Consulting Engagement Lead

Overview

Bachelor's degree.

Your future has many paths. Be ready for them all. Toffler Associates is a future-focused strategic advisory firm that works with both government and commercial clients. Our Future Proof® business consulting approach makes us unique in the industry, helping global leaders understand how future shifts impact current decisions and empowering them to take advantage of opportunities, manage risk, and create value.

Our firm is seeking a Consulting Engagement Lead to join our growing team. This person will be working on strategic client projects, including those with federal government agencies. In this role, you will oversee project planning, resource management, stakeholder engagement and ensure the successful delivery of complex solutions. Additionally, you provide strategic insights which will contribute to business development initiatives, expanding client relationships and identifying new opportunities.

With expertise in strategic analysis and risk planning, this person will manage project financials, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact.

• Providing strategic insights that will contribute to business development initiatives
• Expanding client relationships and identifying new opportunities
• Applying expertise in strategic analysis and risk planning
• Managing project financials, budgeting, and forecasting
• Ensuring high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact

• 5-7 years of experience working in cybersecurity with a strong command of basic cyber policies, guidelines, and strategies
• High level of practical AI fluency across client work and internal process optimization (e.g., using LLMs, building agentic workflows, building automations, architecting advanced AI concepts)
• Competent in AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini) and able to use AI to accelerate analysis, workflows, prototypes, and deliverables
• Must reside in and be willing to commute regularly within the Washington, DC metropolitan area; hybrid work environment anticipated, including on-site and virtual locations
• U.S. citizenship (the nature of our work with the federal government limits our hiring to U.S. citizens)
• Ability to obtain and maintain up to a top-secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree

• Strategic thinker with strong systems thinking and first principles reasoning
• Ability to translate strategy to execution and own execution, working cross-functionally across client spaces to drive change while considering relationships and culture
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring structure to open-ended problems
• Strong executive presence with the ability to engage senior clients
• Confident facilitator able to guide discussions, manage conflict, and drive alignment
• Strong storyteller capable of creating compelling narratives, insights, and recommendations
• Relationship builder with strong client-service orientation
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable with both quantitative and qualitative data
• Highly organized; able to manage multiple work streams, deliverables, and internal/external expectations; can manage up
• Experience with managing complex team structures and project budgets
• Knowledge of key consulting frameworks and concepts (Mento Pyramid, MECE, Choice Cascade, 7S, Growth Share)
• Experience serving Air Force clients or working in the Air Force context; familiarity with the defense R&D/acquisition community
• Experience conducting data analytics

• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Skilled in Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint)

• Able to identify, frame, and scope problems across all consulting disciplines: strategy, operations, human capital, technology, and AI
• Confident engaging new people and building relationships across all levels
• Creative in identifying pathways into organizations, buyers, and influencers
• Comfortable shaping solution options and articulating value drivers
• Understanding of the full sales lifecycle and able to assist in developing proposals, estimates, and statements of work

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