A business consultant, also sometimes known as a management consultant or simply a consultant, offers advice and guidance to businesses and organisations.
They use their business skills to offer expert advice as to how a company can maximise strategy, increase profits, add value and resolve issues. Essentially they use their specialist skills to improve the overall operations of a company, so may require working with several different teams.

Business consultants can help to improve a number of different areas within a particular business, including finance, marketing, HR, IT and management. Typically, a company does not hire a business consultant themselves, but rather they approach an agency or consultancy firm, who provide them with a business consultant for a fee. As such, a business consultant may offer their specialist services to multiple companies simultaneously and rarely works with just one specific company. Some additional responsibilities of a business consultant may include:

- Researching a company
- Analysing data and statistics
- Interviewing company employees
- Discussing the advantages and disadvantages of strategies
- Gathering and preparing information for presentations
- Implementing solutions to problems
- Frequently liaising with clients