This is an exciting opportunity to join the Leadership Team of a growing innovation and product development consultancy. We’re looking for an experienced business leader, with drive and ambition to head our Consumer Sector and take it to the next level. You will shape our service offerings to address the evolving needs of our clients, and your teams will deliver exciting and innovative projects with excellent technical outcomes. You will define and execute the commercial strategy and develop new capabilities to capitalise on market opportunities.

You will be a highly experienced commercial leader in the Technology Consulting space, understanding the complex nature of consultative selling, matrix stakeholders, and multi-disciplinary R&D projects.

You will bring deep market knowledge of the Consumer market and have built up strong relationships with key target clients. This is a commercial role so you will be able to demonstrate a track record of delivering commercial targets of £6m+ per annum.

And you will have excellent people management skills to lead and motivate a team of highly skilled technology consultants.

Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) is an end-to-end innovation partner, propelling global brands and ambitious start-ups to success. We build breakthrough products and services – from insight to ideas, prototypes to production – bringing innovation to life. Our teams are multi-disciplinary, uniting scientific rigor, design ingenuity, and engineering excellence for consumer and healthcare clients. People-centred, deeply collaborative, and – above all – expert, we’re uniquely positioned to shape the future for consumers, patients, and industry. Even our ownership model is innovative: We’re 100% owned by our employees, ensuring an open culture and a total commitment to our projects’ success. As part of our benefits package, we offer:

• flexible working
• a discretionary bonus
• excellent learning and development opportunities
• a 12% non-contributory pension
• private healthcare
• electric vehicle lease salary sacrifice scheme
• share incentive plan
• 33 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays