Manager – Operations Consulting

At dss+, you don’t just deliver projects - you help save lives, improve performance, and build a more sustainable future.

As an experienced operations consultant, your role is crucial in helping us achieve this purpose, making you an integral part of our operations.

We’re expanding our impact in the Benelux region and are looking for a manager who can help us shape, lead and deliver large-scale transformational programmes – programmes that elevate safety and operational performance while strengthening culture, leadership and human excellence (HumEx).

This growth journey provides a unique opportunity for you to accelerate your career while contributing to meaningful and lasting change.

As a manager, you will collaborate with industry-leading clients to reduce risk, improve business continuity, operational performance and organisational resilience. You’ll help them evolve their capabilities, unlock human potential, and build safer, more effective ways of working.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering solutions across operational risk management, HumEx, and cultural transformation, including (but not limited to) safety culture, PSM, and operational excellence.

• Leading teams of consultants and subject matter experts to diagnose operational and cultural challenges, using analytics, observations and human-centric insights to create and implement transformation roadmaps.

• Guiding clients directly – understanding their pain points, shaping tailored solutions, and enabling sustainable adoption.

• Developing structured work plans and mobilising your teams to deliver high-impact results.

• Coaching team members to build their capabilities and strengthen our consulting excellence.

• Managing project delivery end-to-end and cultivating long-term, trusted client relationships.

You bring strong experience leading projects or programmes, with the ability to manage client relationships and deliver high-quality outcomes.
You combine a curious, improvement-focused mindset with the ability to lead and develop teams.

• A degree/master’s degree in engineering or a business-related field.

• Experience in management consulting with exposure to transformation, culture change, operational risk management and/or operational excellence.

• The ability to manage diverse and remote teams, guiding them to deliver strong business and client outcomes.

• Experience managing complex transformation projects from design to implementation.

• A deep understanding of operational issues in industries such as Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Chemicals, Transport or Food & Beverage.

• Strong subject-matter knowledge in safety, HumEx and/or operational excellence that you can confidently leverage with clients.

• Excellent communication, leadership and an entrepreneurial mindset – much like us.

• Fluent Dutch and English communication skills; additional European languages are an advantage.

We are implementers and change-makers. Our teams work from the boardroom to the shop floor, helping organisations build resilience, improve performance, and sustain results over time.

Our expertise spans industries including metals and mining, energy, chemicals, manufacturing, and private equity—combining deep operational knowledge with transformation and capability-building expertise.

dss+ is committed to building a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive culture where everyone is respected, valued, and able to contribute fully. We believe diversity strengthens our organisation and drives better outcomes for our people, our clients, and the communities we serve.