Kenway Consulting
Senior Consultant
Kenway Consulting - Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
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Senior Consultant
Department:
Client Delivery
Employment Type:
Full Time
Location:
Chicago
Description
About This Position
We are looking for consultative, client-facing professionals seeking to grow their career in a variety of clients and industries, expand their network, and have the freedom to determine their own career path. As a Senior Consultant at Kenway, you will get the opportunity to apply your unique experience to the latest business and technical challenges that clients are facing. From day one, you'll help design, construct, and implement strategic solutions that help drive growth for our clients, for our company and for yourself.
Core Traits We Are SeekingEntrepreneurship: Passion to fuel growth by helping clients, peers, the organization and yourself with a continuous desire to learn.Tenacity: Ability to drive through ambiguity.Executive Presence: Clear, concise, and articulate when using written and verbal channels.Communication: Adept at communicating quickly and effectively whether the message is good or bad.Aptitude: You climb steep learning curves quickly.Integrity: Comfortable doing what is right for the project even when doing so may not be the most favorable path forward.Growth Mindset: Proactively develop core skills independently and with the help of others.
ResponsibilitiesWork across multiple industries, business areas, and business applicationsClimb steep learning curves to become expert in clients' businesses and technologiesApply industry, business and technical knowledge to achieve project expectations and project team objectivesWork within IT organizations with exposure to the full system implementation lifecycleUnderstand and deliver on a variety of project management or system development methodologiesCreate high caliber deliverables with minimal oversight based on a set of objectivesLead team members and scope across program workstreams or smaller projectsLead requirements identification and prioritization efforts for large scale business or technology programs or projectsParticipate in system design and functional specification developmentDevelop polished written communications that tell a cohesive story of findings, key messages, and future visionPropose creative ideas/solutions for how to meet and exceed objectives with Kenway clientsCreate and present professional, engaging deliverables in a client settingDevelop a proficiency in one or more Kenway serviceIdentify how tasks and dependencies will impact project drivers, such as timeline, budget, and scopeBuild and maintain professional and personal relationships while proactively growing your networkSupport business development activities at both existing and prospective clients of Kenway inclusive of the development and delivery of proposals and statements of workContribute to and lead passion projects that drive the overall growth and development of Kenway as a company
Qualifications, Skills and Credentials
Basic QualificationsPreferred Bachelor's degree with technical or business focus but other degrees will be considered with applicable experience2 to 6 years experience in client-facing/consultative roles2 to 6 years experience in one of Kenway's core capabilities areas: Technology Solution Delivery, Enterprise Program Leadership, Information Insight
Preferred Skills and CredentialsExperience with Project Management or system development methodologies (Agile, SDLC, etc.)Experience in business analysis, process improvement, or technical initiativesRelevant financial services, healthcare, distribution, or telecommunications industry experience
Experience is not needed across everything as Kenway is able to offer training, help and guidance to build additional skills.
What Our Company Looks Like
Kenway Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm whose entire reason for existence is to help companies and their employees. Founded in 2004 on the principles of being good and being truthful, Kenway's set of Guiding Principles steer each employee's decision-making process and center on integrity, quality, value and respect. The company focuses on the means and not the outcomes, always in line with these Guiding Principles, and always with integrity as its cornerstone. Kenway strives to provide all clients with unmatched quality and service, and specializes in the areas of Technology Solution Delivery, Enterprise Program Leadership, and Information Insight.
You will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with our world-class clients. Our projects tend to focus primarily on enterprise solutions, straddling our clients' technology and business organizations. Most of these engagements require a diverse combination of skills and experience.
At Kenway, we address our clients' needs by identifying the services and solutions that are required to solve their business challenges. We then provide the appropriate mix of resources to build the optimal project team for each engagement. This approach not only allows us to take on projects ranging in size and complexity, but it also allows us to adjust capacity and skill sets as the project evolves, or as clients need change. Ultimately, our goal is to provide the highest possible quality for the lowest possible cost.
What we offer our Employees
The ability to chart your individual career path based on your expertise and passionsAn environment that encourages you to identify new opportunities and the support to make it happenAn emphasis on quality of life that is highly accommodating and unparalleled in the industry, with no mandatory travel for client workThe opportunity to build and be part of a fun and collaborative organization with teams that are passionate about their clientsCulture-driven employees who work together to identify clients, technologies, and people in support of Kenway's ambitious growth targetsLeadership opportunities early and often in your career, no matter your tenureParticipation in internal operations, giving you a chance to help in your area of interest - such as Marketing, Human Resources, Sales or Technology - and make a real impactExceptional benefits and an above-market compensation package, including unlimited PTO, quarterly and annual bonuses, and a SEP-IRA to which we contribute 25% of every employee's total compensation
Our clients have increasingly returned to their physical locations post COVID. The expectation is that Kenway Consultants will need to live/work in the Chicagoland area.
