Director, Strategy & Execution

Grow with us. Lead with us.

At Pioneer Management Consulting, we believe people are at the heart of every successful transformation. We started Pioneer in 2009 with a simple idea: create jobs people love, serve companies we admire, and fund start-ups that are driving innovative good in the world. Built on our three core values; Humble, Hungry, Connected, we deliver world-class consulting with small-town heart and hustle. We are an elite team of problem solvers who unabashedly love business. 

We partner with clients to solve critical business challenges while fostering environments where individuals and teams can thrive. Team Pioneer brings curiosity, empathy, and expertise to every interaction, ensuring that change is not only implemented but embraced. When you join Pioneer, you become part of a collaborative, supportive community dedicated to making a real difference. We’re a team of moms, dads, coaches, explorers, and creators who do meaningful work together.  

As a Director, Strategy & Execution Consulting, you will be a part of a fast-paced environment helping clients solve complex issues and delivering exceptional results. You are both a self-driven management consultant who excels at guiding organizations to accomplish their strategic objectives through effective execution, and a servant leader who believes that delivery excellence is essential and works to elevate the performance of the whole team. You have the proven ability to effectively manage transformation projects of medium to large size (global and non-global), ambiguous and complex structure, with varying technical and business requirements. Our Directors thrive when they can dig in with their sleeves rolled up from day one to understand the internal landscape, build relationships with the client and internal team, and follow through on execution to achieve a desired outcome.

Responsibilities

Ownership of Strategy & Execution Offerings

• Strategy Formulation:define strategic goals through external and internal research; clarify purpose, vision, and set value targets for strategy
• Strategy Activation:translate strategy into actionable roadmap with clear target state and achievable milestones, and communicate a compelling story to the organization
• Strategy Enablement: supporting structure and process design to ensure strategic activities are prioritized and target state value is achieved
• Process Optimization:analyze current state business processes to design optimized ways of working for individuals, teams, and functions to achieve organizational value
• Program Leadership: lead strategic programs to execute on strategic goals focused on problem solving beyond scope, schedule, and budget

Client Delivery

• Own a portfolio of projects with full oversight and responsibility for delivery excellence
• Lead, deliver or jump-start delivery efforts in the assigned practice

• Build, develop and maintain long-term relationships with clients at the Executive level
• Engage clients to develop and offer unique, measurable services that meet their needs
• Assume ownership of projects while simultaneously leading a team

Leadership

• Create a highly capable and high performing team within the Strategy & Execution practice

• Plan for team growth and participate in recruiting process to fill open roles
• Manage team members and projects to Pioneer standard operating procedures
• Lead and develop the career path for 4-8 direct reports and scale their influence
• Manage key results and ensure each team members meet or exceed expectations

Practice Development

• Contribute to practice action plan to grow sales, create new service offerings to client challenges
• Provide expertise to deepen and expand the firms’ product offerings and client solutions
• Act as thought leader for the practice area (i.e. blog posts, articles, speaking at events etc.)
• Provide ongoing training and coaching to the Strategy & Execution team
• Develop and maintain Pioneer Strategy & Execution standards and practices

Business Development

• Provide subject matter expertise and collaborate with business development team to drive growth and scope opportunities
• Contribute to proposal development, proposal requirements and proposal writing as a part of managing our sales process

Requirements

Requirements

·         5+ years of consulting leadership experience

·         10+ years project/program management with success managing medium to large projects using various methodologies

·         5+