Management consultant cover letter example
A consulting cover letter is read by a partner who wants to know what you have fixed and for whom. Name the role, give one project with its number, show you stayed to put the plan in place, and say why this practice.
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Ravi Menon
London · [email protected] · 07700 900274
17 October 2026
Ms Lorna Whitaker
Partner, Public Sector Operations
Sandersby Partners
3 Carlow Street
London EC4A 9ZX
Dear Ms Whitaker
Application for Manager, Public Sector Operations
I am applying for the Manager post in your Public Sector Operations practice. I am a senior consultant at Calderbrook Consulting, where for the last three years I have led workstreams on operations and cost reviews for NHS trusts, councils and retailers.
On an NHS trust’s discharge review I interviewed 60 staff, mapped each step from the decision to discharge to the patient leaving, and built a model of bed days and staffing that showed £1.4 million a year of savings. I presented the options to the trust’s board, which adopted four of our six recommendations.
I also stay for the part after the report. I spent six months with a council’s waste service while it brought in a new rota, and missed collections fell by a third. Your practice’s work helping public bodies carry out change, not only plan it, is why I am applying.
My CV is attached, and I can attend an interview at short notice. Thank you for considering my application.
Yours sincerely
Ravi Menon
Fictional letter from Ravi Menon, the applicant in the management consultant CV example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the Manager post in your Public Sector Operations practice. I am a senior consultant at Calderbrook Consulting, where for the last three years I have led workstreams on operations and cost reviews for NHS trusts, councils and retailers.
The role, where you work now and the clients you know.
On an NHS trust’s discharge review I interviewed 60 staff, mapped each step from the decision to discharge to the patient leaving, and built a model of bed days and staffing that showed £1.4 million a year of savings. I presented the options to the trust’s board, which adopted four of our six recommendations.
One project, how you found the facts and what it was worth.
I also stay for the part after the report. I spent six months with a council’s waste service while it brought in a new rota, and missed collections fell by a third. Your practice’s work helping public bodies carry out change, not only plan it, is why I am applying.
The change you saw through, and why this practice.
My CV is attached, and I can attend an interview at short notice. Thank you for considering my application.
The CV, when you are free and a short close.