Remote Principal Consultant, Digital Delivery Leader

Vaco Recruiter Services; Fairfield (IA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco Recruiter Services seeks a Principal Consultant to lead its Digital Consulting practice as a senior business, governance, and client-delivery leader. The role governs multi-workstream enterprise implementations from presales through go-live and hypercare, partnering with project managers while owning client outcomes.

This high-visibility position requires executive presence, commercial acumen, and the ability to navigate complex client situations, steering executive steering committees and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of consulting experience with ownership of complex, full-lifecycle enterprise application implementations.
• Proven experience leading external-client engagements from discovery through go-live and hypercare.
• Demonstrated executive presence with C-suite and VP-level stakeholders.
• Proven accountability for scope, estimates, budgets, solution direction, risk, quality, and commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own governance and delivery outcomes for large, complex, multi-workstream enterprise implementations.
• Serve as the senior client-facing leader and executive point of contact for major engagements.
• Lead executive steering committees and communicate engagement status, strategic direction, risks, decisions, budget, and outcomes clearly and confidently.
• Partner with project managers and workstream leads, delegating day-to-day execution while retaining accountability for overall scope, budget, quality, risk, and client satisfaction.
• Lead discovery, scope definition, effort estimation, budgeting, solution direction, SOW validation, and commercial alignment.
• Lead presales activities, solution discussions, demonstrations, and client discovery sessions.
• Translate complex business requirements into credible delivery approaches and clearly articulate the rationale behind recommendations.
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks before they require escalation to senior leadership.
• Lead difficult client conversations involving scope changes, timeline risk, budget pressure, quality concerns, and delivery performance.
• Build trusted relationships with C-suite and VP-level stakeholders and drive alignment and timely decision-making.
• Identify appropriate opportunities for account growth and additional consulting services.
• Provide delivery oversight, mentorship, and quality leadership across the consulting practice.
• Contribute to delivery methodology, practice standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Executive presence

Business judgment

Delivery governance

Client relationship management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Graduate degree

Tools

Oracle Cloud PLM

Oracle ERP/SCM

Oracle Integration Cloud

F4PLM

SAP integrations

Oracle EBS-to-Fusion

Job description

Vaco Recruiter Services seeks a Principal Consultant to lead its Digital Consulting practice as a senior business, governance, and client-delivery leader. The role governs multi-workstream enterprise implementations from presales through go-live and hypercare, partnering with project managers while owning client outcomes.

This high-visibility position requires executive presence, commercial acumen, and the ability to navigate complex client situations, steering executive steering committees and