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Lead client-facing advisory engagements, direct delivery teams and workstreams, run workshops, manage scope/timelines, produce and present deliverables, support business development, and mentor team members to enhance advisory offerings.
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
Senior Consultant - Advisory
Seasoned customer facing consultant with established leadership skills directing a diverse team of advisory and delivery talent. Supports onsite, hands-on client engagement management by running the engagement projects or workstreams. Guides day-to-day work efforts for one or more workstreams and coordinates with other workstream leaders to ensure a comprehensive solution. Primary troubleshooter for daily project issue and risks. They generate proposals with the team, ensuring appropriate solutions to problems, and implement decisions on the way forward by acting as liaisons between the client and the delivery team.
Focused primarily on successful delivery but utilizes their position to identify client needs and relationships and good will with the client. Senior Consultants keep in close contact with clients throughout the duration of the project as part of their official duties.
Senior Consultants require approval from their management prior to making any significant change to a given program.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate sections of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
- Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
- Lead technical project teams in the delivery of consulting service offerings
- Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
- Breaks down the problem into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect the problem and decides how to approach the project
- Creation and editing on project deliverables
- Presentation of deliverables to client executive management
- Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings that help qualify opportunities and allow the ideation of a strawman proposal
- On occasion, represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients
- Participate in the development and enhancement of AHEAD Advisory services offerings, including consulting offerings and deployment services
- Technology thought leader and evangelist
- Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards
- Mentor to team members
Client Delivery:
Business Development:
Practice Development & Thought Leadership:
Qualifications
- Minimum seven years of experience as senior technology leader
- Minimum of three years of executive technology consulting experience
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated Business Acumen
- Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities
- Executive presence
- Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent
- MBA is a plus
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
Use of AI:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at [email protected].
You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
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