Consultancy Director // Client Lead at fast-growing boutique consultancy - London/Germany (hybrid - travel required) // £70,000–£80,000 + profit share + benefits // 4-5 days per week

Consultancy Director // Client Lead

Greater London or Germany (hybrid, travel required) // salary band £70-80k (depending on experience) + profit share + benefits // 4 or 5 days per week

About us

WITHIN is a boutique consultancy that helps leaders build organisations where people genuinely thrive. We work at the intersection of people strategy, culture, leadership development and organisational change and we're growing fast.

We're three founders (Phil, Lillemor, Felix) based in London, Munich and Cologne. We've built something profitable and purposeful and have doubled our revenue every year since launching in 2023. We're a small, high-trust team and we're ready to bring in someone senior to help us deliver outstanding work and grow the firm.

What sets WITHIN apart is simple: we've sat in the seats our clients sit in. We've led teams and carried the weight of running businesses. It's the foundation of everything we do. So this role isn't for a professional trainer. It's for someone who has led, who has run things and who can speak about what leadership really takes from having done it. If you like ownership, clients and a hand in shaping a business from the inside, this is for you.

What you'll actually be doing

Lead the delivery of our work

• Own client engagements end-to-end: the design, delivery + quality of what we put in front of clients
• Hold the room: run workshops (in person and virtual) that land and achieve impact
• Read the room: listen well (what is and isn't being said) and respond to clients and their requests with judgement
• Hold and improve the standard: our clients come back because the work is genuinely good and because we bring new ideas and solutions every time

Lead client relationships

• Be the senior point of contact our clients trust
• Grow accounts: understand the client's world, bring the brief, develop lasting relationships
• Own the commercial side: scoping, proposals, keeping engagements on track

Win new work

• Help us win: shape and lead scoping conversations, proposals and pitches and turn them into engagements
• Turn relationships into new biz: with the existing book of business and new ones

Bring your own experience to the work

• Draw on your time leading teams and running things: hard-won lessons, not the theory
• Be a credible peer to the senior leaders we work with. Help clients see what's possible and what it really costs, from having been there

Help build WITHIN

• Raise the bar across the firm: our methods, our craft, how we show up
• Develop the people around you and help grow our bench of associates
• Shape where we go next: services, sectors, markets
• Get your hands dirty on the less glamorous work of building a business (like we all do)

Who you are

You've done the job. You've led a team or carried real responsibility. You can talk about what leadership actually demands, how hard it is, where it goes wrong and how it can be done well, from your own experience. Beyond that, you are:

• Growth-minded. You take feedback well and you're always learning. Low ego.
• Commercial. You understand how our clients make money and where we fit in.
• Easy to work with. Warm, straightforward, the kind of person people want on the team.
• Genuinely interested in our world. Leadership, culture, change, how people and organisations actually work: making the world of work better motivates you.
• Up for travelling. Some of our best work happens in the room: that means being there.

This is a senior role, but we care more about what you've actually done and the real time you've spent leading than how it looks on paper.

Our clients and team span the UK, US and the DACH region. If you’re comfortable working in both English and German, that’s a real bonus. If not, don’t let it stop you from applying.

What we offer

• A competitive salary between £70-80k, plus a profit share
• A yearly budget of £2k for training and personal development
• A genuine seat at the table for the decisions that shape the firm
• The autonomy of a senior role in a small, high-trust team. Flexible, hybrid working, based in or around London or in Germany
• Travel across Europe (and potentially the US) to do the work that matters
• The chance to build a business whose purpose is making the world of work better

How to apply

We'd love to hear from you. Send us a short note: who you are, what draws you to WITHIN and what you'd bring to this role. Be intentional about what you hand to AI; we want to meet the human behind the prompt. Send it, along with your CV, to felix [at] within.business and lillemor [at] within.business.

We’d be interviewing candidates in November and early December of this year. Ideal start date would be January or February 2027. We are small and take hiring seriously but will move quickly for the right person.