Grant Thornton’s Performance Transformation team is looking for a qualified Senior Manager in our California State & Local practice, to drive transformational change engagements across a variety of regional clients. Potential activities include, but are not limited to:

• Organization Strategies - assisting senior executives using organization perspectives and methods to execute business strategies, improve operations and performance, and optimize roles and responsibilities
• Strategic Change - assisting in the implementation of strategy, business initiatives, and organizational and cultural changes for leadership alignment, change leadership, stakeholder and employee engagement, large scale program design, organization performance, and communications
• Talent Strategies - focusing on a comprehensive Talent Management approach defining the Talent Strategy for an organization and implementing Talent Solutions that enable them to acquire, fully deploy and engage their people to achieve strategic business objectives
• Learning Services - designing and implementing programs to increase talent operating models and platforms to maximize the value and return on the development investment, and programs to develop, grow, and maintain knowledge capital

A Senior Manager at Grant Thornton has the opportunity to contribute to the firm's revenue and market growth in a variety of ways, including:

• Business Development - develop and maintain relationships with top decision makers at key clients; organize and lead pursuit teams; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal and pricing strategies
• Client Management - manage day to day interactions with client executives and sponsors
• Engagement Management - lead engagement planning and budgeting; mobilize and manage engagement teams; define deliverable structure and content; facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client; direct on-time, quality delivery of work products; manage engagement economics; manage engagement risk
• People Development – Serve as a coach, providing mentorship and development of team members; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices.

Other responsibilities of a Performance Transformation Senior Manager:

• Oversee the development of frameworks that support improved client future-state organizational design and alignment (Org Design). Experience with recognizing structural issues in an organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies. Experience with visualizing and creating high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture.
• Conduct organizational analysis. Work with organizations to determine long-term goals, identify business opportunities and potential growth areas, implement action plans for organizations to achieve their long-term objectives, and develop strategic performance measures to track progress to reaching the objectives.
• Conduct alternative analysis, including planning scenarios and infusing innovative solutions to existing client processes.
• Apply expertise in business analysis and problem-solving, demonstrate knowledge of the client's businesses, anticipate and identify client issues and concerns, and propose advice, as appropriate.
• Support practice development initiatives, serve as the primary contact with clients in the field, and supervise and review the work of junior personnel.
• Oversee user adoption/training programs for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other types of implementation initiatives
• Develop integrated, targeted and repeatable approaches to manage change leadership and work force transition aspects associated with large scale organization transformation initiatives (Organizational Change Management)
• Select, formulate, or modify processes associated and processes for clients (Lean Six Sigma). Experience with modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques (e.g., Visio or iGrafx).

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience in an industry or consulting team-oriented environment in corporate operations, management and/or human resources-related fields
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading project teams on relevant engagements
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Ability to facilitate work shops (e.g., strategic planning, org design, process improvement)
• Ability to be a team player, work effectively at all levels of an organization, and impact others to move toward consensus
• Knowledge of enterprise systems and business architecture and the varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes, and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• Ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization, including written and oral communications and visualizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
• Eagerness to mentor junior staff
• An advanced degree in the area of specialization
• Experience with supporting State & Local or Defense programs
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience working in a Big 4 consulting firm
• MBA

Primary Location

Work Locations

Sacramento(954) 

770 L Street Suite 950

 Sacramento 95814

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