Consultant - Leadership and Culture in Manchester

Location: Hybrid, ideally based in Manchester or Leeds

Type: Full-Time

Salary: up to £70,000, depending on experience

The role

As a Consultant within our Operations team, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering impactful leadership and culture transformation projects with senior leaders in diverse organisations. This is a critical role for our organisation as we grow.

You will be involved in the full lifecycle of our work from scoping and design through to facilitation, insight generation and helping clients sustain change. Working closely with the Chief Operating Officer and the CEO, you’ll be critical in delivering quality solutions to Culture Impact’s clients.

You will work across our core service areas:

• Assessing Culture
• Culture Change
• Executive Team Development
• Leadership Effectiveness
• Building Capabilities

Shaping projects from early engagement, including scoping conversations, contributing to proposals and discovery with clients. Managing projects end-to-end, keeping work and logistics on track, coordinating across stakeholders, and ensuring delivery excellence.

Designing leadership and culture workshops, programmes and interventions that are tailored, practical, evidence based and psychologically grounded. Building strong client relationships and acting as a trusted partner throughout projects. Facilitating and delivering interventions with leaders and teams, bringing insight, presence and adaptability.

Gathering and interpreting data to generate meaningful insights and recommendations, including creating clear, engaging culture/diagnostic reports and presentations for senior leaders. Supporting clients beyond delivery to embed change and sustain momentum. Contributing to the growth of our consultancy by developing tools, methods and ways of working. Contribution to digital and face-to-face marketing activity, including events, social and other mediums.

What we’re looking for

This role requires a blend of consulting expertise, commercial acumen, and interpersonal excellence.

Essential skills, experience and attributes - you will:

• Have a strong background in a related field, for example, leadership development, learning and development, organisational development, management consulting, or organisational culture – in consultancy, or in-house/within an organisation.
• Be able to communicate, influence, and present credibly with senior stakeholders, adept at building high-impact, trust-based client relationships that lead to long-term partnerships.
• Facilitation skills with groups and senior teams.
• Have excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate complex group dynamics.
• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen, aligning consulting work with client business outcomes.
• An interest in personal psychological development, conscious business, and systemic approaches to organisational development.
• Confident using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience with psychometrics or other individual, team or organisational diagnostic tools.
• AI fluency, with an ability to integrate AI tools into day-to-day work, enhancing productivity, insight generation, and the quality and efficiency of research, analysis, and client deliverables.
• Hold relevant qualifications (e.g. management, psychology, organisational development, applied behavioural sciences, business administration, coaching).
• Experience in business development activities, including sales, marketing and client acquisition.

What you’ll bring

You will bring curiosity, creativity, and innovation to the design and delivery of client solutions and a genuine interest in your own self-development within our consulting areas.

About Culture Impact

We are a small but growing leadership and culture consultancy with a distinctive psychological approach and a unique way of working with culture. Our work is niche, relational, and impactful. We help leaders and organisations transform culture into a strategic asset by optimising the behavioural patterns that drive decisions and performance, empowering businesses to achieve measurable and sustainable success.

We are a close-knit team who value connection, curiosity, and collaboration. We take pride in the strength of our partnerships, and delivering work that makes a difference by leaning into our values:

• Partnership First. We build deep, trusted relationships with our clients, grounded in respect, challenge, and a shared commitment to long-term success.
• Speak the Unspoken. We create space for open and honest dialogue. By surfacing what’s often left unspoken, we unlock clarity, build trust, and move teams forward together.
• Human, Always. We honour the full complexity of people. With empathy and courage, we meet individuals where they are, supporting growth, challenge, and connection.
• Bold Standard. We demand excellence of ourselves and our work. Precise. Thoughtful. Impactful. Everything we deliver is designed to make a real difference.
• Innovate to Lead. We don’t follow trends, we anticipate change. Through bold thinking and fresh perspectives, we help our clients lead with confidence in a fast-moving world.

As our business continues to grow, we are looking for a consultant who wants to join us on this journey. This is an opportunity to do high-impact work, helping leaders and organisations unlock potential, navigate change and create cultures where their people can thrive and deliver exceptional results.

What we offer

This is an opportunity to do high-impact client work that shapes leadership and culture at a high level, developing your career in a niche area of consulting with significant growth potential. You’ll be part of shaping a growing consultancy, working closely with senior leaders on projects that truly make a difference to people and performance.

We commit to giving our own people the opportunity and space to grow personally and professionally, and to contribute to the evolution of our business. We offer practical benefits including:

• Annual bonus based on business targets
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays, closure for Christmas Eve & a bonus day of your choosing between Christmas & New Year)
• Supported, intentional personal development
• 8% Pension Salary Sacrifice Contribution
• Company mobile phone or monthly allowance for personal phone

If you are keen to join an organisation that wants to make a lasting impact, join Culture Impact and help us shape the future of organisational culture.