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Management Consultant CV example

What to include in a management consultant cv: relevant evidence, skills, sample achievement structures and template suggestions.

A useful starting point

Lead with a client outcome you can name without breaking confidentiality. Two pages. Skip a logo salad. Skip this if you have not worked in consulting — a corporate strategy secondment is a different example.

These examples illustrate structure, not a real applicant’s history. Replace every sample detail with your own evidence. Follow the employer’s instructions on qualifications, registration, document length and file format.

Evidence to consider

  • Problem, approach, result
  • Anonymised client sector
  • Team role (analyst, manager)
  • Travel or language if the advert cares

Illustrative achievement bullets

  • Cut a retail client’s stock-out rate 18% after a 10-week network review
  • Built a 5-year cost model used in a board paper for a £40m decision
  • Managed a workstream of 4 analysts across two countries
  • Wrote a 30-page diagnostic in two weeks for an emergency bid

Relevant skills to substantiate

Structured problem solving · Excel modelling · Stakeholder interviews · Slide writing · Workstream delivery · Quant

What to leave out

  • Client names under NDA
  • Photos
  • Every framework in the toolkit

Choose a layout

Explore the elegant template or use it in the CV builder. This is a suggested layout; follow the vacancy’s requirements.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I handle NDAs?

Use sector and size, not the name. Inventing a logo is worse than “confidential retail client”.

MBA on page one?

If it is the strongest card. Otherwise education follows experience.

One page for MBB?

Follow the firm’s brief. Many still want one page for junior roles; UK industry clients often accept two.