Engagement Lead - Consulting Director, B1

ASI Government•Oklahoma City, OK

4h•Onsite

About The Position

The Engagement Lead (Director) is a senior, accountable leader for a complex Department of War B1 Bomber client engagement. The role requires independently navigating ambiguous client situations, serving as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, identifying how ASI can support client needs, and translating 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. The role begins as a hands-on individual contributor or lean-team leader. The successful candidate defines project vision and strategy while personally structuring analyses, building and editing PowerPoint and Excel deliverables, running client meetings, and resolving 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. The work supports the Department of War portfolio, which works across the Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, and other organizations on acquisition, industrial-base resilience, emerging technology, workforce, and organizational transformation. Travel is throughout the United States, with travel varying from weeks with none to three or four days per week on site. On contract, Consulting Directors typically travel to one location or a 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 ability to navigate complex client environments independently and become 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, including the ability to communicate a clear 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 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 in 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.

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 judgment, responsiveness, and follow-through.
Frame ambiguous problems, develop clear points of view, and provide strategic ideas and practical recommendations grounded in the client’s mission and operating context.
Design and lead executive meetings, working sessions, decision forums, and difficult conversations.
Operate independently in sensitive client situations, escalating selectively and bringing proposed solutions.
Own the engagement from problem definition through implementation, including scope, hypotheses, workplan, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes.
Translate analysis into a clear storyline and develop, review, and refine PowerPoint presentations, Excel analyses, written products, and executive briefings.
Set and maintain high standards for accuracy, logic, visual presentation, attention to detail, and readiness for senior-client review.
Manage program operations, including action and decision tracking, risks, meeting cadence, staffing, budget, and timely issue resolution.
Coach contributors through direction, 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 AI, acquisition, organizational transformation, implementation, and government-domain expertise.
Manage handoffs and interdependencies so the client experiences a coherent team while retaining visibility into ASI contributions.
Identify and shape follow-on opportunities based on unmet client needs and adjacent mission priorities.
Build durable ASI relationships across the client organization 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 options and recommendations.