Senior Consultant - Advisory

AHEAD; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Consultant to drive client engagement and deliver exceptional consulting services. This role involves leading technical teams, managing client expectations, and fostering strong relationships throughout project durations. You will contribute to business development efforts and enhance advisory services, all while mentoring team members and acting as a technology thought leader. Join a company that values diversity, innovation, and continuous learning, and be part of a culture that empowers individuals to make impactful changes.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays and time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Continuous learning sponsorship

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in IT leadership roles.
• 3+ years of executive technology consulting experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical project teams delivering consulting services.
• Facilitate strategy, roadmap, and design workshops.

Skills

Leadership

Client Engagement

Project Management

Communication

Problem Solving

Business Acumen

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science

MBA

Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

Senior Consultant - Advisory

Seasoned customer-facing consultant with established leadership skills directing a diverse team of advisory and delivery talent. Supports onsite, hands-on client engagement management by running engagement projects or workstreams. Guides day-to-day work efforts for one or more workstreams and coordinates with other workstream leaders to ensure a comprehensive solution. Acts as the primary troubleshooter for daily project issues and risks. Collaborates with the team to generate proposals, ensuring appropriate solutions, and implements decisions on the way forward, acting as a liaison between the client and the delivery team.

Focused primarily on successful delivery, but also identifies client needs and fosters good relationships and goodwill with clients. Senior Consultants maintain close contact with clients throughout the project duration as part of their official duties.

Senior Consultants require management approval prior to making any significant changes to a program.

Responsibilities

1. Client Delivery:
2. Facilitate sections of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
3. Ensure customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
4. Lead technical project teams in delivering consulting services
5. Drive objectives, requirements gathering, project milestones, status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure successful and timely delivery aligned with business objectives
6. Break down problems into manageable segments, identify influencing factors, and determine approaches
7. Create and edit project deliverables
8. Present deliverables to client executive management

1. Business Development:
2. Support business development efforts through client discovery meetings to qualify opportunities and develop proposals
3. Represent service offerings during sales cycles, including scoping, proposal development, and client presentations

1. Practice Development & Thought Leadership:
2. Contribute to the development and enhancement of AHEAD Advisory services, including consulting and deployment offerings
3. Act as a technology thought leader and evangelist
4. Maintain broad knowledge of current and future IT trends, technologies, and standards
5. Mentor team members

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of experience as a senior information technology leader
• Minimum of three years of executive technology consulting experience
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar field
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong business acumen
• Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
• Excellent interpersonal skills, good listening ability, and capacity to connect with diverse personalities
• Executive presence
• Proven experience as a technology change agent
• MBA is a plus

Why AHEAD:

We value diversity and inclusion through initiatives like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, enriching our ideas and perspectives.

We foster growth by equipping our office with top technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, encouraging cross-departmental training, and sponsoring certifications for continuous learning.

USA Employment Benefits include:

- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

- 401(k)

- Paid holidays and time off

- Parental and caregiver leave

- And more! See benefits here for details.

The compensation range reflects the On-Target Earnings (OTE), including base salary and target bonus, which may vary based on experience, qualifications, and location.