Consultant Resume Example
A consultant resume that names the engagement team led, the distribution network redesign delivered, and the freight savings it produced.
Ray Delacroix
Management Consultant · Strategy & Operations
Nashville, TN · (615) 555-0121 · r.delacroix@email.com · linkedin.com/in/raydelacroix
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute
Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB)
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Core Strengths
Strategy development
Budget ownership
Stakeholder management
Process redesign
Vendor negotiation
Team leadership
Board reporting
Tools
TableauExcel (financial modeling)SalesforcePowerPoint
Education
MBA, Strategy Concentration
2018
Vanderbilt University, Owen School of Management
B.S. in Business Administration
2016
University of Tennessee
Profile
Management consultant with 9 years advising mid-market clients on operations and cost structure, now leading a 6-person team and a $1.8M engagement budget. Redesigned a client's distribution network to cut freight spend 18% and built the reporting three practice leads still use.
Consulting Experience
2021 – Present
Senior Consultant
Ardent Holdings, Nashville, TN
- Lead a 6-person team across 4 concurrent client engagements worth $1.8M in annual fees.
- Redesigned a client's regional distribution network, cutting freight spend 18% in one year.
- Own budget forecasting and staffing for the practice, presenting variance to 3 partners monthly.
- Built the KPI dashboard now used by 3 practice leads to track engagement margin weekly.
- Hired and onboarded 5 associates, 2 of whom were promoted to consultant within 18 months.
2018 – 2021
Consultant
Calder Group, Nashville, TN
- Ran process-improvement engagements for manufacturing and healthcare clients up to $300M in revenue.
- Designed a new intake workflow that cut client onboarding time from 6 weeks to 10 days.
- Negotiated vendor contracts saving one client $240K a year across 3 supplier categories.
- Presented findings and change-management plans directly to client boards each quarter.
2016 – 2018
Business Analyst
Calder Group, Nashville, TN
- Built financial models and market sizing for 12 consulting engagements across 4 industries.
- Ran stakeholder interviews and process mapping that fed into every client recommendation.
The person, employers and dates are invented; the duties, tools and credentials are the ones this job really asks for.
20terms employers filter on
- Strategy
- Budget ownership
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Forecasting
- Vendor negotiation
- Process design
- Hiring
- Performance management
- Board reporting
- P&L
- Budget
- Operations
- Process Improvement
- KPI
- Change Management
- Cross-Functional
- Roadmap
- Risk
- Governance
What holds up
- 01 / 05Scope in the first line.Team size, budget, region — the level check happens immediately.
- 02 / 05Outcomes over duties.What changed under you, with numbers and periods.
- 03 / 05People built.Hires, promotions, retention — the durable record.
- 04 / 05Two pages acceptable.Expected, even; padding is not.
- 05 / 05Board and stakeholder work named.The altitude of your communication matters.
What does not
- 01 / 05Buzzword leadership."Visionary change agent" reads as inverse seniority.
- 02 / 05Taking whole-company results.Your span, honestly bounded, reads stronger.
- 03 / 05Detailed early-career history.Compress to a line each after fifteen years.
- 04 / 05Confidential figures.Percentages carry the point.
- 05 / 05Hiding a short tenure.The story on paper beats the one imagined.
FAQ
Questions about this consultant resume example
Short answers to what people ask before they send this resume.
Use this exampleIs two pages acceptable?
Yes, and at this level often expected. What is not acceptable is a second page of duties rather than outcomes.
How far back should the history go?
Roughly fifteen years in detail; older roles compress to a line each. The early history establishes trajectory, not capability.
Should I include a summary?
Yes. At this level a reader wants scope — team size, budget, region — in the first three lines, before deciding whether to keep reading.