Medior/Senior Strategy Consultant – Strategy & Engagement

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,876 and EUR 10,582 (scale 10 - 11) for a 36-hour work week.
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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The COO domain at Rabobank has recently been established as a central, bank-wide function — bringing together capabilities across operations, data, financial economic crime, procurement and facilities. Its mandate is clear: to drive operational integration, simplify the bank, and enable execution at scale. This is a domain in formation, with a new COO, a newly shaped leadership team, and a broad, high-impact agenda across the bank.

We are intentionally building a Strategy team with top-tier consulting capabilities. This means:

• Raising the bar on problem structuring, hypothesis-driven thinking, and story lining
• Bringing clarity and direction in complex, ambiguous environments
• Shifting the organization towards more structured, top-down thinking

You & your role

In the Strategy & Engagement team, you act as a strategic partner to the COO leadership team and key stakeholders across operations and business domains. You are instrumental to turn vision into actionable strategies and support coherent, organization‑wide engagement around our priorities. Building on experience gained in a top‑tier consulting environment, you will take an active role in shaping the Strategy team into a trusted internal strategy partner—embedding best‑in‑class consulting methodologies, raising the quality of insights, and developing others through hands‑on coaching. This is a role for someone who enjoys both solving the problem and elevating others.

Examples from practice

• Aggregating multiple departmental strategies into one coherent COO-wide strategic narrative.
• Supporting executive decision-making with clear insights, structured problem analyses, and presentations.
• Identify and articulate improvement opportunities across the COO landscape and translate these into actionable initiatives and roadmaps.
• Advise on and support strategic programs that strengthen seamless customer journeys, operational effectiveness and operational resilience.
• Craft compelling narratives, insights, and presentations that help senior stakeholders make informed decisions and engage their teams.
• Lead or contribute to COO‑wide strategy cycles, including priority setting, portfolio shaping, and executive reporting.

Facts & figures

• 36 hours per week.
• Working in a COO domain that brings together operations, data, financial economic crime, procurement, and facilities into one central function.
• Over 48,000 Rabobank colleagues worldwide.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Structure complex strategic problems and translate them into clear options, priorities, and decision-ready materials for senior leadership.
• Lead and contribute to COO-wide strategy cycles such as priority setting, portfolio shaping, and executive reporting.
• Strengthen strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities by coaching and uplifting your colleagues towards top-tier strategy standards and contributing to a stronger strategy culture.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people’s differences, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you will bring to our Strategy & Engagement team.

You sit at the strategic center of Rabobank’s COO domain, working closely with the COO leadership team. Since the COO domain has only recently been set-up, you can play a pivotal role in developing the COO domain’s focus from consolidating existing departmental strategies towards steering on a higher level of aggregation.

The team of Strategy & Engagement is part of the Chief of Staff department,  acting as a strategic partner and integrator for the COO domain. It consists of a Strategy and a Portfolio Management capability, both composed of a diverse group of specialists committed to clarity, coherence, and meaningful impact. We bring together strategic direction, narrative building, engagement, and organizational alignment.

Work on yourself & the world around you

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That is why we invest in you and work together to create a better world. At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you simultaneously.

This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment, and a healthy work-life balance. You contribute to banking for our clients and to societal themes such as the food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we work toward a culture where everyone feels welcome. We value differences and use them to collaborate more effectively and make better decisions. By being open to different perspectives, we create an environment where colleagues feel heard and supported.

You & your talent

• 4 to 8 years of experience in top-tier strategy consulting (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or equivalent
• Strong skills in structuring complex problems and developing clear, compelling narratives (non-negotiable)
• Ability to operate in highly dynamic, evolving environments
• Affinity with topics such as process simplification, operating model design, and efficiency
• A mindset of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement
• A proactive, collaborative attitude and the ability to build trust quickly across a diverse stakeholder field.

You & the application process

Responding to the vacancy Medior/Senior Strategy Consultant – Strategy & Engagement by Rabobank can until the 24th of April.

• For substantive questions about this role you can contact Dennis Woudsma, Head of Strategy & Engagement via Dennis.Woudsma@Rabobbank.nl
• Questions about working at Rabobank and the procedure? You can contact Judith van Limpt, Corporate Recruiter via Judith.van.Limpt@Rabobank.nl
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