Senior Consultant Digital Transformation

About the role

All colleagues at Highberg contribute to digital transformations for our clients through their specific expertise. As a Senior digital transformation consultant, you adopt an integrated perspective and approach. You are a strategist, information analyst, and facilitator all at once.

In this role, you provide advice on strategic initiatives: you assist with strategy development, organize its implementation, or both. Stakeholder and change management are crucial in this process. Your task is to engage and facilitate employees at all levels of the client organization as they undergo a digital transformation. You will navigate between strategic, tactical, and operational levels. You help organizations strengthen their operations by guiding them through their digital transformation and assisting them in developing the skills needed to manage it. This includes:

• at the strategic level: defining the strategy to achieve a digital transformation
• at the tactical level: shaping the strategy by making decisions regarding the deployment and use of (new) digital technology, in collaboration with the client and
• at the operational level: implementing (new) digital technology and developing the new skills required

As a Senior digital transformation consultant, you provide advice at a broad level, analyze specific issues and their implications for the client, monitor technological trends, and guide change processes.

Do you get energized by making a societal impact with sustainable results? Join Highberg and help our clients realize digital transformations.

Why Highberg

At Highberg, we turn vision into movement and ambition into reality. We know that real transformation demands more than ideas: it demands people who make them happen. We believe in doing, not just designing. In partnerships built on trust and shared purpose. Our people work as one, combining humanity, strategy, and deep expertise. Because when people and purpose move together, we create change that endures.

We design – then we deliver

We are both the architects and the builders of transformation, making sure plans become reality

Hands-on collaboration

We work side by side with you. Committed and invested, taking ownership from start to finish

Cross European, locally rooted

We combine international scale with strong local presence in The Netherlands and DACH

Culture as a catalyst

Our culture and way of collaborating are unique, creating immediate impact and driving sustainable results

Your main tasks at #Highberg

Examples of projects you will carry out as Senior consultant digital transformation:

• You develop an inspiring yet achievable vision and strategy for digitalization within a housing association, map out the necessary portfolio for a client, ensure ownership within the organization, and act as a trailblazer for the initial execution of projects.
• You map out the customer journeys of an operational organization, identify bottlenecks, and provide recommendations on how digital technology can help. You then design the underlying processes and their interaction with IT in a uniform manner, make recommendations for improvements, and implement them step by step, serving as an advisor and coach.
• You develop a strategy and approach for (digital) customer interaction for a municipality with a multichannel approach and guide pilots to achieve initial improvements.
• You facilitate a series of workshops on digital innovation for a retailer, jointly define business cases for innovation using modern technologies such as AI and Digital Twins, and assist the retailer in developing a working method that allows them to innovate alongside their daily operations.
• You assist a ministry in developing a framework for data governance and initiate the transformation towards working in accordance with this framework by setting up a community of and for employees, communicating the framework in an inspiring and accessible way, and jointly implementing the approach with initial use cases.

Who you are

• You have a broad interest in digital technology and are intrinsically motivated to delve into specific topics in this field, keep up with developments, and share this knowledge with colleagues

• You enjoy contributing to sales and marketing activities, such as developing propositions, writing proposals, and organizing client events

• You possess strong conceptual thinking skills and have a results-oriented mindset

• You are flexible and don’t mind occasionally traveling to clients or having team meetings in the evening (don’t worry, there’s always good food and drinks provided!)

What we are asking

• A smart, driven professional with 7+ years of relevant work experience in consulting and/or change management in the field of digitalization
• A completed HBO (Bachelor’s) or WO (Master’s) degree
• Excellent command of both Dutch and English, in spoken and written communication

What we are offering

• A competitive salary and excellent benefits including performance pay, provisions for mobility, pension and leave
• Sincere attention to personal development including coaching by colleagues, access to and wide range of education and training and a personal development plan with matching investments
• A place within a challenging and growing organization where taking personal responsibility is valued, you have the autonomy and freedom to perform your work flexibly with short lines of communication with colleagues
• A pleasant working environment with a pleasant and easily accessible office, focus on performance as a team and not on the individual and numerous social activities such as get-togethers, sports activities and team meetings

About the culture

We’re a European transformation consultancy that believes real progress starts with people — their ideas, their energy, their courage to change. Founded in the Netherlands, we’re growing across Europe, bringing together diverse teams united by one ambition: to create lasting impact. Together with our clients, we turn ambition into action and change into enduring results. Curiosity drives us forward, collaboration keeps us connected, and our shared commitment ensures that every transformation becomes something that truly lasts.