Senior Consultant - Generalist Business

Job ID:41423
 

Senior Consultant – Generalist Business                             

Lloyd’s Register

Location: - Mumbai, India

What we’re looking for 

The Senior Consultant – General Business plays a leading role in delivering digital advisory and operational transformation engagements, helping clients across the maritime and asset-intensive sectors improve performance, enable digital change, and realise sustainable business value.

The role is primarily focused on Digital Advisory and Operational Excellence, including digital strategy, operating model transformation, process optimisation, and performance improvement. Strong grounding in finance and M&A is required to ensure that transformation recommendations are commercially sound, investment-aligned, and executable in transaction or post-transaction contexts.

The Senior Consultant is expected to lead defined workstreams, engage directly with client stakeholders, guide junior team members, and contribute actively to business development and capability building.

 What we offer you 

• The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose is value driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programmes.
•  A Full-time permanent role.

The role

Lead defined workstreams within advisory engagements, taking ownership for analysis, outputs, and delivery quality.

Engage directly with client stakeholders, building trusted relationships through structured thinking, clear communication, and professional delivery.

Demonstrate a strong understanding of client strategy, operating context, and change constraints.

Ensure advisory outputs are practical, implementable, and aligned to client value drivers.

Lead digital advisory engagements, including:

• Digital maturity and readiness assessments
• Digital strategy and roadmap definition
• Business-side system selection and solution evaluation
• Benefits identification, value tracking, and realisation planning

Translate digital opportunities into clear transformation initiatives, supported by robust business and value cases.

Work with internal digital and technical specialists to ensure alignment between business requirements and technology solutions.

Lead operational excellence and transformation initiatives, including:

• End-to-end process diagnostics and performance assessment
• Operating model, organisation, and governance design
• Cost, productivity, and efficiency improvement programmes

Identify root causes of performance gaps and develop prioritised improvement roadmaps.

Support implementation planning and change readiness, ensuring recommendations can be realistically executed.

Apply financial and commercial expertise to:

• Develop and review business cases and investment appraisals
• Assess commercial viability of digital and operational initiatives
• Support integration and operating model alignment in post-transaction contexts

Contribute to M&A-related engagements where required, including operational due diligence, synergy assessment, and integration planning.

Guide and coach junior consultants, providing direction, quality review, and on-the-job development.

Prepare and deliver high-quality client reports, presentations, and executive summaries.

Support proposal development, client discussions, and development of market offerings.

Contribute to internal knowledge assets, methodologies, and continuous improvement of advisory delivery.

Actively pursue professional development and stay current on industry, digital, and transformation trends.

What you bring 

• Engineering or bachelor’s degree from a recognised university and an MBA / master’s in management.
• Typically, 10–12 years of relevant experience in management consulting, digital advisory, business transformation, or operational excellence roles.
• Proven experience delivering digital advisory or transformation engagements.
• Strong experience in operational excellence, operating model transformation, or large-scale performance improvement initiatives.
• Solid financial and commercial acumen, including business case development and investment evaluation.
• Exposure to M&A, integration, or transaction environments is desirable.
• Prior experience in maritime, shipping, offshore, energy, or asset-intensive industries is highly desirable

Skills & Competencies

• Strong, structured problem-solving and analytical capability.
• Ability to independently frame complex transformation challenges.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including senior client engagement.
• Strong report writing, presentation development, and data storytelling capability.
• Ability to lead workstreams, manage priorities, and deliver to time, cost, and quality expectations.
• Commercial mindset with a focus on value realisation.
• High level of professionalism, accountability, and client focus.
• Proficiency in the English language.
• Willingness to travel and work from client or LR offices as required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with digital operating models, enterprise systems, or analytics platforms.
• Certification or practical experience in Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement methodologies.
• Prior exposure to marine operations, ship management, or maritime advisory.
• Experience supporting or leading transformation programmes.

You are someone who: 

• Is keen to take accountability and ownership for delivering customer needs
• Can self-manage and prioritize tasks towards achieving goals.
• Is effective at solving problems, troubleshooting and making timely decisions
• Is flexible and eager to take initiatives.
• Communicates in a structured way and has the ability to present technical ideas in user-friendly language.
• Displays a team spirit, particularly in a multicultural environment.
• Responds positively to learning opportunities and is comfortable stepping out of your own comfort zone.

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About us 

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of 

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place. 

Want to apply. 

Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them! 

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. 

 If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy. 

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

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