Engagement Manager (Remote)
TEKsystems
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TEKsystems Global Services is seeking an Engagement Manager to lead engagements, manage client expectations, and ensure successful delivery—on time and within budget. This role oversees budgeting, forecasting, and stakeholder communications while guiding teams toward measurable outcomes and client satisfaction.
Based in Seattle with remote capabilities, the EM will drive business development opportunities and collaborate with practice partners to expand services.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of project management experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills (English).
- Analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Time management and organizational skills.
- People management skills.
- Experience in project management fundamentals or as an acting Scrum Master.
- Exposure to professional services agreements, including change management.
- Exposure to IT Managed Services, project management classes, and other IT certifications.
- Demonstrated project risk analysis and mitigation skills.
Responsibilities
- Engagement Management: Overseeing engagements to ensure objectives are met, delivered on time, and within budget.
- Financial Management: Managing the financial aspects of engagements, including budgeting, forecasting, and ensuring profitability.
- Resource Allocation and Optimization: Ensuring efficient utilization of resources across engagements, optimizing team performance and engagement outcomes.
- Risk Management and Mitigation: Identifying potential risks early and implementing mitigation strategies to ensure engagement stability.
- Client Relationship Management: Building rapport and maintaining relationships with client stakeholders to understand their long-term goals and align services accordingly.
- Stakeholder Communication: Providing regular updates to internal/external stakeholders on engagement progress, challenges, and outcomes.
- Performance Reporting: Preparing detailed performance reports and presenting them to senior management and clients.
- Team Leadership and Development: Lead engagement teams, mentor junior resources, and foster a collaborative team environment.
- Client Satisfaction and Retention: Focus on client satisfaction and retention by delivering high-quality services and promptly addressing issues.
- Business Development: Identifies opportunities and collaborates with sales/practice partners to upsell and cross-sell to existing clients, contributing to organic business growth.
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Description
Think of TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) as today's growth solution for enterprises. We unleash growth through technology, strategy, design, execution, and operations with a customer-first mindset for bold business leaders. We deliver cloud, data, and customer experience solutions. Our partnerships with leading cloud, design, and business intelligence platforms fuel our expertise. We value deep relationships, dedication to serving others, and inclusion. We drive positive outcomes for our people and our business, stay true to our commitments, and act in harmony with our words. We exist to create significant opportunity for people to achieve fulfillment through career success.
Heres what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires:
The Engagement Manager (EM) is a delivery leadership position within the TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) organization, responsible for managing one or more engagements or engagement teams at a time. The EM manages customer expectations through regular check-ins and timely updates on engagement progress. The EM ensures service delivery and aligns outcomes with client success criteria. The role quantifies the business benefits of engagement outcomes throughout the engagement lifecycle. This position requires strong project management skills, proficiency in relevant technical practices, and a proven track record of successful client engagements. The role is measured by customer satisfaction, customer retention/expansion, financial targets achieved, and billable utilization for all engagements in their portfolio. This role may require travel several times per year.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Engagement Management: Overseeing engagements to ensure objectives are met, delivered on time, and within budget. Additionally, ensuring internal compliance requirements are met.
Financial Management: Managing the financial aspects of engagements, including budgeting, forecasting, and ensuring profitability.
Resource Allocation and Optimization: Ensuring efficient utilization of resources across engagements, optimizing team performance and engagement outcomes.
Risk Management and Mitigation: Identifying potential risks early and implementing mitigation strategies to ensure engagement stability.
Client Relationship Management: Building rapport and maintaining relationships with client stakeholders to understand their long-term goals and align services accordingly.
Stakeholder Communication: Providing regular updates to internal/external stakeholders on engagement progress, challenges, and outcomes.
Performance Reporting: Preparing detailed performance reports and presenting them to senior management and clients.
Team Leadership and Development: Lead engagement teams, mentor junior resources, and foster a collaborative team environment.
Client Satisfaction and Retention: Focus on client satisfaction and retention by delivering high-quality services and promptly addressing issues.
Business Development: Identifies opportunities and collaborates with sales/practice partners to upsell and cross-sell to existing clients, contributing to organic business growth.
Behavioral Competencies and Responsibilities:
Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with urgency, high energy , and enthusiasm.
Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Actively listens to understand customer needs and articulates solution options clearly.
Customer Focus: Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions. Takes a consultative approach to propose solutions that benefit the customer and solve their business needs, being a trusted partner and advisor.
Drives Results: Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. Holds regular team meetings and encourages input from others.
Collaboration: Works well with cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative environment to achieve common goals.
Required Experience:
Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
Minimum of 3 years of project management experience.
Excellent oral and written communication skills (English language).
Analysis and problem-solving skills.
Time management and organizational skills.
People management skills.
Experience in project management fundamentals or as an acting Scrum Master.
Exposure to professional services agreements, including change management.
Exposure to IT Managed Services, project management classes, and other IT certifications.
Demonstrated project risk analysis and mitigation skills.
Preferred Experience:
Experience in the IT Professional Services industry.
Certifications: PMP and/or IAOP (Outsourcing Professional) & Scrum Master certification.
Methodologies: Exposure to Agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP.
This is a Permanent position based out of Seattle, WA.
The pay range for this position is $80000.00 - $120000.00/yr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc. Our full-time, internal employment benefits include the following: Medical, Dental, and Vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents) Short and Long-Term Disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation Benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
This is a Permanent position based out of Seattle, WA.
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 27, 2026.
This is a fully remote position.
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
Were a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. Were a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. Were strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. Were building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.
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