Consulting Partner Romandie (Strategy & Data/AI Transformation)

The role

You will grow the commercial business in Lausanne by managing an existing client portfolio and winning new accounts in industry, retail, and luxury. You will lead client executives through data and AI transformation while growing the local team.

What you will do

• Take over existing client relationships in Romandie and grow them into multi-year partnerships.
• Open new accounts with business leaders in industrial, retail, consumer, and luxury companies.
• Grow the Lausanne office through more clients, revenue, and team size.
• Build and run an account and go-to-market plan for Romandie.
• Own the pipeline and report monthly on opportunities, conversion rates, and sold revenue.
• Write proposals including scoping and pricing.
• Sponsor engagements run by Engagement Managers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Be accountable for client satisfaction, project margin, and team experience.
• Speak and publish in French and English on data and AI topics.
• Grow the Lausanne team through hiring, internal development, and staffing.

Required qualifications

• 12–15 years of experience, mostly in consulting: technology consulting, strategy consulting, transaction services/due diligence, or a large consulting and technology services firm.
• Currently Director, Principal or Associate Partner with a personal sales target.
• A track record of growing client relationships including naming accounts expanded and revenue sold.
• Sector experience in industrial goods, retail, consumer or luxury.
• A network among decision-makers in Romandie.
• French at native or full professional level.
• Fluent English.
• Working fluency in data and AI.
• Based in or willing to relocate to the Lausanne area.

Benefits

• Shape the Swiss practice and its clients, offers, and team.
• Sell with a global platform of 2,500 people.
• Strategy to production under one roof.
• Great Place to Work certified (2026).

About the company

Artefact is a global data and AI consulting firm with more than 2,500 consultants, data scientists and engineers. In Switzerland, the team of around 50 people works from Zurich and Lausanne.