growth, including proposition development, thought leadership and priority accounts
- Significant experience delivering strategy or transformation programmes within Infrastructure, Utilities, Transport, Energy or Major Projects environments
- Demonstrable commercial capability: scoping, pricing, margin management and account growth
- Ability to diagnose complex performance issues and translate them into practical, implementable change
- Demonstrable delivery of complex strategy or transformation engagements in Infrastructure or adjacent sectors
- 7 years minimum experience in UK consulting
Curzon is an award-winning management consultancy who delivers tangible and enduring results for our clients. We have supported business leaders across Financial Services, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & Engineering, Healthcare and Public Sector with major challenges. We are proud of the work we have achieved together with our clients.
The Financial Times and Statista named us as one of the UK’s leading management consultants 2024, based on recommendations by peers and clients.

Principal ConsultantManufacturing, Industrials & Energy
City of London
from £100,000 + significant performance related bonus
This is a role with greater influence, more autonomy and a clear line of sight to senior leadership.
At Curzon, Principals are not boxed into “sales” or “delivery”. You will lead client work. You will carry commercial responsibility. You will stay hands-on with delivery. You will advise senior stakeholders. You will help shape our Manufacturing & Industrials practice.
Maybe you are doing well right now. But your environment is too structured. Your remit is too narrow. Your progress is too slow. If so, this is a real alternative. Here, you can build something. You can own the upside.
- You will lead high-value delivery. You will win new work. You will build the practice. This is a Partner-track role. You get real exposure to firm leadership, its decisions and its responsibilities.
- Own our manufacturing and industrial engagements end-to-end. Start with the problem. Finish with a real, measurable result.
- Shape our focus in priority subsectors. Generate leads, with the Partner and through your own network. Lead our approach and proposals.
- Develop consultants. Strengthen key accounts. Help make Curzon the partner of choice for UK manufacturing clients.
- You could lead a sector or a service line. You could help lead the whole firm as a Partner.
Sector and consulting experience
- A track record at a relatively senior level within a recognised UK consulting firm, delivering strategic management consulting.
- Around 10 years’ consulting experience in manufacturing or industrial sectors, ideally with prior industry experience behind it.
- A genuine understanding of a manufacturing or assembly environment – the design, make and sell of tangible products in a B2B context.
- UK or European grounding in industrial sectors. We are not prescriptive: experience in areas such as Automotive, Aerospace & Defence, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Medtech, Energy or Industrial Products all offers relevant background. We work across these areas over time rather than all at once, so breadth of industrial understanding matters more than a particular sector label.
Depth across the manufacturing value chain
Real depth somewhere across the value chain, ideally with strength in more than one of:
- Operations: This covers production, assembly, and maintenance. It covers operational performance and Lean. It also covers AI, automation, and Industry 4.0. This agenda is reshaping the factory.
- Innovation, Engineering & Design: This covers engineering, R&D, and product design. It also covers the design and delivery of capital programmes.
- Commercial: This covers B2B commercial management, across sales and service. It also covers the levers that protect and grow margin.
- Supply chain: supply chain management, procurement and distribution and logistics
- ESG: Sustainability and energy transition and resilience.
Commercial and relationship capability
- You have clear commercial skill. This includes business development and lead generation. It includes proposal development. It includes project commercial management – pricing and margin delivery.
- You can point to senior clients who see you as a trusted advisor.
- You have a live network of UK industry contacts. This includes potential buyers of consulting services. It also includes referrers in the sectors you work in.
Curzon is an award-winning management consultancy who delivers tangible and enduring results for our clients. We have supported business leaders across Financial Services, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & Engineering, Healthcare and Public Sector with major challenges. We are proud of the work we have achieved together with our clients.
The Financial Times and Statista named us as one of the UK’s leading management consultants 2026, based on recommendations by peers and clients.
How we select our team
NUMERACY
We have found that having a good level of numeracy is important for our consultancy roles. You will be emailed a link for a timed test. We look for a 50% pass mark
MEET A CONSULTANT
You will meet one of our Consultants at this stage. This is an opportunity to understand more about your aspirations, how you like to work and what you can add to our team. Similarly, you can find out what its like to be part of our consultancy.
CASE STUDY
Carry out a case study in real time; and showcase your current and potential skills for consultancy.
MEET A PARTNER
This is the final interview stage and you will meet one of our Partners.
OFFER
We aim to come back to you with an offer within 48 hours of your interview with a Partner.
TWO-WAY FEEDBACK
The experience of our candidates is fundamental. We provide feedback to you after each stage and we ask that you kindly complete a very brief 2 minute survey to let us know how your experience was.
Our employee benefits

Private healthcare

Cycle to work scheme

Partner dinners

Company away days

Team socials

