Partnership Office Manager

• Act as a strategic right hand to senior leadership, translating partnership vision into a clear, actionable transformation roadmap across short- and medium-term horizons
• Drive end-to-end execution of partnership initiatives, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, commercial objectives, and operational delivery
• Establish and run a high-impact Project Management Office (PMO), including governance structures, progress tracking, risk management, and decision frameworks across multiple work streams
• Translate complex, ambiguous discussions into structured insights, decision-ready materials, and executive-level narratives (presentations, documents, business cases)
• Own stakeholder management across senior leadership and partner organisations, building trusted relationships and ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and outcomes
• Prepare and steer executive forums, including leadership meetings, steering committees, and partner reviews, ensuring clear agendas, actionable outcomes, and follow-ups
• Maintain high standards of confidentiality, discretion, and professionalism when handling sensitive business topics and leadership interactions
• Drive continuous improvement of partnership processes, governance models, and ways of working to enhance scalability and effectiveness
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy, ownership, and accountability, proactively identifying opportunities to create impact beyond defined scope
• Prepare senior leadership for key client meetings by structuring content, identifying priorities, and aligning stakeholders on objectives and messages
• Translate strategic conversations into clear, structured, and persuasive storytelling
• Help the team in identifying, articulating, and positioning strategic opportunities within the partnership
• Support the long-term development of the client account by maintaining continuity, context, and institutional knowledge within the partnership

• 3-5 years of consulting experience with a focus on transformation projects. Project Management office would be helpful
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking, with the ability to connect business priorities, strategic choices, and execution implications
• Strong project management skills and ability to create and drive short- and medium-term transformation agenda
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with comfort to work with senior internal and client stakeholders
• A high level of ownership, discretion, and reliability in handling sensitive topics and senior-level interactions
• Strong degree of self-motivation and ability to work independently
• Strong executive storytelling and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to convert ambiguous discussions into clear, structured, and visually compelling materials
• Fluency in English, Dutch preferable

Dutch preferable