Senior Principal in Slough

A specialist consultancy is expanding its leadership team with a Senior Principal/Director to help shape and grow a high‑impact advisory and data‑driven benchmarking offering for Asset & Wealth Management clients. This is a rare opportunity for someone who knows the Asset Management ecosystem inside out, has led complex client engagements, and wants more ownership, visibility, and strategic influence than a large firm can offer.

Why this could be your next move

If you’ve built your career in a major consulting house or a large financial‑services advisory group, you may recognise some of these realities:

• You spend more time navigating internal process than shaping client outcomes.
• You’re selling impressive capabilities, but unable to influence how solutions evolve.
• You’re delivering great work, but not seeing it translate into meaningful ownership, progression, or autonomy.
• The Asset Management practice is important — but not your playground to build.

This role changes that. You’ll join a specialist business where your AM expertise is core to the mission: scaling proprietary insight, shaping go‑to‑market offerings, and influencing product direction. You’ll have direct visibility with senior leadership, faster decision‑making, and the chance to make a measurable impact on practice growth.

What you’ll lead

• End‑to‑end delivery of strategic benchmarking and decision-support projects across the AM value chain (front‑to‑back productivity, market sizing, fee pricing, distribution effectiveness, and more).
• Direct engagement with senior stakeholders across global asset managers, boutiques, and alternatives.
• Development of new propositions, data‑led insights, and go‑to‑market narratives.
• Pitching, solution shaping, and building trusted client relationships that convert into long-term programmes.
• Coaching and developing a talented consulting team, acting as a multiplier of expertise across the practice.
• Driving innovation and contributing to a growing book of business in a high‑growth, entrepreneurial environment.

What you bring

• 6–10+ years’ experience in consulting, strategic advisory, or financial‑services data/insights businesses.
• At least 4–7+ years working directly with Asset Management clients.
• Deep understanding of AM operating models, investment processes, commercial levers, and industry terminology.
• Strong project leadership: managing multiple workstreams, deadlines and complex stakeholder environments.
• A credible, engaging communication style honed through senior‑level client interaction.
• An entrepreneurial mindset: proactive, collaborative, creative, and comfortable shaping what “good” looks like.
• A desire to join a firm where your ideas, ownership and strategic judgement genuinely matter.

Why join a smaller, specialist consulting business?

Because it means:

• More influence. You’ll shape propositions, product, and practice strategy — not just deliver them.
• More visibility. Your work is seen, recognised, and directly tied to firm‑wide growth.
• More agility. Less bureaucracy. Faster decisions. Greater innovation.
• More impact. You’ll work on problems that senior leaders genuinely care about, backed by proprietary datasets and benchmarking tools that open doors.
• More progression. With the practice scaling, this is a genuine platform for future leadership.

Package

Base salary: £150,000–£170,000
Bonus: meaningful performance‑linked structure
Location: London (hybrid)

Interested?

If you're an AM‑focused consultant ready to step out of the shadows of larger strategy houses and take on a role with genuine ownership and influence, this is the opportunity to explore. Send your CV or confidential expression of interest to Fidarsi.