Senior Manager, Consumer & Industrial Products

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West Monroe is seeking a Senior Manager to join our Consumer & Industrial Products (C&IP) Team within our M&A practice. This role is designed for a seasoned consulting leader with deep experience in manufacturing operations, technology-enabled transformation, and complex program leadership across consumer products, industrials, or related sectors.

The Senior Manager will lead large-scale transformation programs that improve operational performance across manufacturing, supply chain, and enterprise technology environments. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor to executive clients, helping them translate business strategy into practical operating model, process, IT, and OT-enabled changes.

The role will also contribute to the growth of West Monroe’s operations and supply chain transformation capabilities through client delivery, team development, solution development, and market-facing activities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the executive delivery lead for complex, multi-workstream transformation programs across manufacturing, operations, supply chain, and technology
• Lead manufacturing and supply chain transformation projects, including: Strategic transformation roadmap development and execution planning
• Workstream coordination across operations, plant, IT, and OT teams
• Business process redesign and operating model changes
• Risk, issue, and decision management
• Executive communications and progress reporting

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years of consulting, transformation, or operational improvement experience, preferably serving consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, or industrial clients
• Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-workstream transformation projects across manufacturing, supply chain, operations, and technology
• Deep understanding of manufacturing operations and plant-level business processes, including production, maintenance, quality, materials management, warehousing, logistics, and fulfillment
• Strong understanding of the technology landscape supporting manufacturing and supply chain operations, including ERP, MES, WMS, TMS, industrial automation, connected operations, data, and analytics platforms
• Demonstrated success managing executive-level client relationships and influencing senior stakeholders across operations, supply chain, manufacturing, IT, and OT
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across business, operations, plant, technology, and third-party partner organizations
• Experience translating business objectives into executable transformation roadmaps, implementation plans, measurable outcomes, and value realization plans
• Experience overseeing engagement financials, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue management, and profitability
• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
• Track record of contributing to business development, account growth, solution development, and proposal development
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and quality assurance experience
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with C-level clients
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives
• Ability to travel 30–50%
• Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here
• . Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
• Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
• Seattle or Washington, D.C.
• $209,800 — $246,800 USD
• Los Angeles
• $219,800 — $258,500 USD
• New York City or San Francisco
• $229,800 — $270,300 USD
• A location not listed above
• $199,800 — $235,000 USD
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