We shape change with clients who really mean it. We mainly work on long term consulting projects that combine classical strategic top management consulting with exceptionally great change management. Those two combined make up what we coined “consulting 2.0”

Differences to classical consultancies (excerpt):

Top tier consultancies primarily support functionally and strategically. If they provide change services at all, it’s a clearly second rate topic that doesn’t really fit their own culture. Often, change is confused with informational communication and stakeholder management, which are only parts of good change management. Their projects usually take a few weeks or 3 to 6 months. The implementation of their often excellent concepts mostly remains with the client. In contrast, we …

• … haven’t just theoretically understood that change is crucial for success but also truly live it, combining it with professional and strategic high-quality work and an overview of the big picture
• … integrate our clients in our strategic consulting work, instead of completely doing it for them and in the process reducing their responsibility taking and end product quality, because our clients know many things best about their industry
• … stay as long as the changes take in the minds and hearts, usually 2-5 years

Differences to change consultancies (excerpt):

• In our corporate culture, we live and breathe change in a very transformational manner. Interestingly, this is not common, but you know what they say: the shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot
• Most change consultancies are either extremely small or they are networks. So consultants are mostly freelancers, don’t really know each other and have trouble agreeing to a common work approach and living up to the same quality standards. Composing an excellent consulting and change team based on that is difficult. The core idea of transformational behavior requires closeness, long-term orientation and meaningful shared goals. This  doesn’t really suit a network culture that entails more cultural distance, different interests, and in a systemic view is rather a “bunch” than a “team” or a true community
• We live a model in which people develop and train each other professionally and personally very intensively over the years. We use about 40% of our time for internal purposes. Most change consultancies act opportunistically and employ freelancers for their projects. As these are no “natives” of the company, they tend to keep the investment in their education and development rather low

The Timmermann culture brims with transformality. The core of transformationality is a focus on long term joint development, inspirational motivation, providing intellectual stimulation, appreciating each other, being a true role model (also in learning), trusting each another and having close relationships and shared goals. The opposite of our transformational culture is a transactional culture that relies on maximizing own advantages. It’s viewing the world as a zero sum game in which my loss is your gain and vice versa. This fosters silo thinking, “political behavior”, a lack of responsibility taking and a rough environment. At Timmermann, we constantly strive for both emotional and professional development. We are a learning community that strives for excellence and we truly live our values. One example of this is the way we give very direct positive and critical feedback to each other, which is rooted in a deep appreciation and has the goal of helping every single one of us to achieve excellence. Not only do we give feedback to help our colleagues to improve, but we also demand it from them, to help our personal development.

Like other consultancies, we work in project teams. Since our projects usually have a duration of more than 2 years, most of us works on 2 to 3 projects at a time. Despite having more than one client at a time, we travel less than most other consultants and we spend more time in the office, here at our beautiful Timmermann Campus in Munich, where we develop concepts for our clients or work on internal projects. Typical consultant tasks include:

• Developing “playbooks”, e.g., for trainings and workshops
• Moderating workshops and trainings
• Problem solving with the Timmermann project team and/or with the client
• Developing concepts and PowertPoint presentations
• Having feedback sessions
• Joint lunch (often with a lunch & learn session) with all Timmermen and -women at the Timmermann Campus

Our projects have a standardized team structure. On every project, there are 4 different roles.

• Partner
• Project Leader
• Consultant
• Junior Consultant

In smaller projects, two roles are sometimes covered by the same person, in large projects there is often more than one person per role.

Every role has its own specific tasks and responsibilities. At the same time, team members work together extensively in problem solving sessions, feedback sessions, and strategic conversations

Our “home base” is the Timmermann Campus in Munich. We travel to our clients, when we can best help them face to face. How often you would travel to our clients depends on …

• … Your role in the project (Project Leaders spend much more time visiting clients than Junior Consultants (our word for consulting interns))
• … The phase the project is currently in (at the start of a Project, we usually spend more time face to face with clients)

Currently, most of our clients are based in the German speaking countries  (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), but we usually work with clients that are engaged globally, which brings along projects in a number of countries, where we also travel to support our clients. Roughly speaking: in the beginning you will be travelling for 1-2 days a week, later on 2-3 days. So all in all, we travel less than the 4 days that are typical for most consulting firms

Usually, our projects have a project team, also on the side of the client. We work especially close with the members of this project team. We introduce them to change topics, support them in their personal development (which also gets us to work on ourselves), and we develop concepts and solutions together with them. To that end, we often work face to face with our clients or we conduct team trainings with them. We are also in steady contact with our clients via telephone and email and from time to time we invite clients over to join us at the Timmermann Campus and enjoy our buzzing Change and innovation atmosphere.

Since our projects have a focus on sustainable improvements and really having a lasting effect on our clients, we work quite long projects of usuallay 2-3 years. This long-term project structure leads to most Timmermen/-women working on 2 client projects at a time. Each of our projects is characterized by intense, close cooperation with many different colleagues and clients

Since our work involves changing entire corporations, we are in contact with clients from all hierarchy levels and functions. We work especially closely with top management and project team members on the client’s side. Typically, the intensity of client contact depends on your role as a Timmerman/-woman.

• As a Partner you work directly with board members and top management
• As Project Leader you work closely with middle management
• As a (Senior) Consultant you work primarily with the middle management and employees
• As a Junior-Consultant you mostly work with employees and sometimes the middle management

No, we work with companies from various industries. Historically, we have done an especially high number of of projects in the following industries: Financial services, engineering, chemical companies, automotive, utilities, travel & logistics

Applicants for all consulting positions move through our five step application process, however there are slight variations to the process, depending on which position you apply for. After each step both you and we can decide to end the process or to move on to the next step. Those steps are:

1. Screening of relevant documents
2. Telephone interview
3. Personal interview and case study
4. One day trial work (only for consultant and higher positions)
5. Sharing a freetime activity with our Managing Partner Michael Timmermann (only for consultants and higher positions), or a conversation on the phone with a(n) (Associate) Partner (for the Junior Consultant position)

The application process for all non-consulting positions differs. If you plan to apply to such a position, please send in all relevant documents to initiate the application process. We will get back to you and inform you of the next steps. No matter the position you are applying for, we really want to get to know you, both personally and professionally

All you have to do for the telephone interview is to ask yourself one question: “Why am I truly interested in consulting, change Management, and Timmermann Partners?“

In the personal interview and case study we mainly look at the way you solve problems. To prepare, we recommend to practice typical consulting case studies. There are a number of books written specifically to practice for job interviews in consultancies. Those can give you a good impression, the main thing is that you practice a lot, don’t only read(!) those books! And focus on learning to structure your approach and thoughts. Of course, our case studies differ somewhat, because they also include change management questions.

Yes! We look for open-hearted, intelligent, authentic people, irrespective of your professional background

Whether you apply for an internship as mandatory part of your studies at University, or simply because you want to gain more experience, does not matter to us. In either case, feel free to apply as a Junior Consultant (consulting intern), HR Intern, or Marketing Intern. Usually, internships at Timmermann last around 6 months with a wage of 1.839 € per month.

Yes! Both for interns and for permanent employees, we offer a luxurious shared appartment on the Timmermann Campus. Usually a room is available. This comes with great roommates and is even subsidised by the us.

Ja, wir haben sogar eine luxuriöse Timmermann WG in der Villa Wiiirklich auf dem Timmermann Campus, in dem Sie sich ohne Suche als WG-BewohnerIn von uns subventioniert einmieten können und gleich sehr nette MitbewohnerInnen haben