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Engagement Manager – Consulting, Strategy
Location
United States
Posted
64 days ago
Salary
$100K - $120K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Engagement Manager – Consulting, Strategy
4MATIV Technologies
• Serve as day-to-day engagement lead for designated clients, ensuring strong execution, responsiveness, and relationship quality • Facilitate client meetings, focus groups, and working sessions that produce clarity, alignment, and forward movement • Lead development of workplans, engagement pacing, and client-facing project structure • Develop clear memos, presentations, and decision-support materials that translate analysis into actionable recommendations • Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis with self-direction, including operational, financial, policy, and service design analysis • Scope methodologies for analyses and guide analytical work completed by analysts and other team members • Review analyses completed by others to assess logical, technical, or interpretive choices • Interpret findings, identify the core data story, and shape executive-level implications • Translate client challenges into operationally realistic solution designs • Support effective implementation—and business development—by helping clients move from recommendation to action through practical sequencing, operating models, and decision frameworks • Coordinate across consulting and managed services teams when engagements involve both advisory and operational components • Contribute to proposal development, scope design, and expansion opportunities within existing client relationships • Support development of consulting methods, templates, and repeatable internal practices
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in public policy, education, economics, engineering, business, or related field (Master’s preferred)
- Five (5) or more years of relevant experience in consulting, education strategy, operations, analytics, or professional services
- Experience managing projects and leading client-facing workstreams
- Experience conducting and interpreting quantitative analysis in operational or policy settings
- Experience in K–12 education, transportation, logistics, or public sector work preferred
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides
- Basic proficiency in Python; strong proficiency in a coding language
- Proficiency working with data visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau
- Experience structuring analyses across multiple data sources
- Ability to review technical analytical outputs for quality and logic
- Proficiency using AI tools to improve analytical efficiency, written synthesis, and workflow quality
- Experience leading process design and continuous improvement
- Familiarity with route design and optimization concepts
- Experience integrating SIS platforms with other data systems via SFTP/API preferred
- Client leadership: Builds trust quickly and manages client interactions with maturity and clarity.
- Problem solving: Able to move beyond producing analysis to defining the right analytical question and interpreting implications. Diagnoses ambiguous problems and develops practical paths forward.
- Communication: Simplifies complex findings into compelling executive narratives. Exhibits strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to engage diverse stakeholders clearly and professionally.
- Implementation mindset: Designs recommendations that are operationally realistic and actionable. Maintains consistent focus on the overarching purpose of an engagement, ensuring deliverables meet client needs while considering the user experience and perspective.
- Judgment: Balances rigor, speed, and practicality across changing client conditions. Takes initiative, working independently with minimal supervision. Effectively manages and prioritizes multiple tasks.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Vision insurance
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