IT Transformation Program Consultant

Beacon Hill Staffing Group; Lake Forest (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group is seeking an IT Transformation Program Consultant to support a major initiative based out of their Lake Forest office. The role is primarily on-site, with three days on site in Lake Forest, IL.

You will partner with the CIO and IT Senior Leadership Team to align technology investments, risk management, dependencies, and benefits realization with the Transformation agenda over a three-year horizon.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across technology, program management, transformation, or related disciplines.
• Significant experience leading large-scale, multi-year enterprise transformation or technology programs.
• Experience working directly with CIOs, senior executives, and governance forums.
• Experience coordinating multiple technology domains and interdependent workstreams.
• Strong financial and investment-management acumen; executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Represent IT across a three-year enterprise Transformation Program and ensure alignment of technology strategy, investments, capabilities, risks, resources, and delivery commitments with the Transformation agenda.
• Serve as the voice of IT within the Transformation Program and as the voice of the Transformation Program within IT, ensuring accountability and connection between priorities and execution.
• Work closely with the CIO and IT SLT on Transformation matters, providing decision-ready information regarding program health, implications, and dependencies.

Job description

Our client is actively seeking an IT Transformation Program Consultant to support a major initiative based out of their Lake Forest office.

This opportunity is 3 days onsite in Lake Forest, IL

Summary

The Executive Program Manager, IT Transformation is a senior technology leadership role accountable for representing IT across a three-year enterprise Transformation Program. Serving as the primary point of integration between the CIO, IT Senior Leadership Team (IT SLT), enterprise Transformation leadership, and transformation workstreams, this role ensures technology strategy, investments, capabilities, dependencies, risks, resources, and delivery commitments remain aligned with the overall Transformation agenda.

This individual serves as the voice of IT within the Transformation Program and the voice of the Transformation Program within IT, creating clear accountability and a consistent connection between enterprise transformation priorities and technology execution.

The role works closely with the CIO and participates with the IT SLT on Transformation matters, providing decision-ready information regarding program health, technology implications, competing priorities, investment requirements, delivery risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, and decisions requiring executive intervention.

Experience:

• 12+ years of progressively responsible experience across technology, program management, transformation, portfolio management or related disciplines.
• Significant experience leading large-scale, complex, multi-year enterprise transformation or technology programs.
• Demonstrated experience operating directly with CIOs, senior executives and executive governance forums.
• Experience coordinating multiple technology domains and workstreams with substantial interdependencies.
• Demonstrated financial and investment-management acumen.
• Experience navigating highly matrixed organizations where success depends on influence rather than positional authority.
• Experience presenting complex program and technology topics to senior executives.
• Demonstrated experience in program governance, risk management, dependency management, executive escalation and benefits/outcome management.