Management Consultant

About Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

About the role

The Management Consultant will provide temporary, project-based advisory services to evaluate and enhance the company’s commercial strategy, market expansion planning, and cross-functional execution frameworks. The consultant will operate in a supernumerary capacity and will not assume ongoing managerial authority or operational control.

What You’ll Do:

Strategic & Market Advisory

• Conduct a structured assessment of current commercial strategy and market positioning to identify expansion opportunities and revenue growth drivers.
• Analyze total addressable market (TAM) and serviceable addressable market (SAM) opportunities and provide data-driven recommendations for scaling platform adoption.
• Develop strategic frameworks to improve go-to-market (GTM) effectiveness and commercial execution across business units.
• Advise leadership on market expansion strategies, including international growth and platform scalability.

Organizational & Process Optimization

• Evaluate cross-functional collaboration processes across business development, finance, marketing, product, and R&D teams, and recommend improvements to enhance execution efficiency.
• Develop advisory recommendations for KPI structures, forecasting models, and incentive frameworks to improve commercial performance.
• Identify workflow inefficiencies and recommend structural and operational improvements to enhance scalability.

Execution Framework & Leadership Advisory

• Provide advisory guidance to senior leadership on strategic planning initiatives and offsite planning sessions.
• Recommend governance models to support enterprise-level strategic initiatives.
• Advise on change management strategies to facilitate alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Prepare executive-level reports summarizing findings, risks, and strategic recommendations.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience; a combination of:

• 3+ years of experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, or a related strategy and analytics role, with a proven track record of success.
• 3+ years of experience in account management, customer success, or other customer relationship role

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive deep analytics and translate data into actionable insights
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Proficiency in CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) and data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Looker)
• Proactive and results-oriented mindset, with a focus on driving customer value and achieving business objectives