Pros
As a mid-sized but growing firm, there are fantastic opportunities to pivot your career - narrowing / broadening focus; moving to lead programmes; stepping out of procurement delivery and moving into directly supporting business growth through sales or developing internal operations to support that growth. If you have the interest and the aptitude, the opportunities are there. Beyond the 'day job' there is also the ability to influence the direction of the business - whether that be via involvement in DEI initiatives; driving internal communities of practice; working groups looking at reward; projects to improve capture and use of IP; development of new business services lines etc etc. That can really help keep things fresh. All of the above is nice, but what makes a place of work is the people. Proxima undoubtedly has very talented people (in common with many consultancies), but where it stands out is on the culture: built around helping each other to deliver great work, and on trying to have fun while doing so. Finally, Proxima has a suite of exceptional clients, and as such offers fantastic opportunities to learn about and work with leading firms in a variety of industries. I'd recommend it to anybody looking for a place to dip their toe into consultancy, or for people who feel like too small a cog at larger firms.
Cons
Like with any consultancy, there can be challenges in terms of travel, but the resourcing team do everything they can to make this as painless as possible / to rotate people out of far-flung engagements (for them) as quickly and seamlessly as possible. As a small to medium-sized enterprise, there can be challenges in absorbing peaks of demand across the resource pool - but on the flip side, this does present opportunities for people to lead work that they might in normal times have been tasked to support, so something of a double-edged sword.