Department:
Client Delivery
Employment Type:
Full Time
Location:
Chicago
Description
About This Position
We are looking for consultative, client-facing professionals seeking to grow their career in a variety of clients and industries, expand their network, and have the freedom to determine their own career path. As a Senior Consultant at Kenway, you will get the opportunity to apply your unique experience to the latest business and technical challenges that clients are facing. From day one, you'll help design, construct, and implement strategic solutions that help drive growth for our clients, for our company and for yourself.
Core Traits We Are SeekingEntrepreneurship: Passion to fuel growth by helping clients, peers, the organization and yourself with a continuous desire to learn.Tenacity: Ability to drive through ambiguity.Executive Presence: Clear, concise, and articulate when using written and verbal channels.Communication: Adept at communicating quickly and effectively whether the message is good or bad.Aptitude: You climb steep learning curves quickly.Integrity: Comfortable doing what is right for the project even when doing so may not be the most favorable path forward.Growth Mindset: Proactively develop core skills independently and with the help of others.
ResponsibilitiesWork across multiple industries, business areas, and business applicationsClimb steep learning curves to become expert in clients' businesses and technologiesApply industry, business and technical knowledge to achieve project expectations and project team objectivesWork within IT organizations with exposure to the full system implementation lifecycleUnderstand and deliver on a variety of project management or system development methodologiesCreate high caliber deliverables with minimal oversight based on a set of objectivesLead team members and scope across program workstreams or smaller projectsLead requirements identification and prioritization efforts for large scale business or technology programs or projectsParticipate in system design and functional specification developmentDevelop polished written communications that tell a cohesive story of findings, key messages, and future visionPropose creative ideas/solutions for how to meet and exceed objectives with Kenway clientsCreate and present professional, engaging deliverables in a client settingDevelop a proficiency in one or more Kenway serviceIdentify how tasks and dependencies will impact project drivers, such as timeline, budget, and scopeBuild and maintain professional and personal relationships while proactively growing your networkSupport business development activities at both existing and prospective clients of Kenway inclusive of the development and delivery of proposals and statements of workContribute to and lead passion projects that drive the overall growth and development of Kenway as a company
Qualifications, Skills and Credentials
Basic QualificationsPreferred Bachelor's degree with technical or business focus but other degrees will be considered with applicable experience2 to 6 years experience in client-facing/consultative roles2 to 6 years experience in one of Kenway's core capabilities areas: Technology Solution Delivery, Enterprise Program Leadership, Information Insight
Preferred Skills and CredentialsExperience with Project Management or system development methodologies (Agile, SDLC, etc.)Experience in business analysis, process improvement, or technical initiativesRelevant financial services, healthcare, distribution, or telecommunications industry experience
Experience is not needed across everything as Kenway is able to offer training, help and guidance to build additional skills.
What Our Company Looks Like
Kenway Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm whose entire reason for existence is to help companies and their employees. Founded in 2004 on the principles of being good and being truthful, Kenway's set of Guiding Principles steer each employee's decision-making process and center on integrity, quality, value and respect. The company focuses on the means and not the outcomes, always in line with these Guiding Principles, and always with integrity as its cornerstone. Kenway strives to provide all clients with unmatched quality and service, and specializes in the areas of Technology Solution Delivery, Enterprise Program Leadership, and Information Insight.
You will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with our world-class clients. Our projects tend to focus primarily on enterprise solutions, straddling our clients' technology and business organizations. Most of these engagements require a diverse combination of skills and experience.
At Kenway, we address our clients' needs by identifying the services and solutions that are required to solve their business challenges. We then provide the appropriate mix of resources to build the optimal project team for each engagement. This approach not only allows us to take on projects ranging in size and complexity, but it also allows us to adjust capacity and skill sets as the project evolves, or as clients need change. Ultimately, our goal is to provide the highest possible quality for the lowest possible cost.
What we offer our Employees
The ability to chart your individual career path based on your expertise and passionsAn environment that encourages you to identify new opportunities and the support to make it happenAn emphasis on quality of life that is highly accommodating and unparalleled in the industry, with no mandatory travel for client workThe opportunity to build and be part of a fun and collaborative organization with teams that are passionate about their clientsCulture-driven employees who work together to identify clients, technologies, and people in support of Kenway's ambitious growth targetsLeadership opportunities early and often in your career, no matter your tenureParticipation in internal operations, giving you a chance to help in your area of interest - such as Marketing, Human Resources, Sales or Technology - and make a real impactExceptional benefits and an above-market compensation package, including unlimited PTO, quarterly and annual bonuses, and a SEP-IRA to which we contribute 25% of every employee's total compensation
Our clients have increasingly returned to their physical locations post COVID. The expectation is that Kenway Consultants will need to live/work in the Chicagoland area.