Engagement Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

The Regis Company is a leadership development consulting firm that not only teaches people what to think, but how to think. The managing directors and teams have years of experience formulating and shaping the next generation leaders. We are assisting our clients to become value workers in a fast-paced global business environment. Our CEO is a leader in bringing neuroscience to the forefront of executive learning, and we need gifted professionals to take point. Are you ready?


Job Description

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead a team of intelligent and innovative minds working with high profile clients? Our Chicago practice is growing and we’re looking for a few special people to play integral part of initiating, developing, maintaining and delivering projects with clients. Leverage your skills in Agile project management, performance consulting, and change management. From start to finish, you are the client’s primary contact for project activity. You lead and work in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment in which your flexibility and drive gets the job done. Your vision and creativity guide the framework for company projects and develop the very best solutions for leadership development.


Your mission: to ensure our simulations are delivered on-time and delight your clients. 

How you’ll spend your day:

  • During the sales process, you interface with our business development team to understand client needs and propose customized solutions. In this stage you will also assist with requirements analysis to fine tune solutions and cost estimates.
  • You build and manage relationships with resources, sourcing both internal and external resources to optimally staff each engagement.
  • You gain a deep understanding of the design architecture and use that understanding to develop the project strategy, staffing requirements, project budgets and timelines.
  • Throughout the project, you gain commitment from your team to complete duties and responsibilities. You guide and facilitate project activities to ensure client goals are met according to identified constraints.
  • You provide leadership throughout the development process and support deployment of key solutions for our clients.
  • You’ll also prepare reports for your leadership, client stakeholders, and the team to make sure everyone is moving in the right direction; identifying risks and mitigation plans.
  • You lead retrospectives and lessons-learned meetings throughout the project lifecycle.
  • You travel to clients’ sites depending on need – some months require up to 25% based on project needs.

Qualifications

What you’ll bring to the table:

  • MS or MBA in a business or education discipline.
  • A minimum of three years of experience in professional business environment (project management, management consulting, software) – preferably with a top-tier professional service firm and a variety of industry exposure.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and thought leadership in adult learning theory a plus
  • Exposure to and interest in simulations or rich multi-media computer-based learning
  • Proven experience working in an Agile project environment where your ability to quickly deliver customer value is the objective – you may also have experience with planning tools including AtTask, MS Project, Rally, VersionOne, etc.
  • Advanced level competency with MS Word and Excel
  • Exceptional personal, written and presentation skills – executive presence – authentic, respectful and kind
  • Innovative, detail-oriented, crisp communicator who is self-confident and willing to tackle unchartered territory
  • A servant leader with a gift for influencing people over whom you have no direct authority  
  • Ability think on your feet and switch priorities swiftly without breaking a sweat
  • Goal oriented – and driven to meet identified project success measures
  • Creative problem solver and logical thinker

 

Our team members enjoy:

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Collaboration with talented team members
  • A brilliant team of people to hang out with every day

Additional Information

Goldstone Partners is helping this wonderfully successful company find talented professionals who want to help develop world class leaders.  Please send your resume to us directly at (success at goldstonepartners.com) Principals only please.  Sponsorships cannot be supported at this time.