Director Strategy & Operations Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Hackett Group is a leading firm focused on delivering independent, strategic advice and operational results to Fortune 500 business clients. Our team is a blend of experienced consultants and industry leaders with extensive knowledge of the consumer packaged goods, life sciences, manufacturing, and service industries.

The Hackett Group professionals within the Strategy & Operations Practice focus on assisting the c-suite and executive management of regional, national and global clients with business transformations and growth initiatives. Specific areas of interest include: business strategy, supply chain improvement, strategic sourcing, procurement, strategic planning and execution, collaborative commerce, customer and product excellence, pricing strategy, marketing and sales force effectiveness, business process design, organizational restructuring, transformation, and effectiveness, business/financial management, cost reduction, and IT strategy/effectiveness.

Directors are primarily responsible for overseeing projects and developing business. They apply well-honed consulting, project management and functional skills in the management of major projects. Further, Directors are involved in business development such as project diagnostics, proposal development and sales calls. Director's responsibilities include:

• Generating business
• Managing multiple engagement teams
• Identifying and resolving issues critical to the clients' strategic and operational success
• Providing technical/functional content
• Presenting conclusions and recommendations to senior client management
• Providing solution implementation assistance as required
• Developing leading industry insight to present to clients
• Managing client relationships
• Leading, coaching, developing and supervising the efforts of junior staff
• Active involvement in the development of The Hackett Group's functional/industry practices
• Active involvement in Firm building activities including recruiting, training, performance management, etc.

In addition to industry and service area expertise, the candidate must:

• Possess thorough and hands-on knowledge of sales and marketing issues within these sectors.
• Have at least 10 years experience managing client relations, engagements and business development for major consulting firms.
• Hold prior senior position within top tier consulting firm with responsibilities for consulting sales and delivery experience.
• Have a track record of building successful relationships with senior executives within these practice areas and delivering successful consulting engagements. Must have ability to generate add-on sales with existing clients.
• Be able to design and direct engagements to successful completion while meeting agreed upon time frames and work specifications.
• Have a demonstrated record of achieving or exceeding revenue and expense targets over a period of years.
• Work collaboratively with other Principals and staff members in a team environment to develop new business opportunities, successful completion of engagements, recruitment of high potential candidates and further the goals of The Hackett Group.
• Have experience speaking at large industry conference and published professional articles or other publications.
• Hold a strong educational background, with an MBA degree strongly preferred.
• Have strong leadership skills with the ability to develop and promote staff members.
• Have superior project management skills to ensure the effective management and coordination of multiple engagements.
• Possess excellent written and presentation skills.
• Possess strong negotiating skills.
• Be able attract and retain junior staff.
• In addition to the qualifications listed above, the firm places high emphasis on relevant personal qualities: entrepreneurial, creative, imaginative, resourceful, independent, motivated, professional and collaborative.

The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) is an intellectual property-based strategic consultancy and leading enterprise benchmarking firm to global companies, offering digital transformation including implementation of leading enterprise cloud applications, workflow automation and analytics that enable digital world class performance.

Hackett's Strategy & Business Transformation (S&BT) practice specializes in helping clients to improve the performance of their operations to enable growth and effectiveness and achieve meaningful cost efficiencies. As part of Business Transformation, Hackett professionals provide dedicated expertise in business strategy, operations, finance and shared services, human capital management, strategic sourcing, procurement and information technology. Our approach provides full lifecycle service from strategy definition through design and implementation and, finally, continuous improvement. All of Hackett's programs have digital solutions embedded to accelerate and fuse our clients' business and technology transformations.

• Job Identification 734
• Locations United States Chicago, IL, United States