Consulting Engagement Lead Defense

About the role

The Consulting Engagement Lead will be responsible for overseeing project planning, resource management, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex solutions. They will also provide strategic insights that contribute to business development initiatives, expand client relationships, and identify new opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic insights that will contribute to business development initiatives
• Expand client relationships and identify new opportunities
• Manage project financials, budgeting, and forecasting to ensure high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact
• Ensure the successful delivery of complex solutions through effective project planning and stakeholder engagement
• Translate strategy to execution and own execution across seniority levels within a client space
• Identify and frame problems across all consulting disciplines: strategy, operations, human capital, security and resilience, technology and innovation readiness

Requirements

• 5+ years of management consulting experience, including executive-level client engagement and leadership of high-performing teams
• Competent in AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini) and able to use AI to accelerate analysis, workflows, prototypes, and deliverables
• Must reside in or be willing to commute regularly within the Washington, DC metropolitan area; hybrid work environment anticipated, to include on-site and virtual locations
• U.S. citizenship (the nature of our work with the federal government limits our hiring to U.S. citizens)
• Able to obtain and maintain up to a top-secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of the Defense Industrial Base, actors, issues, and leading commercial perspective to drive a unique point of view
• Strategic thinker with strong systems thinking and first principles of reasoning
• Able to translate strategy to execution and own execution
• Strong acumen in scanning the broader organization, connecting dots across stakeholders, and identifying opportunities the client may not see

Skills

• Strong PPT and Excel skills
• Skilled in Microsoft Power Platform (e.g., PowerBI, Power Automate, SharePoint)

Benefits

We offer a flexible, agile, and employee-driven workplace, a fundamentally collaborative team, a community of lifelong learners, an environment that is unconditionally inclusive, competitive compensation, and outstanding benefits.

Pay

$133,444 per year

Schedule

Hybrid work environment anticipated, to include on-site and virtual locations.