Hybrid Manager, Strategy – Transformation

at Armanino

• Job title: Manager, Strategy – Transformation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $118,000 - $150,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, St Louis, United States

About the role

• Strategy & Transformation Manager helping clients improve processes and leverage technology. Collaborating with teams to develop operational and financial strategies for various industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects focused on solving complex business problems, process, and technology problems at our clients.
• Coach and mentor consultants and sr. consultants on projects.
• Design a project plan and be able to adapt to new information or changing client requirements.
• Manage a high quality project ensuring high quality client deliverables, on time projects, overall budget adherence and achievement of high client satisfaction scores.
• Collaborate with internal subject matter experts and client resources as needed to delivery high quality client outcomes.
• Conduct current state process assessments across and apply best practices, industry research, and competitor research to achieve defined business objectives.
• Leverage tools and techniques such as Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to develop process maps that can be leveraged to drive measurable change in a clients business and by implementation teams to generate meaningful business requirements and traceability.
• Use design thinking and other techniques to assist clients in the identification, prioritization, and sequencing of strategic business and technology initiatives and synthesize them into a cohesive roadmap.
• Assess organization structures, service offerings, and inter-company processes to define target state organization and operating models.
• Evaluate current state technology architecture assessment across the enterprise, develop gap assessment, and recommend target state with the help of subject matter experts.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with client stakeholders to generate business cases that are both quantitative and qualitative.
• Facilitate technology evaluation, selection, and design processes on the behalf of clients when appropriate.
• Leverage emerging tools and technologies such as Artificial Intelligence to streamline delivery processes and increase project team productivity.
• Create and deliver executive-level and board-level communications.
• Partner with team and client to build business case and ROI model for completion of recommendations.
• Build great client relationships that result in high customer satisfaction and additional project or recurring work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, related major or equivalent work experience; Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Consulting, Operations, Marketing, Finance, Accounting, or Software Development, with proven experience in process design, design thinking, IT strategy, and/or Human Capital Strategy.
• Hands-on business analysis skills including project vision, requirements documentation, process design, quality assurance, and rollouts; experienced in designing and documenting business processes and process maps.
• Solid understanding of enterprise software, cloud-based technologies, integrations, data strategy, technology architecture, cloud platforms, operating models, and governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex business challenges and develop effective solutions using frameworks such as systems thinking, SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, Root Cause Analysis, Design Thinking, and Lean Six Sigma.
• Strong project management capabilities, including managing multiple complex projects concurrently, setting goals, developing timelines, managing resources, and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Skilled in applying design thinking methodologies (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to real-world client challenges.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly organize information and deliver messages that drive decision-making at executive and board levels.
• Industry experience in one or more of Armanino’s strategic industries: technology, not-for-profit, healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, or distribution.
• Strong client relationship skills, with a proven ability to quickly build trust, deliver high satisfaction, generate follow-on work, and support complex sales cycles including discovery, scoping, pricing, and proposal development.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time
• Flexible work arrangements
• 401K with Profit Sharing
• Wellness program
• Generous parental leave
• 11 paid holidays