Managing Director, Energy & Infrastructure

Pioneer Management Consulting • Minneapolis, MN

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About The Position

The Managing Director (MD) is the senior leader accountable for the performance, growth, and overall health of Pioneer’s Minneapolis business. You are a force multiplier—elevating leaders, strengthening client relationships, driving disciplined growth, and ensuring delivery excellence at scale.
You operate at the intersection of: - Talent & Leadership - Delivery & Client Success - Financial Growth & Pipeline - Market Operations & Performance
As an MD, you lead leaders, run your portfolio like a business, and shape the future of the market while connecting local execution to firmwide strategy and innovation. You see around corners, create clarity in ambiguity, and drive results with pace, precision, and accountability.
This role requires deep experience in the Energy & Infrastructure sector, with particular strength in electric and gas utilities. The Managing Director brings credibility with utility executives, understands regulated operating environments, and translates complex capital, operational, and transformation challenges into practical, executable outcomes.
Core Accountabilities
The Managing Director owns market outcomes across revenue, margin, client satisfaction, team engagement, and leadership depth.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in consulting or professional services, with a strong emphasis on Energy & Infrastructure and regulated utility environments
• Proven success leading complex client portfolios and senior executive relationships
• Demonstrated ability to grow revenue, manage margins, and own P&L outcomes
• Track record of building, scaling, and leading high-performing teams
• Strong executive presence, communication, and influence
• Strategic, entrepreneurial mindset with sound judgment and decisiveness
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-accountability, growth-oriented environment
• Recognized expertise in one or more industry, functional, or solution domains
• Demonstrated experience serving electric and/or gas utilities across strategy, operations, technology, capital programs, or enterprise transformation
• Established executive relationships within the utility and broader Energy & Infrastructure sector
• Proven ability to operate credibly with boards, regulators, and senior utility leadership
• Experience leading consulting teams through complex, capital-intensive, multi-stakeholder environments

Responsibilities

• Lead Talent & Build High-Performing Teams
• Ensure Delivery Excellence & Client Success
• Lead Talent & Build High-Performing Teams
• Run Your Portfolio Like a Business
• Live HHC - At Scale
• Lead Your Own Development

Benefits

• meaningful time off and paid holidays
• parental leave
• 401(k) including employer match
• tuition reimbursement
• a broad range of health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, long and short-term disability, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees