Workplace Consulting Senior Specialist

Summary

Join Blue Cottage of CannonDesign as a Workplace Consulting Sr. Specialist, a client-focused role driving innovative workplace strategy and change solutions. You will build upon a successful consulting practice, identifying and securing strategic opportunities, nurturing client relationships, and collaborating with internal teams. Responsibilities include leading high-performing teams, managing projects, developing service capabilities, and contributing to business development. Success is measured by securing a minimum of $1M in net signed fees annually, contributing to firm growth, and presenting at industry conferences. This role requires a Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred), proven experience in workplace consulting, business development skills, and strong presentation abilities. The firm offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree is required
• Executive presence and demonstrated business acumen
• Proven experience in developing and leading services in workplace consulting, including workplace strategy, technology & digital solutions, space optimization/modeling and change management for workplace solutions, employee engagement and organizational culture
• Business Development experience and proven ability to leverage a wide professional network of individuals that will help communicate our value and grow our brand and revenue
• Extensive experience presenting to clients, industry conferences, and internal leadership
• Commitment to exceptional work in every single interaction, every single day

Responsibilities

• Build upon a robust and successful workplace consulting practice, including identifying & sourcing strategic consulting opportunities that leverage Blue Cottage and CannonDesign services in any market, to innovate and bring value and benefit our clients, in any industry that is interested in developing workplace solutions that anticipate future needs and make positive impacts
• Identify, establish and nurture meaningful, long-term relationships with clients and internal partners through excellence, integrity, and reliability and in a way that grows the consulting practice and elevates the brand, while making measurable, living-centered impact
• Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, the issues they face, and partner with Blue Cottage and CannonDesign leaders to launch and grow our workplace consulting practice. You will wow our clients through fantastic work and continue to differentiate our service offering in the marketplace
• Leverage leading practices and translate research into practice by leveraging insights from organizational psychology, employee engagement, and human performance research into actionable and engaging solutions that further organizational goals
• Develop service capabilities and tools that provide long term recurring value to our practice and our clients, leveraging research and evidence-driven workplace solutions
• Provide oversight and lead high-performing teams from pre-positioning to pursuit to close, across Blue Cottage and/or in partnership with others across CannonDesign
• Serve as a liaison and represent Blue Cottage in planning meetings, leadership meetings, and collaborative efforts. Work to create new methods for collaboration and integration, project tools and processes
• Build on our living-centered design mindset and capabilities as a firm, allowing our approach to problem solving to be deeply embedded in human-centered strategies that reflect operational needs, financial parameters, workforce and cultural impact
• Manage consulting projects, reviewing project performance, team member utilization, tracking project budget, and coaching team members along the way based on project performance metrics and opportunities identified
• Create work plans including project staffing (i.e. aligning the right talent with the right task / activities / opportunity), project approach, fee optimization, and resource requests. Lead and engage in the entire pursuit continuum
• Lead and/or support planning for both small and large-scale projects across various multi-year and multi-phased efforts
• Capitalize upon your existing network and our client base and experience and expand the business potential and profile (brand) of the firm by pre-positioning Blue Cottage for opportunities
• Build and share your subject matter expertise through industry networking, thought leadership, and engagement leadership, balanced with leading and delivering project work
• Provide direction and leadership on pursuits and proposal development, including the scoping of the potential opportunities, team design, approach development, and overarching proposal execution and oversight

Preferred Qualifications

Masters degree or advanced degree preferred

Benefits

• Full benefit package including medical, dental and vision coverage and flexible spending account options and voluntary insurances
• Paid time off
• Flex-time schedules
• Remote work options
• 401k plan
• Employee perk programs
• Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses