DescriptionAs a Project Manager for Business Strategy & Transformation, you will lead multidisciplinary teams of analysts, consultants, and support staff in the day-to-day management of consulting engagements. You'll oversee projects from inception to completion, ensuring successful execution, client satisfaction, and delivery of high-impact solutions on time and within budget. This role is ideal for a strategic leader who thrives in dynamic environments and is passionate about driving change for clients in critical infrastructure and industrial sectors.
What You'll Do Business Development
- Cultivate and grow client relationships through marketing efforts, project interactions, and strategic engagement.
- Identify new sales opportunities with clients and lead aspects of proposal development and submission, including project planning, budgeting, and scheduling.
- Advance new and existing client relationships and interface with clients for proposal and project-related items.
- Lead proposal development, project scoping, budgeting, and scheduling activities.
- Set critical project objectives with clients and lead contract development and negotiations.
Project Execution
- Manage the full lifecycle of project execution including scope, schedule, and budget.
- Ensure quality control of deliverables and analyze/communicate project status, risks, schedule, and costs to stakeholders.
- Lead multi-discipline teams of engineers, consultants, and analysts; plan, organize, and communicate project personnel needs to department management.
- Develop and implement project execution plans based on scope and client needs.
- Lead project safety, quality, progress, and financial audits and assessments as required.
Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor and train less experienced staff on technical and business aspects of projects and the industry; serve as a recognized industry leader in your subject matter.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to less experienced staff.
- Support company initiatives and foster staff development and training.
- Responsible for QA/QC process adherence.
- Responsible for compliance with company and site safety policies.
Technical Responsibilities
- Perform and lead advanced consulting engagements to help guide clients in strategic process improvements, technology advancements, and other strategic initiatives.
- Lead analysis, approval, and implementation of multiple project deliverables.
- Lead training of project teams, coordinate activities of multiple global practices/disciplines, and facilitate efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all policies and standards.
- Other duties as assigned.
Preferred Skills & Experience - Demonstrated experience in client engagement, consulting, or management within management consulting, strategy, or transformation-focused environments.
- Proven success in cultivating client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor.
- Five or more years of consulting experience in the U.S. electric and gas utilities sectors.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary consulting engagements and teams.
- Strong understanding of business strategy, operational improvement, organizational transformation, or change management concepts.
- Proven ability to lead complex client conversations, identify business needs, and translate them into actionable consulting solutions.
- Experience supporting proposal development, scoping, pricing, and pursuit strategy for consulting engagements.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and executive presence skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams, including strategy, technology, engineering, and operations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial acumen.
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, computer science or related field from an accredited program and and 10 years of relevant experience required.
- Knowledge in project management, techniques, and procedures.
- Excellent computer skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong organizational skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
- Experience leading technical aspects of consulting engagements in regards to heavy industrial sectors such as power generation and delivery and oil, gas, and chemical.
- Experience on consulting projects, client operations, or executing program management within the critical infrastructure industry.
- Understanding of general business and financial principles.
- Experience with communicating across business segments to understand project objectives.
This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.
Job Project Management
Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City
Other Locations US-TX-Dallas
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Req ID: 264342
Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-EH #E98 N/A
