Lead Management Consultant
Job Location:
Arlington County, VA - USA
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Job Summary
Team Before Self - Put team success ahead of individual recognition. Share knowledge relationships credit and opportunities freely. Ask for help offer it freely and make the people around you better. Make choices that strengthen the team.
Quiet Professional - Lead through sound judgment preparation and performance. Earn credibility through the quality not title résumé or personal visibility.
Humility - Remain curious and teachable regardless of experience. Seek and apply feedback recognize blind spots and missteps and adapt with openness and self-awareness.
Reliability - Consistently earn the trust of clients and teammates. Do what you say you will do. Communicate early surface risks before they become problems and make sure clients and teammates are never surprised.
Stewardship - Take responsibility for leaving the client team and firm stronger than you found them. Build relationships capacity and knowledge that last beyond the engagement.
Deliver the work. Lead complex engagements from kickoff through close with clear outcomes a strong workplan high-quality deliverables and no surprises for the client.
Make sense of the problem. Turn ambiguous questions and incomplete information into a clear problem statement hypotheses analysis decisions and next steps.
Lead the team. Set direction assign clear ownership coach practitioners review the work address performance issues and create the conditions for people to succeed.
Lead the client day to day. Build trusted relationships run effective meetings facilitate difficult conversations manage expectations and know what matters to the client beyond the immediate scope.
Run a healthy engagement. Know the scope schedule staffing burn profitability risks and forecast; address problems early and escalate when needed.
- You get to the heart of a problem quickly challenge assumptions and see connections others miss.
- You can command a room without needing to be the center of it.
- You can work across strategy operations people technology and AI without treating them as separate problems.
- You build relationships beyond the immediate project recognize unmet client needs and know how to turn those needs into follow-on work.
- You leave behind stronger clients stronger teammates stronger systems and not just completed deliverables.
- 5 years of management consulting experience including executive-level client engagement and leadership of teams.
- Proven ability to turn strategy into a practical workplan and move work across functions and levels of an organization.
- Strong systems thinking analytical judgment facilitation executive communication and relationship-building skills.
- Experience leading multiple workstreams and teams while managing scope budget schedule quality and client expectations.
- Ability to work effectively with quantitative and qualitative data to create clear executive-ready deliverables.
- Working proficiency with modern AI tools such as Copilot ChatGPT or Gemini to accelerate analysis workflows prototypes and deliverables.
- Bachelors degree; U.S. citizenship; ability to obtain and maintain up to a Top-Secret security clearance.
- Reside in and be willing to commute regularly within the Washington DC metropolitan area in a hybrid work environment.
- 85% Paid coverage option monthly health insurance premiums for employee and family
- Vision and Dental insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Life/Disability Insurance
- 401K with 50% match
- 15 Days of PTO
- 10 Federal Holidays
- New Parent and Family Leave
- Professional Development Investment
Required Skills:
5 years of management consulting experience including executive-level client engagement and leadership of teams. Proven ability to turn strategy into a practical workplan and move work across functions and levels of an organization. Strong systems thinking analytical judgment facilitation executive communication and relationship-building skills. Experience leading multiple workstreams and teams while managing scope budget schedule quality and client expectations. Ability to work effectively with quantitative and qualitative data to create clear executive-ready deliverables. Working proficiency with modern AI tools such as Copilot ChatGPT or Gemini to accelerate analysis workflows prototypes and deliverables. Bachelors degree; U.S. citizenship; ability to obtain and maintain up to a Top-Secret security clearance. Reside in and be willing to commute regularly within the Washington DC metropolitan area in a hybrid work environment.
Required Education:
Bachelors Degree
