Consulting Manager - job 1 of 4

Excelerate LLC is a boutique consulting firm distinguished by its hands-on, collaborative approach to solving complex business challenges. We partner closely with our clients, bringing deeply experienced consultants who work in a facilitative style to deliver practical, lasting impact. Our work is grounded in four core values: humility, energy, integrity, and flexibility. These principles shape our culture, guide our work, and define the people who thrive here.

As a Consulting Manager, you’ll play a key leadership role in guiding clients through strategic initiatives that drive meaningful business transformation. You’ll lead multi-disciplinary projects from strategy through implementation – bringing structure, insight, and operational excellence to every engagement.

This role offers broad exposure across multiple service areas, including:

• Process & Digital Acceleration

  • Designing and implementing systems and processes that enhance efficiency and enable scalable growth

• Customer-Centric Growth & Organizational Enablement

  • Identifying and prioritizing customer and market opportunities (B2B and B2C) that generate financial impact, while enabling business strategies through human-centered design and organizational enablement.

• Data Connectivity & Intelligence

  • Leveraging data to create competitive advantage through data architecture, integrations, business dashboards, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions

You’ll serve as both a trusted advisor and a hands-on leader – translating strategy into action, building stakeholder alignment, and driving measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex client engagements or workstreams from initiation through delivery, ensuring high-quality execution and measurable outcomes.

• Translate complex or ambiguous business challenges into actionable, insight-driven strategies through data analysis, process mapping, and stakeholder collaboration.

• Lead operational improvement and transformation programs that align people, processes, and technology to achieve sustainable results.

• Develop business cases, KPIs, and performance measurement frameworks to measure impact and sustain performance.

• Facilitate workshops and collaborative sessions to co-create solutions with clients and build organizational alignment.

• Oversee vendor evaluations, digital solution implementations, and systems integrator partnerships.

• Design and deliver change management, training, and organizational development initiatives that drive sustainable adoption and capability building.

• Build and nurture long-term client relationships based on trust, transparency, and consistent value delivery.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of management consulting or equivalent experience in leading strategic or transformation initiatives.

• Proven success delivering measurable results in one or more of the following areas:

  • Process Transformation & Operational Excellence

  • Strategic Program Management

  • Technology Enablement & Digital Transformation

  • People, Culture & Organizational Change Enablement

  • Program Management Office (PMO) Design & Portfolio Management

  • Data Strategy & Intelligent Decision-Making

  • Growth, Innovation & Customer Strategy

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate insights into action.

• Experience managing multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholders simultaneously in dynamic environments.

• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and communication skills, with the confidence to engage senior executives effectively.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, or Tableau to translate data into clear, compelling visual stories.

• Willingness to travel to client sites as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.

Why Excelerate

At Excelerate, we offer more than just a job – we offer the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Our consultants partner with clients to solve critical challenges, driving clarity, action, and lasting results that create a ripple effect of economic vitality and social prosperity. We pride ourselves on a culture rooted in humility, integrity, and flexibility, where collaboration, creativity, and smart problem-solving are celebrated. Employees thrive in an environment where they are treated like adults, empowered to manage their work with flexibility, and supported by leaders who provide candor, transparency, and mentorship. Beyond professional growth and exposure to high-impact projects at leading companies, we provide a competitive total compensation package, flexible time off, robust health benefits, retirement contributions, fitness and technology stipends, and opportunities for continued learning and development. For high-caliber, passionate leaders seeking both growth and purpose, Excelerate is a place where your skills, ideas, and ambition can make a real difference.

Future Opportunity Notice

This posting reflects a potential upcoming opportunity rather than an immediate vacancy. We take a proactive, relationship-first approach to hiring by building connections with talented professionals in advance so we can thoughtfully match you with roles aligned to your experience and interests as opportunities arise.

We also respect our candidates’ time. Our interview process is typically activated when there is a strong likelihood of an opening in the near future, ensuring conversations are timely, relevant, and meaningful.