Manager, Management Consulting

Trace3 is a leading Transformative IT Authority, providing unique technology solutions and consulting services to our clients. Equipped with elite engineering and dynamic innovation, we empower IT executives and their organizations to achieve competitive advantage through a process of Integrate, Automate, Innovate.

Our culture at Trace3 embodies the spirit of a startup with the advantage of a scalable business. Employees can grow their career and have fun while doing it!

Trace3 is headquartered in Irvine, California. We employ more than 1,200 people all over the United States. Our major field office locations include Denver, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Lexington, Los Angeles, Louisville, Texas, San Francisco.

We are flexible and resilient in a fast-changing environment. We continuously innovate and drive constructive change while keeping a focus on the “big picture.” We exercise sound business judgment in making high-quality decisions in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are highly creative and can dig deep within ourselves to find positive solutions to different problems.

We get things done and drive results. We lead without a title, empowering others through a can-do attitude. We look forward to the goal, mentally mapping outevery checkpoint on the pathway to success, and visualizing what the final destination looks and feels like.

We are humble individuals who understand how our job impacts the company's mission. We treat others with respect, admit mistakes, give credit where it’s due and demonstrate transparency. We “bring the weather” by exhibiting positive leadership and solution-focused thinking. We hug people in their trials, struggles, and failures – not just their success. We appreciate the individuality of the people around us.

The Management Consulting, Manager will harness passion for innovative technology to partner with Trace3 clients in the development of strategic planning and roadmaps. The role will provide oversight and serve as the guiding force behind transformational initiatives. The Management Consulting, Manager’s leadership will drive the execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives and key projects, while creating and delivering programs and plans to help maximize adoption.

This will involve leveraging Trace3’s deep expertise in technology platforms and solutions, as well as managing the people side of change, the impacts to business processes, ensuring cohesive system designs, and the appropriate data architecture. This role will be responsible for understanding our clients’ business centric issues and design solutions that will result in achieving the clients’ desired outcomes.

• Lead end-to-end delivery for complex, multi‑workstream technology programs (e.g., cloud, data/AI, cybersecurity, enterprise platforms), establishing program governance, PMO cadence, and cross‑workstream orchestration (RAID, dependencies, critical path, change control, financials, benefits tracking).
• Define program scope, OKRs/success metrics, integrated roadmaps, resource plans, and interdependencies; ensure requirements traceability to business outcomes and adoption plans.
• Create executive‑ready dashboards and status reporting for scope, schedule, budget, risk, and benefits realization to maintain alignment and transparency.
• Work closely with clients to understand their challenges, gather and analyze data, formulate hypotheses, and define actionable plans to solutions.
• Deliver thoughtful recommendations through compelling presentations to ultimately influence business decisions
• Lead the design and execution of technical capability assessments, analyzing results and presenting recommendations in an effective, logical manner to the client
• Serve as an integrated Program Manager responsible for guiding, setting expectations and methodology from planning to execution
• Manage the scope, requirements, resources and budget for all…