Project Lead - Management Consulting - IIM/ISB/Ivy League

What this role is:

Transition Partners is being built by people who left big-firm consulting (our partners are ex-McKinsey) and went into the arena. We have run teams, owned P&Ls, shipped changes, and lived with the consequences. We believe that strategy only matters when it survives execution.

As a Project Lead, you run the day-to-day of the engagement. You do not support the answer. You own it.

Your mandate:

Turn messy, senior problems into a plan that gets executed, and show measurable movement in the business.

What you will do:

• Own the engagement end-to-end (strategy - execution cadence - results).
• Frame the problem with CXOs, set the path, drive decisions, and stay until outcomes show up.

Lead a small elite team (2 - 4):

• High standards, clean thinking, fast iterations.
• Run an operating rhythm that makes outcomes inevitable.
• Clear weekly cadence, KPI dashboarding, issue-resolution, decision logs, stakeholder management.

Build trust through clarity:

• Sharp narratives for the room. Short artifacts. Clean logic.
• Use AI as a force multiplier (practical, not performative).
• Automate the grind, accelerate insight cycles, prototype workflows. AI that ships.

How we work:

• Autonomy is real. If you need constant partner steering, this will not fit.
• We do not worship heroics. Intensity happens in spikes; we plan recovery.
• We do not do thrash. If direction changes, we re-scope, re-plan, and reset expectations.
• We optimise for outcomes, not optics. Fewer meetings, tighter artifacts, decisive follow-through.

What good looks like:

• The client calls you first.
• Decisions happen faster because you are in the room.
• The plan survives contact with reality.
• Metrics move (revenue, margin, cost, cycle time, conversion, risk).
• Your team gets sharper working with you.

Who this is for:

• 8 - 16 years in top-tier consulting, transformation, or senior operator roles. Preference for MBB candidates.
• You have led work, not just contributed to it.
• You can be direct with senior clients and still keep them with you.
• You are fluent with modern AI tools and use them to ship better work faster.
• MBA from a top tier B School (top 4 IIMs, ISB, Ivy League); Top tier undergraduate university (IIT, BITS, St. Stephens, SRCC, etc.)

Compensation:

• Compensation reflects the seniority and ownership this role demands. We will share specifics in the first conversation.

Why people join TP (and stay):

• Ownership: fewer layers, real decision rights.
• Outcomes: you stay through the hard part.
• Sane intensity: predictable cadence, spikes if required, no permanent fire drills.
• Culture: low politics, low thrash, high standards.