As a Director, Strategy & Execution Consulting, you will be a part of a fast-paced environment helping clients solve complex issues and delivering exceptional results. You are both a self-driven management consultant who excels at guiding organizations to accomplish their strategic objectives through effective execution, and a servant leader who believes that delivery excellence is essential and works to elevate the performance of the whole team. You have the proven ability to effectively manage transformation projects of medium to large size (global and non-global), ambiguous and complex structure, with varying technical and business requirements. Our Directors thrive when they can dig in with their sleeves rolled up from day one to understand the internal landscape, build relationships with the client and internal team, and follow through on execution to achieve a desired outcome.

　　As a member of the Pioneer extended leadership team, you will contribute to the company and practice vision, strategy, and priorities. You will have opportunities to grow the business through client delivery, people leadership, practice development, and business development. You will be responsible for a team of consultants’ performance management and career development.

　　Responsibilities include:

　　Ownership of Strategy & Execution Offerings

　　Strategy Formulation: define strategic goals through external and internal research; clarify purpose, vision, and set value targets for strategy

　　Strategy Activation: translate strategy into actionable roadmap with clear target state and achievable milestones, and communicate a compelling story to the organization

　　Strategy Enablement: supporting structure and process design to ensure strategic activities are prioritized and target state value is achieved

　　Process Optimization: analyze current state business processes to design optimized ways of working for individuals, teams, and functions to achieve organizational value

　　Program Leadership: lead strategic programs to execute on strategic goals focused on problem solving beyond scope, schedule, and budget

　　Client Delivery

　　Own a portfolio of projects with full oversight and responsibility for delivery excellence

　　Lead, deliver or jump-start delivery efforts in the assigned practice

　　Build, develop and maintain long-term relationships with clients at the Executive level

　　Engage clients to develop and offer unique, measurable services that meet their needs

　　Assume ownership of projects while simultaneously leading a team

　　Leadership

　　Create a highly capable and high performing team within the Strategy & Execution practice

　　Plan for team growth and participate in recruiting process to fill open roles

　　Manage team members and projects to Pioneer standard operating procedures

　　Lead and develop the career path for 4-8 direct reports and scale their influence

　　Manage key results and ensure each team members meet or exceed expectations

　　Practice Development

　　Contribute to practice action plan to grow sales, create new service offerings to client challenges

　　Provide expertise to deepen and expand the firms’ product offerings and client solutions

　　Act as thought leader for the practice area (i.e. blog posts, articles, speaking at events etc.)

　　Provide ongoing training and coaching to the Strategy & Execution team

　　Develop and maintain Pioneer Strategy & Execution standards and practices

　　Business Development

　　Provide subject matter expertise and collaborate with business development team to drive growth and scope opportunities

　　Contribute to proposal development, proposal requirements and proposal writing as a part of managing our sales process

　　Requirements

　　Qualifications: 

　　5+ years of consulting leadership experience

　　10+ years project/program management with success managing medium to large projects using various methodologies

　　5+ years leading and developing a team of direct reports

　　Experience working with formal process improvement projects (PMI, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Lean process improvement, value improvement etc. )

　　Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with experience in technology implementation or systems integration

　　Proven ability to thrive in ambiguity and manage many responsibilities at one time to effectively partner with clients throughout the project lifecycle

　　Track record of successfully fostering client account growth and development

　　Proven skills in the identification and resolution of client challenges

　　Demonstrated ability to effectively expand professional networks through strategic relationship building and engagement

　　The ability to be a person of influence with executive level teams to drive results.

　　Strong business acumen, can convey complex ideas clearly and concisely for all levels of leadership and professional audiences through verbal, written and facilitation.

　　High level of proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite

　　Passionate about leading with humility, driving hard to do great work, while being connected to the team and things you love outside of work

　　Ability to commute to various clients across the Twin Cities metro area

　　Bachelor's Degree preferred

　　Location:

　　Pioneer Minneapolis Office: 729 Washington Ave N, Suite 600, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (Must be currently local to Minneapolis, MN)