Business Management Consulting Professionals
Job description
These individuals provide management support to companies in various fields. They suggest, plan, and implement improvements to management methods and processes.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Assess the operation and effectiveness of management policies and programs.
- Propose improvements to business methods, systems, and procedures (operations, human resources, records management, communications, etc.).
- Conduct quality checks.
- Develop management standards and conduct quality control to meet International Organization for Standardization (ISO) criteria.
- Plan the reorganization of operations.
- Supervise contract researchers or clerical staff as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to senior or managerial positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $27.50
- Median
- $42.86
- Maximum
- $62.56
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 47.8% Female
- 52.2% Male
- 47.8% Female
- 52.2% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
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NAICS 5416, 541725% of jobs
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NAICS 9113% of jobs
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 5268% of jobs
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NAICS 54158% of jobs
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NAICS 414% of jobs
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Others42% of jobs
All of Québec
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NAICS 5416, 541725% of jobs
-
NAICS 9113% of jobs
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 5268% of jobs
-
NAICS 54158% of jobs
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NAICS 414% of jobs
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Others42% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
University
Accounting or accounting science
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 86.6%
9.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 88.9%
7.4% of graduates pursue further studies
- HEC Montréal
- Concordia University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université Laval
- McGill University
Banking and financial transactions
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 92.5%
2.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 81.8%
14% of graduates pursue further studies
Business administration
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 84.1%
12.1% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 92%
3.1% of graduates pursue further studies
- HEC Montréal
- Bishop's University
- Concordia University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université Laval
- McGill University
- TÉLUQ
Business management and administration
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 93%
1.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 93.3%
3.5% of graduates pursue further studies
- HEC Montréal
- Bishop's University
- Concordia University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université Laval
- McGill University
Economics
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 67%
26.1% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 84.2%
5.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Industrial and administrative engineering
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 82.4%
11% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 89.8%
6.1% of graduates pursue further studies
Industrial relations
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 87%
10.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 97.4%
2.6% of graduates pursue further studies
International business
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 84%
9.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 74.2%
19.7% of graduates pursue further studies
Management information
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 92.3%
3.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 86.7%
13.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Marketing and purchasing
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 82.8%
12.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 85.7%
9.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Personnel management
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 87.7%
6.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 88.6%
2.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Production management
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 92.4%
3% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 88.2%
5.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Accreditation from the Canadian Health Information Management Association may be required.
- Accreditation as a quality auditor may be required.
- Basic computer skills often required.
- Knowledge of the existing computerized system often required.
- Graduate degree in business administration may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Critical thought
- Systems evaluation
- Written expression
- Oral expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- System analysis
- Result evaluation
- Social perception
- Solving complex problems
- Coordination
- Active learning
- Operation analysis
- Teaching
- Time management
- Service oriented
- Persuasion
- Human resource management
- Mathematics
- Negotiation
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Written comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written expression
- Inductive reasoning
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Information organization
- Idea generation
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Classification
- Originality
- Mathematical reasoning
Knowledge and attributes
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of economics and accounting
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Rigour
- Sense of initiative
- Capacity for synthesis
- Desire to upgrade one’s competencies
- Commitment to quality
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Self-employment
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Official name of the NOC 11201
Professional occupations in business management consulting
Job titles
- Organizational analysis consultant
- Corporate development planning adviser
- Business management analyst
- Organizational analyst
- Organization and methods officer
- Regulatory compliance officer
- Regulatory affairs officer
- Industrial and commercial methods analyst
- Business methods analyst
- Supply chain process analyst
- Occupational analyst - services to management firms
- Filing systems analyst
- Records management systems analyst
- Business analyst project manager
- Regulatory affairs analyst
- Methods and cost analyst
- Methods and procedures analyst
- Time study analyst - services to management firms
- Work study analyst
- Management analyst
- Price management analyst
- Conference facilitator
- Regulatory affairs associate
- Supply chain project manager
- Point of sale system manager
- Organization and methods researcher
- Management consultant
- Work reorganization consultant
- Certified management consultant
- Iso consultant
- Operations management senior consultant
- Business consultant
- Export trade consultant
- Health information management consultant
- Transition management consultant
- Business management consultant
- Standards coordinator
- Records manager - business services
- File manager
- Corporate planner
- Regulatory compliance specialist
- Records management specialist
- Security management specialist
- Regulatory affairs specialist
- Standards specialist
- Direct mail specialist
- Team training specialist
- Records filing systems analysts supervisor
- Work study analysts supervisor
- Forms management analysts supervisor
- Client group supervisor
- Industrial standards quality auditor
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Related occupations
- Business development officers and market researchers and analysts
- Economists and economic policy researchers and analysts
- Financial and investment analysts
- Financial auditors and accountants
- Health information management occupations
- Industrial and manufacturing engineers
- Other financial officers
- Records management technicians
Last update: January 29, 2026