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Lead Management Consultant

Job Description - Lead Management Consultant

Title: Lead Management Consultant
Location: Arlington, VA (Hybrid)
Terms: Full-Time/Permanent
Clearance: All qualified candidates must be able to obtain a minimum of a Top-Secret security clearance.  


Overview: 
The Management Consultant Lead own the delivery of complex client work. You are accountable for the
quality of the work, the health of the engagement, the performance of
the team, and the strength of the client relationship. You will lead
strategic engagements across Department of War (DoW) mission
environments, make sense of ambiguous problems, guide teams and senior
clients, manage engagement economics, and turn strong delivery into
follow-on opportunities.
 
 


Experience matters; how you use
it matters more.
 

 

Team Before Self - Put team success ahead of individual recognition.
Share knowledge, relationships, credit, and opportunities freely. Ask
for help, offer it freely, and make the people around you better
Make choices that strengthen the team. 
 

Quiet Professional - Lead through sound judgment, preparation, and performance. Earn
credibility through the quality, not title, résumé, or personal
visibility. 
 

Humility - Remain curious and teachable regardless of experience. Seek and apply feedback, recognize blind spots and missteps, and adapt with openness and self-awareness.  

Reliability - Consistently earn the trust of clients and teammates. Do what you say
you will do. Communicate early, surface risks before they become
problems, and make sure clients and teammates are never surprised.
 

Stewardship - Take responsibility for leaving the client, team, and firm stronger
than you found them. Build relationships, capacity, and knowledge that
last beyond
the engagement.
 


What you will own 

Deliver the work.
Lead complex engagements from kickoff through close, with clear
outcomes, a strong workplan, high-quality deliverables, and no surprises
for the client. 
 

Make sense of the problem.
Turn ambiguous questions and incomplete information into a clear
problem statement, hypotheses, analysis, decisions, and next steps. 
 

Lead the team. Set direction, assign clear ownership, coach practitioners, review the
work, address performance issues, and create the conditions for people
to succeed. 
 

Lead the client day to day. Build trusted relationships, run effective meetings, facilitate difficult conversations, manage expectations, and know what matters to the client beyond the immediate scope.  

Run a healthy engagement. Know the scope, schedule, staffing, burn, profitability, risks, and forecast; address problems early and escalate when needed. 


What will differentiate you 
  • You get to the heart of a problem quickly, challenge assumptions, and see connections others miss.  
  • You can command a room without needing to be the center of it. 
  • You can work across strategy, operations, people, technology, and AI without treating them as separate problems. 
  • You
    build relationships beyond the immediate project, recognize unmet
    client needs, and know how to turn those needs into follow-on work. 
     
  • You leave behind stronger clients, stronger teammates, stronger systems, and not just completed deliverables. 



Requirements


  • 5+ years of management consulting experience, including executive-level client engagement and leadership of teams. 
  • Proven ability to turn strategy into a practical workplan and move work across functions and levels of an organization.  
  • Strong systems thinking, analytical judgment, facilitation, executive communication, and relationship-building skills. 
  • Experience leading multiple workstreams and teams while managing scope, budget, schedule, quality, and client expectations. 
  • Ability to work effectively with quantitative and qualitative data to create clear, executive-ready deliverables. 
  • Working proficiency with modern AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, or Gemini to accelerate analysis, workflows, prototypes, and deliverables. 
  • Bachelor’s degree; U.S. citizenship; ability to obtain and maintain up to a Top-Secret security clearance. 
  • Reside in and be willing to commute regularly within the Washington, DC metropolitan area in a hybrid work environment. 


Benefits

  • 85% Paid coverage option monthly health insurance premiums for employee and family
  • Vision and Dental insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Life/Disability Insurance
  • 401K with 50% match
  • 15 Days of PTO
  • 10 Federal Holidays
  • New Parent and Family Leave
  • Professional Development Investment


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