Transformation Consultant

Our client is a Technology & Digital Transformation consulting firm based in Atlanta, GA, seeking a local Transformation Consultant for a 6–12 month contract role. The consultant will work onsite at the firm's Atlanta office, supporting a large-scale technology transformation program by enhancing cross-workstream effectiveness through structure, governance, and tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with workstream leads across technology transformation initiatives to support planning, tracking, and reporting.
• Design and roll out standardized status reporting templates, RAID logs, and workplans.
• Establish and administer program governance, including steering committee and working group cadences, meeting structures, decision logs, and escalation pathways.
• Consolidate workstream inputs into integrated program-level status reports, dashboards, and executive materials.
• Track milestones, dependencies, and critical path items across workstreams.
• Proactively identify schedule slippage, resource conflicts, and cross-workstream risks.
• Facilitate governance forums, including agenda setting, meeting facilitation, minutes, and action-item follow-up.
• Coach workstream leads on PMO tools, templates, and processes.
• Support change control processes involving scope, schedule, and budget changes.
• Identify opportunities to improve program processes, tools, and reporting efficiency.
• Maintain the program's central repository of plans, reports, decisions, and governance artifacts.
• Ensure consistent reporting quality and governance cadence across the overall transformation program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in project management, PMO, or project enablement roles, ideally within a management consulting or professional services environment.
• Experience supporting or establishing program governance structures, including steering committees, working groups, decision frameworks, and escalation processes.
• Experience designing and standardizing status reporting, RAID logs, and workplan templates across multiple workstreams or teams.
• Working knowledge of technology transformation delivery, including ERP or platform implementations, infrastructure or cloud migrations, or large-scale systems integration programs.
• Proficiency with project and program management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or Asana.
• Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence workstream leads and senior stakeholders without formal authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive- and steering-committee-level materials.
• Bachelor's degree in business, management information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2, CSM/Scrum, or SAFe certification.
• Prior experience in a management consulting or systems integrator environment.
• Experience working on client-facing technology transformation engagements.
• Experience supporting programs using hybrid Agile/Waterfall delivery models.
• Familiarity with change management and organizational readiness practices as they relate to program governance.

Core Competencies

• Structured and detail-oriented, with the judgment to balance process rigor and flexibility.
• Comfortable operating across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Proactive in identifying risks and gaps.
• Client-ready presence with strong communication skills.
• Comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborative and coaching-oriented, enabling workstream leads through structure and governance.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance – Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family.
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits.
• Vision Benefits.
• Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance.
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance.
• 401(k) including match with pre- and post-tax options.
• Paid Sick Time Leave.
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans.
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit.
• 529 College Saver Plan.

Schedule

6–12 month contract, starting immediately. Onsite at the firm's Atlanta office; local candidates preferred.