Lead Management Consultant

Calibrate North; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Calibrate North in the Washington, DC metropolitan area seeks a Management Consultant Lead to own delivery of complex client work across DoW engagements. You will guide teams, ensure quality, manage engagement health, and strengthen client relationships while navigating ambiguity.

Candidates must have 5+ years in management consulting, executive-level engagement, leadership, a Bachelor’s degree, U.S. citizenship, and the ability to obtain Top-Secret clearance; hybrid work and health insurance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of management consulting experience, including executive-level client engagement and leadership of teams.
• Ability to turn strategy into a practical workplan and move work across functions.
• Strong systems thinking, analytical judgment, facilitation, executive communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Experience leading multiple workstreams and teams while managing scope, budget, schedule, quality, and client expectations.
• Ability to work effectively with quantitative and qualitative data to create clear, executive-ready deliverables.
• Working proficiency with modern AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, or Gemini to accelerate analysis, workflows, prototypes, and deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the work. Lead complex engagements from kickoff through close, with clear outcomes, a strong workplan, high-quality deliverables, and no surprises for the client.
• Make sense of the problem. Turn ambiguous questions and incomplete information into a clear problem statement, hypotheses, analysis, decisions, and next steps.
• Lead the team. Set direction, assign clear ownership, coach practitioners, review the work, address performance issues, and create the conditions for people to succeed.
• Lead the client day to day. Build trusted relationships, run effective meetings, facilitate difficult conversations, manage expectations, and know what matters to the client beyond the immediate scope.
• Run a healthy engagement. Know the scope, schedule, staffing, burn, profitability, risks, and forecast; address problems early and scale when needed.

Skills

Management consulting

Executive engagement

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Executive communication

Relationship building

AI tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Copilot

ChatGPT

Gemini

Job description

Arlington, United States

Clearance: All qualified candidates must be able to obtain a minimum of a Top-Secret security clearance.

Overview:

The Management Consultant Lead own the delivery of complex client work. You are accountable for thequality of the work, the health of the engagement, the performance ofthe team, and the strength of the client relationship. You will leadstrategic engagements across Department of War (DoW) missionenvironments, make sense of ambiguous problems, guide teams and seniorclients, manage engagement economics, and turn strong delivery intofollow-on opportunities.

Team Before Self - Put team success ahead of individual reco gnition .Share knowledge, relationships, credit, and opportunities freely. Askfor help, offer it freely, and make the people around you better . Make choices that strengthen the team.

Quiet Professional - Lead through sound judgment, preparation, and performance. Earncredibility through the quality, not title, résumé, or personalvisibility.

Humil ity - Remain curious and teachable regardless of experience. Seek and apply feedback, recogni ze blind spots a nd missteps, and adapt with openness and self-awareness.

Reliability - Consistently earn the trust of clients and teammates. Do what you sayyou will do. Communicate early, surface risks before they becomeproblems, and make sure clients and teammates are never surprised.

Stewardship - Take responsibility for leaving the client, team, and firm strongerthan you found them. Build relationships, capacity, and knowledge thatlast beyond the engagement .

What you will own

Deliver the work .Lead complex engagements from kickoff through close, with clearoutcomes, a strong workplan, high-quality deliverables, and no surprisesfor the client.

Make sense of the problem .Turn ambiguous questions and incomplete information into a clearproblem statement, hypotheses, analysis, decisions, and next steps.

Lead the team. Set direction, assign clear ownership, coach practitioners, review thework, address performance issues, and create the conditions for peopleto succeed.

Lead the client day to day . Build trusted relationships, run effective meetings, facilitate difficult conversations, manage expectations, and know what matters to the client beyond the immediate scope.

Run a healthy engagement. Know the scope, schedule, staffing, burn, profitability, risks, and forecast; address problems early and scale when needed.

What will differentiate you

• You get to the heart of a problem quickly, challenge assumptions, and see connections others miss.
  
• You can command a room without needing to be the center of it.
  
• You can work across strategy, operations, people, technology, and AI without treating them as separate problems.
  
• Youbuild relationships beyond the immediate project, recognize unmetclient needs, and know how to turn those needs into follow-on work.
  
• You leave behind stronger clients, stronger teammates, stronger systems, and not just completed deliverables.
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of management consulting experience, including executive-level client engagement and leadership of teams.
  
• Proven ability to turn strategy into a practical workplan and move work across functions and levels of an organization.
  
• Strong systems thinking, analytical judgment, facilitation, executive communication, and relationship-building skills.
  
• Experience leading multiple workstreams and teams while managing scope, budget, schedule, quality, and client expectations.
  
• Ability to work effectively with quantitative and qualitative data to create clear, executive-ready deliverables.
  
• Working proficiency with modern AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, or Gemini to accelerate analysis, workflows, prototypes, and deliverables.
  
• Bachelor’s degree; U.S. citizenship; ability to obtain and maintain up to a Top-Secret security clearance.
  
• Reside in and be willing to commute regularly within the Washington, DC metropolitan area in a hybrid work environment.
  
• 85% Paid coverage option monthly health insurance premiums for employee and family