Associate Director Consulting
$138,000–$163,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States or Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Oversee consulting engagements by contributing to budgeting, scoping, and designing project roadmaps to ensure deliverables align with timelines and statement of work objectives. Create high-quality project work-products such as slide decks, technical documents, and quantitative models while building credibility with client management-level staff. Develop engagement hypotheses based on client context, identify problem-solving techniques, and leverage knowledge of AI to enhance project effectiveness. Assist in client interviews and workshops, meet utilization and sales targets, and mentor junior associates in project delivery. Manage teams as an engagement manager to ensure timely completion and proactively manage client expectations of engagement scope.
Required Qualifications
- MBA or other advanced degree
- 5+ years of extensive experience in ERP Cloud Consulting within Oracle, Workday, or SAP
- Understanding of finance business capabilities
- Experience within a well-regarded management consultancy in project delivery
- Prior experience in a problem-solving capacity such as a workstream lead
- Experience working with multiple IT or Technology solutions
- Experience working with State and Local Government clients
- Consistent track record of leading people and building high-performing teams that leverage technology and research to drive the mission-critical priorities of state and local government entities
- Ability to inspire and motivate professionals from both technical and non-technical backgrounds towards a common goal
- Unwavering commitment to the success of your team, with willingness to provide constructive/corrective action when needed
- Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and creative development of solutions and strategies to solve client problems
- Ability to adapt Gartner frameworks and methodologies to address clients' most pressing business challenges
- Ability to be hands-on and manage multiple client priorities simultaneously
- Comfortable influencing and building trust-based, value-added relationships with senior executives, both internally and externally
- Coachable and embracing of best practices and feedback as a means of continuous improvement
- Consistently high achiever marked by perseverance, humility, and a positive outlook in the face of challenges
- Relentless focus on delivery excellence and client satisfaction
- Ability to set a high standard of achievement on engagement teams and internal initiatives, helping instill a growth mindset in others
- Experience leading an ERP Cloud workstream
- Successful completion of at least one full life cycle ERP Cloud implementation (Oracle, Workday, or SAP)
Desired Qualifications
- MBA or other advanced degree preferred
- Sales experience is a plus
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