At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead client projects, manage teams, and ensure high-quality delivery of data and AI solutions.
- Company: Join Artefact, a fast-growing data and AI consultancy with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, transparent progression, and a vibrant work environment.
- Other info: Work with diverse clients and enjoy a culture of learning and social engagement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic consultancy while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: 4-6 years in consulting or analytics, with team leadership experience.
The predicted salary is between 56700 - 69300 £ per year.
Artefact is a new generation of data and AI consultancy, and one of the fastest growing. We have grown to 2000 people, now serving over 3,000 clients across 36 offices in 26 countries. Founded in 2014 and backed by Cinven, we are Europe's largest pureplay consultancy in data and AI.
We don't just offer strategies. We frame problems, design solutions, build the technology, and operate what we deliver. We are technology-agnostic but technology-deep, with premium partnerships across Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks, and AWS.
Progression here is earned, not timed. We run on impact, and strong performers move fast. If you want to build things that matter, at a pace that matches your ambition, this is where you do it.
Our UK office is at an inflection point. We have built the foundations of a category-defining consultancy, and now we are scaling fast. Join now, and you are building the office before Artefact becomes a name every top consultant already knows.
We work across Retail Banking, Insurance, Private Equity, Energy & Utilities, Retail & E-commerce, CPG & FMCG, and Automotive, giving consultants the space to build real depth in one or two areas while staying genuinely exposed to others.
Our engagements run end to end, from strategy and governance through to delivery of high value data & AI solutions, on problems organisations are genuinely wrestling with right now: Data Platform Strategy and Build, Generative AI Strategy, Agentic AI Strategy & Deployment, AI Governance and Assurance, Digital Transformation, and AI Adoption and Change.
As a Consulting Manager at Artefact UK, you will take ownership of client engagements end-to-end, leading project teams and acting as the principal point of accountability for delivery quality, client relationships, and team performance.
- Project ownership and delivery governance: You will lead the full project lifecycle across one or more concurrent engagements while managing timelines, budgets, and quality to a high standard.
- Client relationship management: You will own relationships with senior client stakeholders at Director level or above, acting as a trusted adviser across the arc of an engagement.
- Team leadership and people development: You will manage a team consisting of Consultants & Technical Profiles, taking genuine responsibility for their development.
- Commercial contribution and account growth: You will maintain a sharp commercial awareness across your accounts, identifying opportunities to deepen or extend engagements.
- Quality, knowledge, and practice contribution: You will hold a high bar for everything that leaves your project team, reviewing deliverables and ensuring quality.
The Consulting Manager role sits at a genuine inflection point: from doing excellent work yourself to being accountable for the work of a team. What we’re looking for:
- Around 4-6 years of experience in consulting, analytics, or a client-facing data role, including at least 1-2 years where you have led teams or managed client relationships.
- Minimum academic requirement: Bachelor's degree.
- A track record of project delivery you can speak to with specificity.
- Comfortable managing up and across; you know how to hold a relationship with a Director-level client.
- Commercially curious; you pay attention to how your work connects to the business you are helping.
- Drawn to delivery, not just strategy; you are energised by seeing something get built and work.
- Self-aware about what you don't know; you ask for input when you need it.
We do not require a specific academic background, big-four pedigree, or a particular set of certifications. We hire for judgement, curiosity, and evidence that you have made things better for the clients or teams you have worked with.
Why you should join Artefact:
- Genuinely diverse work and people.
- Real ownership, early; you lead client relationships from your first engagement.
- A genuine culture of learning.
- Transparent progression; a clear skill framework from Junior Consultant to Director.
- A culture that makes the day-to-day good.
- Global without the travel grind; multi-market projects and a 2,500-person global network.
Manager Management Consulting in London employer: Artefact
Artefact is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic hybrid working environment that fosters collaboration between our London and Cornwall offices. With a strong focus on employee growth, we provide extensive learning opportunities, generous annual leave, and unique benefits like a birthday day off and subsidised gym memberships, all while being part of a diverse team dedicated to transforming data into impactful business solutions.
