Senior Manager

Senior Manager, Consulting (Engagement and Program Leadership)

The Senior Manager role is a senior consulting leadership position responsible for owning multiple complex client engagements, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, and driving high quality execution across teams. Senior Managers operate with significant autonomy, translating strategy into delivery, managing scope and resourcing, and ensuring projects move from ambiguity to measurable outcomes. This role also includes meaningful responsibility for talent development and business growth.

• Provide end to end leadership for multiple concurrent client engagements, setting direction, priorities, and delivery cadence

• Own program governance, including scope, timelines, resourcing, risks, and interdependencies across work streams

• Partner with senior stakeholders to define success metrics and translate strategic objectives into executable plans

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive level clients, navigating both strategic and organizational dynamics

• Ensure consistent, high quality delivery by overseeing teams, reviewing outputs, and course correcting as needed

• Design and facilitate executive meetings and workshops that drive clarity, alignment, and decision making

• Adapt frameworks and methodologies to client context while maintaining delivery discipline and rigor

• Identify opportunities to expand scope or deepen impact within existing engagements and support business development through scoping and proposal development

• Serve as a Career Manager, coaching and developing team members across levels

• Mentor Managers and Consultants, modeling strong judgment, executive presence, and delivery excellence

• Lead or contribute meaningfully to internal initiatives related to operations, process improvement, or intellectual property development

• Support sales efforts through proposal contributions, client storytelling, and participation in pitch meetings as appropriate

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred

• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex programs and multiple work streams simultaneously

• Strong analytical and structured thinking skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear execution plans

• Proven judgment in ambiguous, high stakes environments

• Experience engaging senior leaders and navigating sensitive organizational dynamics

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and align stakeholders

• High attention to detail, responsiveness, and follow through

• Flexibility to meet project demands, including occasional extended hours

• Willingness to travel up to approximately 30 percent

• Strategic, pragmatic thinker with a strong bias toward execution

• Comfortable owning outcomes in shifting, ambiguous environments

• Energized by complex, people centered business challenges

• Growth minded and reflective, actively seeking and integrating feedback

• Invests in talent development and builds strong, trust based relationships

• Leads with humility, integrity, urgency, and accountability