Practice Director of Organizational Effectiveness
Seattle, WA - USA
Job Summary
The Practice Director is a pivotal member of our leadership team responsible for providing strategicdirection driving profitable growth ensuring delivery excellence and cultivating an environmentwhere consultants thrive. This role combines the responsibilities of both the Practice Director andSolutions Director focusing on optimizing profitability building great teams and ensuring clientand consultant success. The Practice Director reports directly to a Managing Director and takesguidance on account growth and delivery activities from a General Manager for the primary
Account and Practice Growth
- Support and contribute to account growth strategies by identifying targetclients business needs and opportunities that align with Unifys capabilities.
- Develop solution sales strategies and targets with account General Managersand drive activity to achieve those targets.
- Participate directly in client conversations proposal content and sales collateral to help sell consulting services.
- Develop and curate solutions offering content that helps advance solution salesgrowth companywide.
Practice Strategy
- Build and apply knowledge of the market and trends impacting our clientsbusinesses to provide value and grow Unifys business.
- Develop strategies for supplying talent for consulting opportunities and deliverywith input from Solution Managing Directors.
- Define and up-level the practices capabilities innovating and elevating thefirms consulting and solution delivery and implement a consultant talent development roadmap and foster ahigh-performing and diverse practice leadership team.
Consultant Success
- Lead a Community of Practice that encourages consultant engagement anddevelopment through learning skill enhancement and collaborative activities.
- Provide guidance and leadership to Practice Managers on Community ofPractice-building and consultant engagement activities.
- Define and implement strategies to improve consultant performanceengagement career development success and retention.
- Coach and mentor consultants in expertise related to the Practices capabilitieand consulting excellence.
Practice Operations
- Proactively communicate the practices consultants availability for projectsthrough supply/demand alignment.
- Support consultant to engagement matchmaking activities to ensure profitabletalent alignment occurs across the practice.
- Support practice-wide engagement renewals extensions and expansion efforts.
- Set Talent Acquisition priorities and inspire recruits to join the practice.
Community of Practice
- Lead and grow a community of practice that engages consultants with Unify andenhances consultant skillsets in practice capabilities.
- Assess consultant development needs and create and implement a roadmap oftraining requirements and continuous learning.
- Foster a culture of diversity inclusion curiosity quality and radical accountability.
- Support cultivating practice stories case studies credentials and communicationsas collateral for use with clients.
Engagement Leadership & Delivery Excellence
- Apply subject matter expertise as a client advisor and consulting leader forengagements across our core capabilities.
- Lead from the front through excellent delivery as a billable leader (100% utilized)with a combination of both delivery and delivery lead responsibilities.
- Engage in account meetings and strategy sessions to share intel among leadersand consultants for account growth and expansion.
- As you explore and create new solution opportunities look for every opportunityto level up our current strategic individual consulting work and create valueadded solutions out of the work we are doing today.
- Lead the end-to-end sale and delivery of a portfolio of consulting engagementsincluding project approach scope schedule risk and issue mitigation and statuscommunication utilizing Unify s Project Delivery Framework as needed.
- Ensure each team member contributes to the teams success by creating high quality deliverables and meeting established milestones. Provide quality assurance of deliverables and coaching/mentoring as needed. Create a positive team enviornment where each member is heard respected and valued.
environment where each member is heard respected and value
Share delivery feedback with consultants and their Account Leadership to helpensure seamless transitions as consultants onboard or offboard from the team.
Contribute to delivery best practices templates customer reference stories andinternal knowledge sharing training and education.
Apply subject matter expertise as a client advisor and consulting leader sponsor (asappropriate) for engagements across our core capabilities.
Lead from the front through excellent client delivery as a billable leader (100% utilized)
Prioritize account meetings and strategy sessions to share intel among leaders andconsultants for account growth and expansion.
Explore and create new solution opportunities look for every opportunity to level upour current SIC work and create value added solutions out of the work we are doingtoday.
- Ability to lead partner and work effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment despite ambiguity and no formal authority.
- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in the relevant practice area.
- Experienced in polished business writing and presentation skills.
- Excellent listening skills and ability to communicate effectively with executives anddiverse audiences.
- Ability to conduct business with transparency and integrity.
- Business acumen and understanding of industries domains and use cases to informand direct the practice-specific work.
- Proven track record of delivering managing and growing consulting services orrelated business unit/function.
- Must have excellent client-facing skills including communication presentation andrelationship management capabilities.
- Proven people leader with experience managing and mentoring a team to reach its full potential.
- 10 years of experience in management consulting with a focus on providing businessvalue.
- 10 years leading concurrent projects and managing senior client relationships.
- Bachelors degree (preferred).
Required Experience:
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