Senior Managing Consultant

The Virtus Solution • Atlanta, GA

3h

About The Position

The Virtus Solution is seeking an experienced Senior Managing Consultant to provide strategic leadership for large, complex enterprise transformation initiatives, particularly ERP upgrades and technology-enabled business transformation. The consultant will advise senior executives and key stakeholders while leading program governance, delivery coordination, risk management, executive communications, and cross-functional alignment. The role bridges business and technology by translating technical activities into business impacts, value drivers, and organizational outcomes.

The consultant will work with client executives, business leaders, technology teams, and delivery organizations to keep complex transformation programs aligned, coordinated, and positioned for successful execution. Virtus describes its consultants as intellectually curious, analytical, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to execute in a fast-paced startup environment. The role may involve travel. The preferred location is Atlanta, Georgia, and candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer directly.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience leading strategic programs and projects in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Significant experience with ERP upgrade programs, ERP transformations, or other large-scale enterprise technology implementations.
• Strong experience establishing and managing program governance and delivery frameworks.
• Experience facilitating and supporting Executive Steering Committees (ESC) and Operational Steering Committees (OSC).
• Proven ability to manage complex critical paths, integrated milestones, dependencies, and cross-functional impacts.
• Extensive experience engaging executive, business, technology, and delivery stakeholders.
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership.
• Experience developing executive-level status reports, leadership communications, decision-support materials, and presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex risks, issues, escalations, and competing priorities.
• Experience with business continuity planning, deployment readiness, operational readiness, and risk mitigation.
• Ability to translate complex technical activities into understandable business impacts, strategic value, and capability outcomes.
• Strong consulting, problem-solving, analytical, and strategic thinking skills.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative consulting environment.
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer directly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a management or technology consulting environment.
• Experience supporting Fortune 100 or other large enterprise clients.
• Experience with major ERP platforms and enterprise technology ecosystems.
• Program or project management certifications such as PMP, PgMP, Agile, SAFe, or similar credentials.
• Experience leading multi-year, multi-workstream transformation programs.
• Experience managing geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic program and project leadership for large, complex enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Lead ERP upgrade and transformation programs, including delivery governance, program coordination, and executive oversight.
• Develop and manage integrated program plans, critical paths, milestones, dependencies, and cross-team impacts.
• Identify and proactively manage program risks, issues, dependencies, and escalation paths.
• Establish and facilitate program governance structures, including Executive Steering Committee (ESC) and Operational Steering Committee (OSC) meetings.
• Prepare executive-level communications, program status reports, decision materials, and presentations for senior leadership.
• Provide decision support to executive stakeholders by communicating program progress, risks, issues, and critical decisions.
• Build relationships with executive, business, technology, and delivery stakeholders across the organization.
• Engage senior executives and leaders to drive alignment, accountability, and timely decision-making.
• Lead cross-functional teams and coordinate activities across business, technology, program management, and operational workstreams.
• Manage critical dependencies and assess downstream impacts across interconnected projects and workstreams.
• Drive deployment readiness, business continuity planning, operational readiness, and risk mitigation activities.
• Translate technical upgrade activities and decisions into business impacts, capability outcomes, and value drivers.
• Support organizational readiness by helping stakeholders understand the effects of technology and transformation activities on business operations.
• Develop and maintain escalation processes so critical issues are addressed at the appropriate level.
• Identify opportunities to improve program delivery, governance, stakeholder engagement, and transformation outcomes.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client leadership while representing Virtus with professionalism, integrity, and exceptional client service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed