Strategy Consultant → Business Operations Manager

This is a easy transition with a typical 6-month runway and 68% skill overlap. Expect a -10% salary change, with strongest hiring demand in USA, UK, Canada. Employers hiring today include Stripe, Airbnb, Uber. Focus your first 60 days on closing the gap in role-specific tooling and vocabulary.

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

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

• ▸Lead with a positioning line: "Strategy Consultant transitioning to Business Operations Manager, focused on Project Management and Analytics SQL."
• ▸Reframe Strategy Consultant accomplishments using Business Operations Manager vocabulary — outcomes, not tasks.
• ▸Surface 68% of overlapping skills at the top; put Strategy Consultant-only work later.
• ▸Add a "Selected projects" section featuring 2 artifacts aligned to Business Operations Manager.
• ▸Quantify impact: dollars, users, uptime, cycle time — whatever a Business Operations Manager manager cares about.