Senior Principal Consultant, Digital Consulting (Remote)

Vaco; Fairfield (IA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco is seeking a Principal Consultant to lead as a senior business, governance, and client-delivery leader within its Digital Consulting practice. You will govern multi-workstream, enterprise-scale engagements from presales through go-live and hypercare, interfacing with C-suite and VP-level stakeholders while ensuring successful outcomes and growth opportunities.

This role requires strong executive presence, commercial acumen, and the ability to navigate complex client situations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of consulting experience with ownership of complex, full-lifecycle enterprise application implementations.
• Experience leading external-client engagements from discovery through go-live and hypercare.
• Executive presence and experience with C-suite/VP stakeholders.
• Experience leading executive steering committees and driving decisions in complex environments.
• Accountability for scope, estimates, budgets, and risk.
• Governing multiple workstreams with project/delivery managers.
• PLM/ERP expertise required.
• Manufacturing industry experience strongly preferred; food and beverage manufacturing desirable.
• Ability to travel up to 50% for client engagements.

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.
• 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 rationale behind recommendations.
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks before escalation.

Skills

Executive presence

Client leadership

Delivery governance

Budget management

Risk mitigation

Strategic thinking

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

Oracle Cloud PLM

Oracle ERP/SCM

Oracle Integration Cloud

FBDI/ADFDI

SAP integrations

Oracle EBS-to-Fusion

Job description

Vaco is seeking a Principal Consultant to lead as a senior business, governance, and client-delivery leader within its Digital Consulting practice. You will govern multi-workstream, enterprise-scale engagements from presales through go-live and hypercare, interfacing with C-suite and VP-level stakeholders while ensuring successful outcomes and growth opportunities.

This role requires strong executive presence, commercial acumen, and the ability to navigate complex client situations.