Advisor on Expertise-Led Service Portfolio Design
Germany·Business Services & Diversified·Professional services· Berlin·Posted 15 September 2026
Applications close 10 November 2026
Professional services organisation in Germany
The problem this seat exists to solve
Applicants should bring experience designing or managing an expertise-led service portfolio and following its commercial results. They must demonstrate how client evidence changed an initial proposition and how delivery economics affected the final choice. Strong candidates understand the cultural implications of retiring a service associated with an influential professional.
From a collection of offers to an intentional portfolio
The engagement will advise a professional-services leadership team on which services to develop, combine, maintain or retire. The central question is where the business can deliver differentiated value repeatedly, with appropriate economics and quality. The advisor must distinguish a compelling proposition from a collection of specialist capabilities that clients cannot readily understand or purchase.
Evidence to assemble
Review client needs, engagement outcomes, win and loss information, delivery effort and the cost of maintaining expertise. Examine services that generate revenue but depend on exceptional individual effort or expose the business to poorly controlled obligations. Investigate opportunities for repeatable delivery without assuming that all professional judgement can be standardised.
Compare the portfolio with available talent and management capacity. Identify services whose growth would require new supervision, technology or professional capabilities. Test whether adjacent offers serve a coherent customer problem or simply expand the catalogue. Use interviews and documented commercial evidence to separate internal enthusiasm from credible demand.
Recommendations that support decisions
Present service-level options with investment needs, economics, dependencies and reasons for withdrawal where appropriate. Advise on the balance between bespoke work and defined offerings, including how exceptions should be priced and approved. Develop a practical validation approach for proposed services before leadership commits substantial resources.
The advisor will facilitate portfolio decisions and provide independent challenge. Pricing authority, client acceptance and resource commitments remain with management. Specialist legal or professional requirements must be reviewed by the appropriate advisers before a new service enters the market.
The final decision package
The engagement should leave a coherent portfolio recommendation, explicit investment priorities and a manageable process for future additions. Success means leadership can explain whom each service helps, why the business is qualified to deliver it and what evidence will determine whether continued investment is justified. A larger catalogue is not itself a successful outcome.
Terms
- Where the board sits
- Berlin, Germany
- Applications close
- 10 November 2026
- Appointment
- Advisory engagement
- Compensation
- EUR 1,100–1,700 per day (indicative advisory day rate)
Before you apply — an advisory engagement
No office of director, and no appointment formalities.
An advisory engagement creates no directorship in Germany. There is no registry filing, no regulator pre-approval, no residency arithmetic and no statutory director liability — which is why it is so often the right first step into a market you do not yet know.
- On this brief
- Independence
- Where the engagement specifies independence from any search that follows, that is a requirement of the engagement rather than a courtesy — an adviser to a board is not a candidate for it.
Also open in Germany
All seats in this market →Interim Chief Information Officer — Scale-up
Germany·Public-Interest & Regulated Services
State-linked public-interest and regulated services organisation
As Interim Chief Information Officer of a state-linked organisation in public-interest and regulated services, you would answer to the Group Chief Executive Officer and lead technology for 24 months, including the governance of AI decisions through evidence, override and retirement controls.
Interim Chief Supply Chain and Operations Officer — Operating Controls
Germany·Telecommunications & Technology
Venture-backed telecommunications and technology organisation
Some operating practices deserve to be scaled and others retired, and over 24 months someone has to make those calls and carry them through. In a venture-funded telecommunications and technology business, that work belongs to an interim chief officer for supply chain and operations, who reports to the Country Managing Director.
Interim Chief Audit Executive — Value Agenda
Germany·Banking & Financial Services
Mid-cap listed banking and financial services organisation
Treat, transfer or exit: every material exposure on the books of a mid-cap listed bank needs one of those labels within 12 months. Applying them falls to an Interim Chief Audit Executive accountable to the Group Chief Executive Officer.
Global ID Exchange
One account. Every market your record travels to.
Registering is free and you can apply straight away — one application a fortnight. Pass the free assessment and you are certified for a year, with one application a week. Foresight Infinity (US$250 a month) raises that to one application a day and carries your applications ahead of free members; Foresight Infinity Plus (US$500 a month) carries them first, the moment they arrive.