Do you enjoy collaborating with clients to define and implement solutions related to corporate strategy, organizational change, and project and portfolio performance based on an understanding of their challenges and business needs? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for Managing Consultants to lead organizational change and business transformation initiatives.
Ideal candidates have experience in conducting organization-wide Agile adoption, a history of working on one or more Agile teams, project and program management experience, formal business case development expertise, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Responsibilities
Engagement procurement and expansion:
- Participate in new business development activity with the SolutionsIQ sales team
- Develop client proposals and SOWs in conjunction with SolutionsIQ business stakeholders and service providers
- Actively seek and secure engagement expansion and extension opportunities
- Monitor and manage client expectations and customer satisfaction
Engagement delivery:
- Act as the engagement manager responsible for SOWs and contractual commitments
- Conduct client needs assessments
- Work with client executives to define and manage programs associated with Agile and Lean organization change, process improvement, and project and portfolio enhancement
- Work collaboratively with other SolutionsIQ team members to design and enhance SolutionsIQ service offerings
Key responsibilities may also include:
- Identify, build, and fulfill successful client solutions, working collaboratively across SolutionsIQ's service line and operating groups
- Manage all day-to-day aspects of each client engagement
- Help identify and develop client relationships and new business opportunities
- Manage engagements of various sizes (sometimes concurrently), with responsibility for financial performance and customer satisfaction
- Deliver insightful analysis and candid recommendations under ambiguous and politically challenging circumstances. Present analysis and recommendations to clients, from day-to-day contacts up to C-level management
- Oversee relationships with third-party vendors and agencies
- Contribute to practice development by participating in improvement initiatives and augmenting intellectual capital
- Train/mentor other consultants
Qualifications
- Ability to travel domestically up to 50%, with occasional international travel.
- Demonstrated interest in and basic familiarity with Agile and/or lean principles and practices
- Minimum 5 years as a consultant, including leading multi-party, multi-month engagements
- Minimum 5 years of working with organizational change, project portfolio management, business process improvement or large program design and management
- Bachelor’s degree
Desired Experience
- Experience in conducting organization-wide Agile adoption
- History of working on one or more Agile teams
- Project and program management expertise
- Experience conducting gap analyses
- Formal business case development expertise
- Master’s degree in Business Administration
- Deep domain knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
- Organizational change management
- Business process improvement
- Project portfolio management
- Program definition and management
Professional Skills Requirements:
- Ability to build, manage, and foster a team-oriented environment
- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a complex and challenging client environment
- Ability to perform and thrive in a collaborative environment.
- Excellent leadership and management skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage the expectations and interests of diverse stakeholder interests
- Demonstrated executive presence, with the aptitude to compellingly articulate value propositions, credentials, and best practices
- Demonstrated focus on business value and ROI
As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?
When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.
Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company — “we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.
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