Is this normal staffing or is my team just unusually top‑heavy? Any consulting firms where Managers and Senior Managers are on multiple projects?

For the past two years, I’m getting staffed with a full‑time Manager and a full‑time Senior Managers on every project, plus oversight from a Director and Partner. With no team below me and myself at 50% on the projects, I’m mostly taking notes and focused on offline delivery, which makes it hard to build the experience needed for a Senior Consultant.

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Feels top heavy. Only time I’ve experienced this is if we have a big client that’s at risk.

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At Accenture, this is normal for assessment type projects where the goal is to convince client to buy a lot more work. Usually we invest to get more senior people there to build relationships.

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That’s a great idea in theory, but in practice when I’ve asked, I’ve been asked to handle the entire assessment execution, lead all client meetings, and manage the delivery work myself. They won’t reduce their hours or add staff under me, which is the only way I could step up without carrying a 100+ hour week workload. The Senior Manager and Manager are intent on keeping hours on the engagement, and they won’t share broader client context because asking big‑picture or “why” questions is treated as questioning authority or being difficult. My Manager has also said they need to prove their value creation…

The more I type the more I realize I need to find a different team.

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The levels are not equivalent across firms. At my firm, SMs are essentially the engagement leaders and juggle multiple engagements. We typically eat hours for the sake of margin, even though it negatively impacts our utilization.

Clients don’t want to pay high rates, so even though you may see senior leadership, they may not bill.

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Sounds like Deloitte

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Yeah, that's kinda the opposite of the traditional leverage model. I can see a full time manager if you have a few compatriots at your level that need tending, but a full time senior manager is kinda bizarre on all but the largest long running projects.

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My projects with really heavy manager involvement have a maximum of 40% of the total project hours allocated to manger+ and 60% to the consultant/senior consultant levels.

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