Project Delivery Specialist

Are you looking for a challenging role that motivates and inspires personal growth? Do you want to work on high-performing teams where professionals collaborate effectively to deliver outstanding results?

At our organization, we hire individuals who are not afraid to experiment or take calculated risks. We value people who provide direct and candid feedback to their managers, leaders, and colleagues. We seek individuals who are willing to contribute to the collective success of the team and drive business outcomes through effective collaboration.

Job Summary:

The Consulting Manager plays a critical role in providing strategic support to our global delivery center team members. This person will collaborate with leadership, operations, and resource management to optimize project staffing and ensure engagement success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with consulting operations to identify and assign project resources to client engagements.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders characterized by partnership, cooperation, and trust.
• Manage own projects where required.
• Oversee concurrent client projects while maintaining oversight to identify risk, escalations, and issue resolution.
• Manage and resolve escalations between the project, client, or other internal organizations in a satisfactory manner.
• Oversee resource planning and coordination of project activities between clients and internal/external resources needed to accomplish strategic business goals.
• Mentor staff in Agile methodologies and best practices in project management to enhance project delivery.
• Provide teams with clear understanding of responsibilities, accountabilities, and growth plans by communicating and managing work assignments, training, and performance appraisals.
• Ensure that bench time for consultants is used to improve skills in line with practice technology roadmaps.
• Monitor the alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives.
• Solicit feedback from delivery owners of engagements where GDC team members are aligned.
• Conduct interviews of prospective GDC candidates.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years demonstrated client relationship skills and experience setting and managing client expectations.
• Strong verbal and writing skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively up to executive levels.
• Extensive experience aligning diverse teams across multiple locations to deliver projects in alignment with project commitments.
• Strong sense of working collaboratively with leadership teams.
• Deep, professional knowledge in internal stakeholder management, people management, and software project delivery.
• Ability to lay out sound work plans and resolve competing trade-offs.
• Ability to manage up to 20 people and provide guidance on their career development.
• Ability to remain composed during challenging and critical situations.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile best practices and delivery methodologies.
• Experience working with sales and solutioning stakeholders on staffing and timeline commitments and ensure there is alignment in expectations is a plus.

Benefits:

We offer a dynamic and inclusive work environment where professionals can grow and develop their careers. Our organization values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage applications from qualified individuals who share these values.

Other Information:

Don't meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway if you're excited about this role and believe your skills and experience make you a strong candidate.