Managing Consultant

Summary

Join Twelve Consulting Group as a Managing Consultant and lead a delivery team, driving project success and client expansion. You will manage engagement, ensure value realization, and mitigate risks across projects. Responsibilities include resource allocation, fostering team growth, and contributing to internal strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership skills, EPM expertise (Anaplan, Pigment), and a proven track record of client relationship management and team development. This role requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 3+ years in a strategic management consulting role. Twelve offers a competitive benefits package, including flexible PTO, quarterly bonuses, comprehensive health insurance, and remote work flexibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years in an EPM or similar strategic management consulting role
• Delivery experience in Anaplan, Pigment or similar EPM technology
• Experience building, developing, and leading teams in high-pressure environments
• Demonstrated expertise in growing junior resources, finding the balance between leading/mentoring and allowing proper delegation of critical tasks to drive more accountability and leadership opportunities
• Evolving expertise in Twelve’s specialized industries, core Anaplan and Pigment domains
• Experience scoping, including assessment of high-level requirements and translation to recommended resourcing mix and hours/budget, and proposing back to client
• Excellent Engagement Management skills at existing customers, showing collaboration across multiple workstreams to ensure projects are hitting key deadlines and closely tracking to resource needs and budget requirements
• Proven experience growing client relationships that foster successful implementations, adoption and expands. Able to gain trust at various level within an organization, including executives, IT and project stakeholders
• Experience building strong working relationships customer success teams at technology vendors (Anaplan, Pigment or similar EPM technology)

Responsibilities

• Delivery Success
• Engagement Management: The EM on the team thinks through the ‘big picture’ on the project and still remains close enough to the content, which is something that makes each project unique and challenging. This role ensures that the Customer Executive Sponsor’s Strategic Vision is translated into the solution delivered by our Consulting Teams
• Ensure value realization of projects via scope management
• Partner with client sponsor to invest the right client resourcing and change management to drive adoption, scale and license utilization
• Lead project teams to delivery excellence and project success; ensure project methodology is utilized, manage timeline, resourcing and budget
• Attend project milestones which may include project kickoffs, sprint reviews, and project success meetings to provide executive oversight to project teams
• Manage & mitigate risk; act as escalation point for project needs
• Ensure a one-team approach between the Twelve staffed team, technology sales/CS teams, and any third-party partnerships
• Capacity and Resourcing
• Partner with the Growth team to align supply and demand of resource capacity and services opportunities
• Staff your project portfolio prioritizing individual development and staffing optimization
• Timely communication of resourcing to team members; ensure connections are established that drive sufficient knowledge transfer
• Leader of ongoing project resourcing discussions. Manage the transition from active implementation to any ongoing support and enhancement work
• Support the Growth to Delivery project handover process
• Account Expansion
• Surface expansion opportunities through regular engagement, discovery conversations, and alignment with the client’s evolving business strategy
• Partner with clients to define and maintain strategic roadmaps that outline future use cases, platform capabilities, and business priorities
• Collaborate with technical delivery leaders to define scope, level of effort, and resource needs for expansion use cases, enhancements and optimization work
• Own the creation of clear, client-ready proposals, SOWs and change orders that articulate value, scope and approach for expansion work (in partnership with Growth where applicable)
• Support pricing strategies and commercial negotiations in alignment with Growth and Delivery leadership
• Lead, Develop, and Grow Delivery team
• Recruitment
• Collaborate with the Delivery Team and HR Support on recruiting and hiring, prioritizing technical and consulting aptitude, culture and DEI in Twelve’s growth
• Responsible for conducting behavioral and technical interviews
• Partner with Enablement Lead to onboard and develop new delivery team members to keep pace with resource demand
• People Development
• Coach individuals to meet and exceed their role competencies. Advocate for individuals’ growth including promotions and merit adjustments
• Conduct regular 1:1 development conversations (monthly, quarterly, etc.)
• Develop and execute on personal development plans, addressing strengths and growth areas of team members
• Manage individual and team utilization to target through intentional staffing and solutioning
• Focus on employee engagement and team camaraderie, utilize allotted budget for team events and professional growth opportunities
• Internal Strategy
• Through Engagement Management, identify opportunity for Twelve Methodology and IP to be enhanced and vocalize these as priorities in our strategic planning
• Leader of internal initiatives that map to Twelve’s strategic plan
• Individual contributor, team lead, and owner of key initiatives to ensure Twelve is growing and evolving
• Responsible for defining success metrics for potentially ambiguous goals and mapping critical-path activities to drive towards completion
• Work across disparate groups internally to coordinate activities towards the achievement of a common goal
• Harness team insight into and understanding of strategic direction, advocate for delivery team involvement where there are synergies and interest

Benefits

• Flexible PTO and 7 Company-paid holidays so you can take time away from work to relax and disconnect
• Quarterly incentive bonus opportunities
• Competitive health insurance, 100% paid standard life insurance and short-term and long-term disability
• 401(k) with Company contribution
• Employees receive a laptop, and we utilize collaborative technology such as Slack and Zoom to help you work effectively with clients and team members
• Remote work flexibility
• Newly renovated and collaborative office at our HQ in Minneapolis and trendy co-working space in Chicago
• Dog-friendly work environment (Minneapolis)
• Continued professional growth opportunities
• A variety of culture engagement activities offered in order to support our employees living out our Core Values of Collaboration, Excellence, Personal Growth and Well-Being
• Volunteer opportunities to help support the communities in which we live and work
• Continued investment in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives including employee training and employee-run DEI Committee
• A high-performing workplace full of some of the best and brightest in the business