Engagement Manager

About the role

FMI’s Strategy Practice focuses on strategic planning, business development, and go-to-market strategy development. We provide industry-best market research that delivers relevant market intelligence to help our clients find growth opportunities, gain insights, and understand the trends that are shaping and influencing our industry. This is a full-time opportunity that requires a significant travel commitment and will be based out of our Houston, Texas office.

Responsibilities

• Consulting and interacting with people at all levels across a client organization, including senior-level executives
• Working on engagements with multiple clients simultaneously
• Actively participating in all phases of the project lifecycle and working closely with a variety of internal and external business partners to ensure that all business requirements are met
• Performing in-depth assessments to investigate, uncover and understand business issues and processes, and delivering written and/or oral presentations of findings
• Performing primary and secondary market research, including data gathering and analysis, and industry stakeholder interviews
• Synthesizing research findings into visually compelling reports
• Ensuring superior customer service through follow-up, client responsiveness and customer-focused communication
• Preparing articles for industry publications and supporting thought leadership activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or building construction is a plus; MBA or an equivalent master's degree from an accredited top-tier college or university is preferred
• Minimum of three years of professional services experience and strong consultative skills
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills, including the ability to gain and retain the attention and involvement of sophisticated, challenging audiences
• Proven leadership skills and the ability to exercise sound independent judgment
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Demonstrated maturity, integrity and the ability to work in an ambiguous entrepreneurial environment, both individually and as a team player

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability coverage
• Strong 401(k) plan
• PTO
• Parental leave