Senior Consultant - Circular Chemistry & Materials

At Roland Berger Amsterdam, you will join a young, dynamic and fast-growing office with a close-knit culture. Roland Berger is a global strategy consulting firm with a wide-ranging service portfolio across industries and business functions, helping clients grow and adapt to today’s challenges. The Amsterdam office employs 120 consultants and supporting colleagues. The team is creative, dedicated, ambitious, entrepreneurial and passionate, while also being social, energetic, open-minded and respectful. Colleagues support each other to bring out the best for one another and for clients, and the office culture is fostered through many social activities together, from sports and drinks to office trips and holiday celebrations.

The Roland Berger Amsterdam DNA

Driven by the values of entrepreneurship, excellence, and empathy, the team is convinced that business and society need a new sustainable paradigm that takes the entire value cycle into account. Cross-competence teams work with clients to address the challenges of today and tomorrow across industries and business functions. If you like to take the initiative and make a difference as part of a team, Roland Berger is the right place for you.

What we offer

Your success is our success. We offer plenty of opportunities for development, international training courses and a mentor to support your growth. Benefits include 30 days of vacation, transportation benefits, a non-contributory pension and a contribution to your health insurance.

What you will be doing

You will work closely with partners and senior colleagues from the Amsterdam office specializing in industrials and chemicals, contributing to high-impact projects at the intersection of circular chemistry and sustainable materials. You will mainly work in international teams, where combining strengths and resources is essential. From reimagining reuse to advancing green fuels, the team supports clients across the chemical and industrial sectors in adapting to a more sustainable future.

Spanning the full shift from linear to circular business models, including chemicals, plastics, minerals and brine, water, battery materials, biobased materials, and food ingredients, the team drives transformation by challenging the status quo, supporting technology creation and fostering innovation.

The team brings deep sector knowledge and a pragmatic approach to help clients navigate complex challenges and seize opportunities. Roland Berger differentiates itself by listening carefully to clients and working intensively with them on tailor-made solutions.

On your first day you can already have a real impact, since you will be working with clients from all over an organization and will often report to senior management. You will discover abundant opportunities for advancing your professional growth as you navigate challenging and rewarding projects.

As a Senior Consultant at Roland Berger you will:

• Take the lead for modules in larger projects, and complete project management of smaller projects, typically leading three to five consultants.
• Coach and develop the consultants in your project teams.
• Work closely with industry experts at Roland Berger.
• Contribute to Roland Berger’s knowledge development by capturing insights and drawing lessons from client work.
• Participate in office-wide projects, such as in-depth studies on current topics, that further develop Roland Berger or its thinking in a specific area or sector.

Qualifications

Who we seek

Roland Berger is looking for people who are genuinely interested in clients and their challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to work hard to deliver the highest quality. The values of empathy, entrepreneurship and excellence are the foundation of the work and culture. We are looking for people who recognize themselves in these values, who can think big, dare to dream, see and make connections, are self-starters and can enrich the team.

Our requirements

• You have completed an academic university education.
• You have between four and seven years of experience in strategy and/or management consulting or in strategic and/or operational roles at a large company or in the public sector. Prior involvement in circular chemistry and materials is required.
• You have technical affinity and commercial insight.
• You can think analytically and structure arguments clearly.
• You work with precision.
• You are open-minded.
• You have experience managing others and delegating work to more junior team members.
• You are familiar with or experienced in financial modeling (Excel), visualizing presentations (PowerPoint) and storytelling.
• You have good oral, written and presentation skills and an excellent command of English.

Healthy work-life balance

The right work-life balance is critical to performing at a high level. We understand that this balance differs per person and life phase. Your mentor will help you organize your work in a way that suits you and your goals.