Cost Consultant → Infrastructure Consultant

This is a easy transition with a typical 10-month runway and 80% skill overlap. Expect a +19% salary change, with strongest hiring demand in UK, UAE, USA. Employers hiring today include McKinsey, Arup, AECOM, KPMG. Focus your first 60 days on closing the gap in role-specific tooling and vocabulary.

1. 1Audit your Cost Consultant experience for transferable skills that map to Infrastructure Consultant.
2. 2Close the top skill gap: role-specific tooling.
3. 3Build 2–3 portfolio artifacts that demonstrate Infrastructure Consultant outcomes.
4. 4Reshape your resume and LinkedIn around Infrastructure Consultant keywords and outcomes, not job titles.
5. 5Run a targeted outreach loop to Infrastructure Consultant hiring managers at McKinsey, Arup, AECOM.

• ▸Why are you moving from Cost Consultant to Infrastructure Consultant?
• ▸Walk me through a Cost Consultant project where you applied skills relevant to Infrastructure Consultant.
• ▸Which parts of a Infrastructure Consultant role are new to you, and how are you closing that gap?
• ▸Where do you see yourself as a Infrastructure Consultant in 3 years?
• ▸Tell me about a stakeholder disagreement and how you resolved it.

• ▸Lead with a positioning line: "Cost Consultant transitioning to Infrastructure Consultant, focused on Project Management and Stakeholder Management."
• ▸Reframe Cost Consultant accomplishments using Infrastructure Consultant vocabulary — outcomes, not tasks.
• ▸Surface 80% of overlapping skills at the top; put Cost Consultant-only work later.
• ▸Add a "Selected projects" section featuring 2 artifacts aligned to Infrastructure Consultant.
• ▸Quantify impact: dollars, users, uptime, cycle time — whatever a Infrastructure Consultant manager cares about.