Senior Consultant

Job ID: 1410925933Location: Diegem, BE, 1831Job Function: Business ConsultingEmployer: EY Global ServicesApply by: 2026-09-29Company: EYEY Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth area within EY, and this with a huge potential for you. It offers variety, challenge, responsibility and the opportunity to realize your leadership potential. Our competency teams are focused on helping our clients to improve their business performance and operational efficiency, whilst managing risk. We help clients by delivering assessment, transformation and assurance solutions in specialty areas, like finance, supply chain, strategic choices, risk management, cyber security and technology.
Shape the future with confidence. The Opportunity: Your Next Adventure Awaits? Manufacturers have long pursued manufacturing excellence programs to continually improve the performance of their facilities and equipment. Many of those initiatives were successful for a time, but they’ve lacked staying power. Today, most manufacturers still struggle to achieve — and sustain — higher levels of performance. And now they also have to deal with escalating digital disruption that increasingly challenges their competitiveness and ability to grow.
Our EY teams understand how to improve productivity for smarter, faster and more advanced manufacturing. With our EY Smart Factory methodology and our unique partnership with P&G at the foundation, we help our clients achieve operational efficiency across the organization to build a better tomorrowEY has been rated one of the leading manufacturing consulting firms in the world, and very few organizations match the scope, scale, and ability to lead companies through a sustainable manufacturing transformation. For our growing Supply Chain and Operations practice in Belgium we are looking for a Senior Consultant – Manufacturing to strengthen our manufacturing team.
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Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Consultant you support and (co-)lead project delivery teams improving our client’s business performance, in line with our Exceptional Client Service approach, while helping grow our practice outside of your client work. Drawing on your knowledge, skills and experience, you will start to build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers, support bids, proposals and thought leadership.
You will work independently as well as in teams. You will coach and support consultants and client team members, perform analyses and report finding and results. You will share your expertise with other colleagues in the manufacturing excellence team of EY Belgium, residing in the broader Supply Chain & Operations team.
In addition, you’ll actively establish and strengthen the relationships with our regional and global Manufacturing leadership teams and take part in our international communities.
Your knowledge and experience, combined with EY’s thought leadership on the future of Manufacturing and Maintenance, will allow you to provide innovative insights for clients, adapting our service offerings, solutions, and methods to fit the operational teams and cultural needs.
You are thorough and result-oriented and work together with the client on implementing solutions. You often work in an international environment on projects with a significant impact on company results.

Your Profile
You have:A master’s degree in Business, Industrial or Civil Engineering, or related field with strong academic records;A minimum of 3 years professional experience with a demonstrated track record of delivering sustained improvements in business performance through operational excellence programs, gained in industry and/or consulting;Passion for the manufacturing/production/maintenance environment and you can rely on a first experience in this field; preferably combined with sector knowledge in FMCG and/or Life Sciences.
Proven experience in managing and improving production linesProven experience in running improvement projects aiming to eliminate line losses (breakdown, maintenance, …)Proven experience in managing and coaching shopfloor teamsExperience with delivering trainings on operational excellence to large groups (root cause analysis, data analysis, …)Fluent language skills
- written and spoken English, French and/or Dutch;Knowledge and deep interest in manufacturing trends like Industry 4.0, (I)IoT, AI, Smart Manufacturing, Sustainability, Cyber SecurityStrong affinity with AI and genuine interest in applying new AI trends in a professional context;Ideally, you’ll also haveA lean six sigma green or black belt and/or demonstrated experience with P&G’s IWSConsulting experience or acted as internal consultant in the industryA preference for sustainable solution development instead of a ‘fix it when it breaks’ mentality.
Great coaching and leadership approach.
Entrepreneurial spirit, excellent communication skills & passion for winning;Intrinsic motivation to help establish and strengthen relationships with our clients;Commitment to support the