Lead Management Consultant

Calibrate North • Arlington, VA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Management Consultant Lead owns the delivery of complex client work. You are accountable for the quality of the work, the health of the engagement, the performance of the team, and the strength of the client relationship. You will lead strategic engagements across Department of War (DoW) mission environments, make sense of ambiguous problems, guide teams and senior clients, manage engagement economics, and turn strong delivery into follow-on opportunities. The core values of the team are Team Before Self, Quiet Professional, Humility, Reliability, and Stewardship. These values emphasize putting team success first, leading through sound judgment and performance, remaining curious and teachable, consistently earning trust, and taking responsibility for leaving the client, team, and firm stronger.

Requirements

• 5+ years of management consulting experience, including executive-level client engagement and leadership of teams.
• Proven ability to turn strategy into a practical workplan and move work across functions and levels of an organization.
• Strong systems thinking, analytical judgment, facilitation, executive communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Experience leading multiple workstreams and teams while managing scope, budget, schedule, quality, and client expectations.
• Ability to work effectively with quantitative and qualitative data to create clear, executive-ready deliverables.
• Working proficiency with modern AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, or Gemini to accelerate analysis, workflows, prototypes, and deliverables.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain up to a Top-Secret security clearance.
• Reside in and be willing to commute regularly within the Washington, DC metropolitan area in a hybrid work environment.

Nice To Haves

• You get to the heart of a problem quickly, challenge assumptions, and see connections others miss.
• You can command a room without needing to be the center of it.
• You can work across strategy, operations, people, technology, and AI without treating them as separate problems.
• You build relationships beyond the immediate project, recognize unmet client needs, and know how to turn those needs into follow-on work.
• You leave behind stronger clients, stronger teammates, stronger systems, and not just completed deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex engagements from kickoff through close, with clear outcomes, a strong workplan, high-quality deliverables, and no surprises for the client.
• Turn ambiguous questions and incomplete information into a clear problem statement, hypotheses, analysis, decisions, and next steps.
• Set direction, assign clear ownership, coach practitioners, review the work, address performance issues, and create the conditions for people to succeed.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, run effective meetings, facilitate difficult conversations, manage expectations, and understand client needs beyond the immediate scope.
• Manage engagement scope, schedule, staffing, burn, profitability, risks, and forecast; address problems early and escalate when needed.

Benefits

• 85% Paid coverage option monthly health insurance premiums for employee and family
• Vision and Dental insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life/Disability Insurance
• 401K with 50% match
• 15 Days of PTO
• 10 Federal Holidays
• New Parent and Family Leave
• Professional Development Investment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior