As a Director, Strategy & Execution Consulting, you will be a part of a fast-paced environment helping clients solve complex issues and delivering exceptional results. You are both a self-driven management consultant who excels at guiding organizations to accomplish their strategic objectives through effective execution, and a servant leader who believes that delivery excellence is essential and works to elevate the performance of the whole team. You have the proven ability to effectively manage transformation projects of medium to large size (global and non-global), ambiguous and complex structure, with varying technical and business requirements. Our Directors thrive when they can dig in with their sleeves rolled up from day one to understand the internal landscape, build relationships with the client and internal team, and follow through on execution to achieve a desired outcome.
As a member of the Pioneer extended leadership team, you will contribute to the company and practice vision, strategy, and priorities. You will have opportunities to grow the business through client delivery, people leadership, practice development, and business development. You will be responsible for a team of consultants’ performance management and career development.
Responsibilities include:
Ownership of Strategy & Execution Offerings
- Strategy Formulation: define strategic goals through external and internal research; clarify purpose, vision, and set value targets for strategy
- Strategy Activation: translate strategy into actionable roadmap with clear target state and achievable milestones, and communicate a compelling story to the organization
- Strategy Enablement: supporting structure and process design to ensure strategic activities are prioritized and target state value is achieved
- Process Optimization: analyze current state business processes to design optimized ways of working for individuals, teams, and functions to achieve organizational value
- Program Leadership: lead strategic programs to execute on strategic goals focused on problem solving beyond scope, schedule, and budget
Client Delivery
- Own a portfolio of projects with full oversight and responsibility for delivery excellence
- Lead, deliver or jump-start delivery efforts in the assigned practice
- Build, develop and maintain long-term relationships with clients at the Executive level
- Engage clients to develop and offer unique, measurable services that meet their needs
- Assume ownership of projects while simultaneously leading a team
Leadership
- Create a highly capable and high performing team within the Strategy & Execution practice
- Plan for team growth and participate in recruiting process to fill open roles
- Manage team members and projects to Pioneer standard operating procedures
- Lead and develop the career path for 4-8 direct reports and scale their influence
- Manage key results and ensure each team members meet or exceed expectations
Practice Development
- Contribute to practice action plan to grow sales, create new service offerings to client challenges
- Provide expertise to deepen and expand the firms’ product offerings and client solutions
- Act as thought leader for the practice area (i.e. blog posts, articles, speaking at events etc.)
- Provide ongoing training and coaching to the Strategy & Execution team
- Develop and maintain Pioneer Strategy & Execution standards and practices
Business Development
- Provide subject matter expertise and collaborate with business development team to drive growth and scope opportunities
- Contribute to proposal development, proposal requirements and proposal writing as a part of managing our sales process
Qualifications:
- 5 years of consulting leadership experience
- 10 years project/program management with success managing medium to large projects using various methodologies
- 5 years leading and developing a team of direct reports
- Experience working with formal process improvement projects (PMI, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Lean process improvement, value improvement etc. )
- Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with experience in technology implementation or systems integration
- Proven ability to thrive in ambiguity and manage many responsibilities at one time to effectively partner with clients throughout the project lifecycle
- Track record of successfully fostering client account growth and development
- Proven skills in the identification and resolution of client challenges
- Demonstrated ability to effectively expand professional networks through strategic relationship building and engagement
- The ability to be a person of influence with executive level teams to drive results.
- Strong business acumen, can convey complex ideas clearly and concisely for all levels of leadership and professional audiences through verbal, written and facilitation.
- High level of proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite
- Passionate about leading with humility, driving hard to do great work, while being connected to the team and things you love outside of work
- Ability to commute to various clients across the Twin Cities metro area
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
Location:
- Pioneer Minneapolis Office: 729 Washington Ave N, Suite 600, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (Must be currently local to Minneapolis, MN)