Manager, Strategy & Transformation

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Our Strategy & Transformation team helps clients improve processes, leverage technology, and achieve their goals faster. We work with innovative companies across technology, biotech, life sciences, professional services, nonprofit, and consumer goods industries.

As a Strategy & Transformation Manager, you’ll collaborate with clients to develop strategies that drive operational, financial, and human capital success. You’ll work in small teams to analyze data, test hypotheses, and deliver actionable recommendations.

Core Services:

• Growth Strategy: Drive revenue growth through market research, competitive analysis, and pricing strategies.

• Operational Transformation: Optimize business processes, working capital, and customer service.

• Digital Transformation: Develop technology roadmaps, data strategies, and cost-saving initiatives.

• Human Capital Advisory: Lead change management, succession planning, and workforce development.

• M&A & Value Creation: Support due diligence, post-merger integration, and operational improvements.

Job Responsibilities 

• Lead projects focused on solving complex business problems, process, and technology problems at our clients.

• Coach and mentor consultants and sr. consultants on projects

• Design a project plan and be able to adapt to new information or changing client requirements.

• Manage a high quality project ensuring high quality client deliverables, on time projects, overall budget adherence and achievement of high client satisfaction scores

• Collaborate with internal subject matter experts and client resources as needed to delivery high quality client outcome.

• Conduct current state process assessments across and apply best practices, industry research, and competitor research to achieve defined business objectives  

• Leverage tools and techniques such as Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to develop process maps that can be leveraged to drive measurable change in a clients business and by implementation teams to generate meaningful business requirements and traceability.

• Use design thinking and other techniques to assist clients in the identification, prioritization, and sequencing of strategic business and technology initiatives and synthesize them into a cohesive roadmap.

• Assess organization structures, service offerings, and inter-company processes to define target state organization and operating models.

• Evaluate current state technology architecture assessment across the enterprise, develop gap assessment, and recommend target state with the help of subject matter experts.

• Evaluate current state technology architecture assessment across the enterprise, develop gap assessment, and recommend target state with the help of subject matter experts.

• Facilitate workshops and interviews with client stakeholders to generate business cases that are both quantitative and qualitative.

• Facilitate technology evaluation, selection, and design processes on the behalf of clients when appropriate.

• Leverage emerging tools and technologies such as Artificial Intelligence to streamline delivery processes and increase project team productivity.

• Create and deliver executive-level and board-level communications

• Partner with team and client to build business case and ROI model for completion of recommendations

• Build great client relationships that result in high customer satisfaction and additional project or recurring work

Requirements  

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, related major or equivalent work experience; Advanced degree preferred.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Consulting, Operations, Marketing, Finance, Accounting, or Software Development, with proven experience in process design, design thinking, IT strategy, and/or Human Capital Strategy.

• Hands-on business analysis skills including project vision, requirements documentation, process design, quality assurance, and rollouts; experienced in designing and documenting business processes and process maps.

• Solid understanding of enterprise software, cloud-based technologies, integrations, data strategy, technology architecture, cloud platforms, operating models, and governance frameworks.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex business challenges and develop effective solutions using frameworks such as systems thinking, SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, Root Cause Analysis, Design Thinking, and Lean Six Sigma.

• Strong project management capabilities, including managing multiple complex projects concurrently, setting goals, developing timelines, managing resources, and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery.

• Skilled in applying design thinking methodologies (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to real-world client challenges.

• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly organize information and deliver messages that drive decision-making at executive and board levels.

• Industry experience in one or more of Armanino’s strategic industries: technology, not-for-profit, healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, or distribution.

• Strong client relationship skills, with a proven ability to quickly build trust, deliver high satisfaction, generate follow-on work, and support complex sales cycles including discovery, scoping, pricing, and proposal development.

• Flexibility to work from home while collaborating in person half the time.

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Armanino provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Armanino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.    

Armanino expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Armanino employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.    

Armanino does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals, or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity, or third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes, or candidates submitted to Armanino or any employee or owner of Armanino without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Armanino and not subject to any fees or charges. For existing agreements, a role must be approved and open to external search; otherwise, unsolicited and unapproved submittals and referrals will be considered Armanino property and free of fees. In addition, Talent Acquisition is the sole point of contact, and contacting others in our organization without Talent Acquisition’s knowledge will result in termination of contract.   

Certain states require us to disclose the pay range and benefits summary for job openings. For Colorado residents, the compensation range for this position: $118,000 - $150,000. For Illinois residents, Washington residents, New York residents, and Southern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $125,000 - $165,000. For Northern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $140,000 - $175,000. Compensation may vary based on skills, role, and location. Eligible employees at certain levels can participate in a discretionary long-term financial incentive plan, subject to plan participation rules. 

Armanino has a robust offering of benefits, including:   

• Medical, dental, vision  

• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time  

• Flexible work arrangements  

• 401K with Profit Sharing  

• Wellness program  

• Generous parental leave  

• 11 paid holidays  

For positions based in San Francisco, consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, an arrest and conviction record will not automatically disqualify a qualified applicant from consideration.    

For Individuals who would be working within the City of Los Angeles, Armanino will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance   

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