Engagement Lead - Consulting Director, DRPM

ASI Government•Arlington, VA

About The Position

The Engagement Lead (Director) is a senior, accountable leader for a complex Department of War DRPM UxS client engagement. The role independently navigates ambiguous client situations, serves as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, identifies how ASI can best support client needs, and translates strategy into disciplined execution and executive-quality deliverables. The Engagement Lead owns consulting rigor across the integrated workplan, team performance, quality, partner coordination, and account growth. Experience supporting another DRPM program or initiative is highly desired. The position begins as a hands-on individual contributor or lean-team leader. The successful candidate defines the vision and strategy for assigned projects and is also prepared to structure analyses, build and edit PowerPoint and Excel deliverables, lead client meetings, and resolve day-to-day delivery issues. The Engagement Lead partners closely with another ASI Engagement Lead who contributes government experience, client relationships, institutional knowledge, and subject-matter expertise. Travel is throughout the United States and varies with engagement needs: there may be weeks without travel or up to three to four days per week on-site. When on contract, Consulting Directors typically travel to a single location or centralized region rather than visiting new sites weekly. Current potential locations include Fort Meade, Maryland; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fayetteville, North Carolina; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Requirements

At least 10 years of professional experience, including substantial experience in management consulting, strategy consulting, transformation consulting, or a comparable client-services environment.
At least 5 years leading consulting engagements or major workstreams, with direct accountability for senior-client relationships, integrated delivery, team performance, and executive-level outputs.
DoW Secret clearance and ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI (SAP Access).
Demonstrated record of independently navigating complex client environments and becoming a trusted adviser to senior executives.
Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, including personally structuring analyses, building executive-ready storylines, and improving others’ work to a high consulting standard.
Exceptional verbal communication and executive presence; ability to communicate a crisp point of view, facilitate decisions, and adapt in the room.
Strong program management and attention to detail across scope, schedule, quality, resources, risks, decisions, and follow-through.
Experience identifying, shaping, and advancing follow-on work from existing client relationships.
Experience working across organizational boundaries and negotiating roles and work scope with partners, subcontractors, or peer consulting firms.
Bachelor’s degree.
Ability to obtain and maintain the clearance and client-site access required for assigned engagements.
Willingness and ability to travel to client sites three to four days per week.

Nice To Haves

Experience with the Department of War or other federal clients in acquisition, industrial base, logistics, readiness, organizational transformation, workforce, technology, or related mission areas.
Experience in a top-tier strategy or management consulting firm, or a consulting environment with comparable standards for client leadership, analytics, and executive communications.
Experience building a new account, capability, offering, or market area.
Master’s degree or other relevant advanced degree.
Familiarity with AI/ML, RPA, intelligent automation, or digital transformation programs in a federal context.
Experience supporting another DRPM program or initiative.

Responsibilities

Co-lead the engagement with a government mission leader, combining consulting discipline with established client relationships, institutional knowledge, and subject-matter expertise.
Serve as a senior day-to-day interface with client leadership; anticipate needs, understand stakeholder dynamics, and build credibility through sound judgment, responsiveness, and follow-through.
Frame ambiguous problems, develop clear points of view, and provide strategic ideas and practical recommendations aligned with the client mission, operating context, and implementation realities.
Design and lead executive meetings, working sessions, decision forums, and difficult conversations with concise messaging and confident facilitation.
Operate independently in sensitive client situations, escalating selectively and bringing proposed solutions rather than unresolved problems.
Own the engagement from problem definition through implementation, including scope, hypotheses, workplan, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes.
Translate analysis into a clear storyline and personally develop, review, and refine polished PowerPoint presentations, Excel analyses, written products, and executive briefings.
Set and maintain a high quality bar for accuracy, logic, visual presentation, detail, and readiness for senior-client review; ensure deliverables require minimal executive rework.
Manage program execution, including action and decision tracking, risks, meeting cadence, staffing, budget, and timely issue resolution.
Coach contributors through precise direction, rapid feedback, and quality review while remaining accountable for the integrated product.
Define and negotiate work-lane scope, roles, interfaces, and decision rights with prime contractors, subcontractors, and other consulting partners.
Identify where ASI can contribute distinctive value through its AI, acquisition, organizational transformation, implementation, and government-domain expertise.
Manage handoffs and interdependencies so the client experiences one coherent team while retaining visibility into ASI contributions.
Shape follow-on opportunities by translating unmet client needs and adjacent mission priorities into problems, outcomes, approaches, stakeholders, acquisition paths, and next steps.
Build direct, durable ASI relationships across the client organization, expanding the firm’s network beyond the immediate engagement and partner-led channels.
Partner with growth and capture leaders on on-contract growth, proposals, recompetes, account strategies, and reusable offerings.
Manage contract performance, staffing, utilization, budget, burn, margin, subcontractor performance, and reporting using timely, accurate data.
Identify delivery, relationship, financial, and contractual risks early; implement corrective actions and elevate decisions with clear options and recommendations.