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    Senior Consultant - Chicago, United States - AHEAD

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    AHEAD builds platforms for digital business.

    By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

    AtAHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging,where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

    We are an equal opportunity employer,anddo not discriminatebased onan individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, maritalstatus,or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

    We embraceall candidatesthatwillcontribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas andperspectives atAHEAD.
    Seasoned customer facing consultant with established leadership skills directing a diverse team of advisory and delivery talent. Supports onsite, hands-on client engagement management by running the engagement projects or workstreams.

    Guides day-to-day work efforts for one or more workstreams and coordinates with other workstream leaders to ensure a comprehensive solution.

    Primary troubleshooter for daily project issue and risks.

    They generate proposals with the team, ensuring appropriate solutions to problems, and implement decisions on the way forward by acting as liaisons between the client and the delivery team.

    Focused primarily on successful delivery but utilizes their position to identify client needs and relationships and good will with the client.

    Senior Consultants keep in close contact with clients throughout the duration of the project as part of their official duties.

    Senior Consultants require approval from their management prior to making any significant change to a given program.
    Responsibilities


    Client Delivery:
    Facilitate sections of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
    Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
    Lead technical project teams in the delivery of consulting service offerings
    Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
    Breaks down the problem into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect the problem and decides how to approach the project
    Creation and editing on project deliverables
    Presentation of deliverables to client executive management

    Business Development:
    On occasion, support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings that help qualify opportunities and allow the ideation of a strawman proposal
    On occasion, represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients

    Practice Development & Thought Leadership:
    Participate in the development and enhancement of AHEAD Advisory services offerings, including consulting offerings and deployment services
    Technology thought leader and evangelist
    Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards
    Mentor to team members
    Qualifications

    Minimum ten years of experience as senior information technology leader
    Minimum of three years of executive technology consulting experience
    Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline
    Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    Demonstrated Business Acumen
    Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
    Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities
    Executive presence
    Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent
    MBA is a plus

    Why AHEAD:


    Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

    We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

    We understand that you have a life outside of work. That's why we offer paid time off, paid company holidays, and a great benefits program including maternity/paternity leave and much more

    Please note that although some job posting are indicated as remote, it is solely for the purpose of the posting.

    It is company policy for employees within thirty miles of an office to be in-office at least 2 days per week.

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