Lead Consultant - Business Solutions (Solutions Lead)

Maximus; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive insurance

401K retirement plan

PTO & holidays

Wellness program

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Wellness resources

Professional development

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Lead Business Solutions Consultant to guide complex solution design, influence business transformation, and deliver innovative solutions with meaningful client impact. This fully remote role requires leadership across the opportunity lifecycle, workshops, and cross-functional collaboration.

Minimum requirements include a bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of relevant experience. The position offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and professional development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience required.
• Leads solution design workstreams for complex pursuits and transformation initiatives.
• Strong facilitation, operating model design, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to align operations, technology, pricing, staffing, implementation, and client outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution strategy and architecture for opportunities, ensuring completeness and delivery-readiness.
• Establish design principles, guardrails, and decision criteria for cross-functional teams.
• Lead solutioning across the opportunity lifecycle from pre-bid through delivery.
• Facilitate workshops and decision forums with cross-functional teams to refine the integrated approach.
• Manage dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks, and alignment across components.
• Translate analytical findings into decision-ready solution inputs and proposal content.

Skills

Solution design leadership

Facilitation

Operating model design

Business process design

Proposal content development

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

Shape strategy. Lead innovation. Drive results. Maximus is seeking Lead Business Solutions Consultants to guide complex solution design initiatives, influence business transformation, and deliver innovative solutions that create meaningful impact for clients and communities.

This is a remote opportunity!

Why Maximus?

• ? Competitive Compensation - bonus potential

• ?️ Comprehensive Insurance Coverage - Choose from various plans, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription, and partially funded HSA. Additionally, enjoy Life insurance benefits and discounts on Auto, Home, Renter's, and Pet insurance.

• ? Future Planning - Prepare for retirement with our 401K Retirement Savings plan and Company Matching.

• ?️ Paid Time Off Package - Enjoy UTO, Holidays, and sick leave, along with Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage.

• ? Holistic Wellness Support - Access resources for physical, emotional, and financial wellness through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• ? Recognition Platform - Acknowledge and appreciate outstanding employee contributions.

• ? Tuition Reimbursement - Invest in your ongoing education and development.

• ? Employee Perks and Discounts - Additional benefits and discounts exclusively for employees.

• ? Maximus Wellness Program and Resources - Access a range of wellness programs and resources tailored to your needs.

• ? Professional Development Opportunities - Participate in training programs, workshops, and conferences.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end solution strategy and architecture for assigned opportunities, ensuring the solution is complete, integrated, compliant, competitive, and delivery-ready.

• Establish solution assumptions, design principles, guardrails, and decision criteria to guide technical, operational, pricing, and delivery teams.

• Resolve solution decisions and tradeoffs by balancing client requirements, capture strategy, delivery feasibility, pricing assumptions, risks, and competitive positioning.

• Lead solutioning across the opportunity lifecycle, from early qualification and pre-bid strategy through proposal submission, governance reviews, and transition to delivery.

• Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and decision forums with cross-functional teams to define, refine, and validate the integrated solution approach.

• Keep the solution integrated and delivery-ready by managing dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks, and alignment across technical, operational, staffing, implementation, and pricing components.

• Assign analytical priorities and workstreams to analysts supporting solution development, including requirements analysis, capability mapping, gap assessment, staffing inputs, risk analysis, and competitive research.

• Review, validate, and synthesize analyst outputs to ensure accuracy, relevance, completeness, and alignment with solution strategy and proposal needs.

• Translate analytical findings into solution decisions, design inputs, assumptions, risks, and proposal content that support a credible and executable solution.

• Develop and contribute to proposal solution content, ensuring narratives accurately reflect the approved solution and remain internally consistent, compliant, and compelling.

• Present and defend solution approaches with internal leadership, capture teams, proposal teams, and, when appropriate, client stakeholders.

• Participate in client workshops, oral presentations, demonstrations, solution walk-throughs, and related engagement activities when needed to support pursuit strategy and solution credibility.

'- Lead business solution design workstreams for pursuits, client opportunities, and transformation initiatives.

• Facilitate discussions with operations, technology, pricing, pursuit operations, proposal, implementation, and subject matter experts to define service delivery models, business processes, staffing approaches, technology-enabled workflows, assumptions, risks, and differentiators.

• Translate strategy and requirements into executive-ready solution narratives, proposal content, implementation concepts, process flows, graphics, and client presentation materials.

• Provide guidance to consultants and analysts and help ensure solution content is feasible, compliant, cost-informed, and aligned to client outcomes.

Minimum Requirements

'- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Program Specific Requirements:

• Leading solution design workstreams for complex pursuits, client engagements, or transformation initiatives.

• Strong facilitation, operating model design, business process design, proposal content development, client presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.

• Ability to align operations, technology, pricing, staffing, implementation, compliance, and client outcome considerations into a coherent solution.

• Government services, health and human services, contact center, eligibility, Medicaid, SNAP, unemployment insurance, appeals/fair hearings, or similar program experience strongly preferred.

This position is fully remote and will require a home office.

Home office requirements:

Reliable high-speed internet service

Minimum 20 Mpbs download speeds/50 Mpbs for shared internet connectivity

Minimum 5 Mpbs upload speeds

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Minimum Salary

$120,000

Maximum Salary

$180,000