Strategic Engagement Leader - Workforce & Transformation

ADP, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pre-tax 401(k) options

Flexible spending accounts

Paid time off

Job summary

Lotis Blue Consulting in Chicago seeks an experienced Consulting Engagement Manager to lead client engagements, develop analytical work plans, and deliver high‑impact, data‑driven solutions across strategy execution and workforce design.

You will guide senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops, coach junior staff, and contribute to business development, while ensuring high-quality deliverables and strong client partnerships.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of post-graduate consulting experience in strategy execution, operating model design, or workforce design and development.
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, economics, science, data analytics or other domains that provide a good grounding in logical and critical thinking.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to craft a compelling narrative tailored to meet the needs of different audiences.
• Capable of modeling complex business scenarios in Excel to explore different potential solutions and their implications on business goals.
• Experience serving and presenting to Executive level clients and teams directly.
• Skilled in ideating and performing hypothesis-driven analysis and visualization using BI solutions (e.g., Power BI or Tableau).
• Highly effective problem solver and critical thinker.
• Comfortable with ambiguous and complex challenges and willing to do what it takes to bring meaningful impact to our clients and the organizations we serve.
• Experience coaching and leading a team, providing constructive feedback, and working through others to generate high-impact deliverables.
• Enjoys working in fluid and ambiguous business environments that are complex where the client solution often unfolds in an unpredictable and nonlinear fashion.

Responsibilities

• Manage up to three client engagements in Business Strategy Execution, Operating Model Design, Workforce Configuration and Talent Management.
• Guide the development and execution of analytical work plans to prove or refute hypotheses that support and drive to the strategic goals of each client engagement.
• Lead and facilitate the ideation, diagnosis, and design of high‑impact solutions, leveraging your business acumen and critical thinking applied to different industries.
• Oversee the successful delivery of work across several large‑scale engagements, balancing competing priorities and resource needs while ensuring high quality deliverables for clients.
• Develop general consulting and technical competencies in more junior resources to help build firm capability and capacity.
• Build high impact data visualizations and executive‑level narratives to create compelling storylines that build understanding and align stakeholders around recommendations.
• Lead interactions with senior client stakeholders, present recommendations, facilitate workshops, and engage directly with executive teams to build credibility and partnerships.
• Actively participate in business development, including shaping new opportunities with current and existing clients.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Critical thinking

Client engagement

Education

Undergraduate degree in engineering, economics, science, data analytics or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

VBA

Python

SQL

Job description

Lotis Blue Consulting in Chicago seeks an experienced Consulting Engagement Manager to lead client engagements, develop analytical work plans, and deliver high‑impact, data‑driven solutions across strategy execution and workforce design.

You will guide senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops, coach junior staff, and contribute to business development, while ensuring high-quality deliverables and strong client partnerships.