sustainable advantage
Pilgrim Management Consultants is a consulting business that specialises in solving your business problems.
From designing a new facility, or getting financial performance back in the black, to increasing productivity and performance, compressing the cash cycle, or improving service delivery levels, Pilgrim Management Consultants have a verifiable track record in making a difference.
Our client base is extensive and covers a wide range of businesses from blue chip, household names to smaller SMEs and organisations, across a diverse range of business sectors. We operate on a global basis and work closely with partner companies to provide seamless solutions for international programmes of support.
Since being founded in 1996, Pilgrim Management Consultants have developed an enviable reputation for delivering successful solutions and unparalleled value for money, delivering significant return on your investment.
Our approach helps leaders build these skills whilst combining strategic direction, sense making and choice making processes with robust and exciting execution.
Managing performance, for us, is straightforward: Agree what is important. Agree the measures of success. Know your current status against these. Know the gaps and the required closure activity.
And, more importantly, make this system available for all. Every day. Everybody. No excuses.
Every person in the organisation has the power to damage, or enhance, your corporate reputation. To commit fully, you must provide the skills, the example, and the encouragement to address poor quality in real time, and to build quality in at every process step.
Our principle: No Blame: Stop it, Fix it.
Same badge. Same team.
Shared goals, aspirations, and visions all help. But providing people with the skills, the time, the respect, and the opportunity to grow, will ensure that the enterprise grows with them. Empowerment is free.
That’s Business 101.
In the pursuit of excellence, we need to focus on eliminating wasteful activities and costs from our processes. The easier and fewer the steps involved, the higher the quality of outcome, and the faster, more responsive we will be.
Because time really is money.
We work with you to take a ‘cradle-to-cradle’ approach in your product development, supply chain design, and manufacturing and reclamation processes and to take a circular view on how we can reduce waste, reduce cost, and provide a more ecologically sustainable solution set for your customers.
WHY CUSTOMERS CHOOSE US
We deliver.
Our proven methodology for solving your business problem ensures that we give you a return for your investment in us. Whether this takes the form of service improvement, business turnaround, cash release, or bottom-line impact, we ensure that our time spent with you is focused on your end result.
We work with you, not for you.
Clients have long told us that working with Pilgrim is like having a personal coaching service. Where other consultancies can often go native and start working for the client, we always maintain an independent stance, the better to maintain focus on the issue.
We’ve been around.
We’re not some fly by night, kaizen cowboys. We have been doing this for a long time and we have done the hard yards.
Since 1996 actually.
We’ve got you covered.
We get to the point. Quickly.
The world is full of consultancies that prolong the agony, taking a ‘land and expand’ approach, and focusing more on billable time than solving your problem.
We don’t.
We believe that it is in our mutual interest to get to the root of the issue quickly, and this is achieved by putting our full attention on the problem, not the next invoice.
We blend in.
Yes, in dealing with Pilgrim, you are dealing with consultants, but remember: not all consultants are equal. We see ourselves more in a partner role, and in so doing, we quickly build rapport with all levels in your organisation, from boardroom to coal face.
We don’t wear suits, or ties, and have nothing that makes us stand out from the crowd.
Except our results.
On joining the business it became clear that a new long term strategy was required to steer the business through a turbulent political and economic environment.
We worked with Davie on developing a strategy that both pointed the business on a route that navigated those challenges but also addressed the wider initiatives of our owning group.
We recognised the need for solid building blocks in areas to improve but with a vision flexible enough to take us through a changing environment.
I’m really pleased to say that our business plan is now routed firmly in c2c and supported by our stakeholders as a step change in the operation of the business.
Davies manner is warm and personable, using his vast corporate experience to draw parallels and help focus the planning sessions.
Rob Mullen
Managing Director, Train Operating Company
My development has been hugely influenced by John, I am now a keen advocate of the lean principles, before my introduction to him I thought lean was something that belonged in a car manufacturing facility and not a construction project, how wrong I was!
Justin Heasman MCIOB
Operations Director, Mace
Pilgrim are different to any other “consultancies” that I have experienced with in my career.
Simon Hubbard
EMEA Managing Director, Plastics & Compounding
Their pragmatic and action orientated approach quickly puts activity in place to resolve the issue and change performance.
Javid Padamsey
Director of Defence & Energy, Director of Operations Planning
Davie’s approach to Supplier Development is extremely open and flexible.
The best thing about working together was how Davie interacts with both his Clients and Customers.
Jamie Grimes
Procurement and Supply Chain Expert, Aerospace
David and his company are excellent.
I have worked with David, and he’s always delivered.
I would recommend him 100%.
Bob Morley
Vice President, Special Metals
They took time to understand our current state and constructed a phased plan which initially contained the problem whilst the root cause was being addressed.
I would certainly use them again.
Peter Morland
Head of Operational Excellence, Engineering
I have used Pilgrim for years; they provide a method that is effective at problem solving.
Pilgrim have always brought clarity to confusion with clear data and results.
Will Parker
CEO, Packaging