Strategy Consultant (Infrastructure Resource Optimisation)

About the role

A market-leading enterprise managing complex, high-scale physical infrastructure is seeking an experienced Management / Strategy Consultant to lead a mission-critical strategic design engagement. You will define and operationalise a long-term resource optimisation and security strategy for asset-intensive operations where supply continuity, risk mitigation and efficiency matter. This is a focused, high-impact contract of 3 to 6 months, full-time or part-time, with a flexible / hybrid arrangement based in Melbourne CBD, advertised by Robert Half.

Key responsibilities

• Assess current asset performance, usage profiles and critical resource consumption across multi-site operations.
• Build scenario models covering operational vulnerabilities, regulatory constraints, input volatility and sustainability impacts.
• Design a master resource management blueprint covering sourcing resilience, infrastructure redundancy, process modernisation and capital investment sequencing.
• Advise executives and operational stakeholders, turning technical inputs into strategic trade-offs and actionable roadmaps.
• Set up governance frameworks, KPIs and milestones ready for executive sign-off and handover.

Required profile

• Prior engagement at a Tier 1, 2 or 3 strategy or management consultancy (MBB, Oliver Wyman, L.E.K., Kearney, Roland Berger, Big 4 advisory or similar) strongly preferred.
• Track record of turning ambiguous operational or resource-constraint problems into clear commercial frameworks.
• Ability to work with C-suite stakeholders and deliver structured, board-ready outputs.
• Experience in asset-heavy, commodities, supply-chain or industrial environments is an advantage but not required.

Required skills

• Cost-benefit analysis and capital allocation logic.
• Risk-weighted decision-making and scenario modelling.
• Financial and scenario modelling.

The pay is stated as 550 - 700 AUD per day. Apply through Robert Half with an up-to-date CV in Microsoft Word format.