Consulting Manager - Strategic Program Management

Overview

Excelerate LLC is a boutique consulting firm distinguished by its hands-on, collaborative approach to solving complex business challenges. We partner closely with our clients, bringing deeply experienced consultants who work in a facilitative style to deliver practical, lasting impact. Our work is grounded in four core values: humility, energy, integrity, and flexibility. These principles shape our culture, guide our work, and define the people who thrive here.

• Process & Digital Acceleration
• Designing and implementing systems and processes that enhance efficiency and enable scalable growth
• Customer-Centric Growth & Organizational Enablement
• Identifying and prioritizing customer and market opportunities (B2B and B2C) that generate financial impact, while enabling business strategies through human-centered design and organizational enablement.
• Data Connectivity & Intelligence
• Leveraging data to create a competitive advantage through data architecture, integrations, business dashboards, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions

As a Consulting Manager
, you will lead complex, enterprise-wide initiatives through strategic program management
, ensuring alignment between organizational goals and execution. You’ll design and oversee integrated programs that drive transformational change, optimize business processes, and embed sustainable practices. By applying a structured, strategic approach, you’ll guide clients through high-impact transformations that unify stakeholders, enhance operational performance, and enable scalable growth. This role offers broad exposure across multiple service areas while positioning you as a trusted advisor in delivering measurable, long-term value.

• Lead complex transformation engagements or work streams from initiation through delivery, ensuring high-quality execution, clear governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Build and manage strategic programs by defining scope, establishing structure, aligning stakeholders, and driving cross-functional execution.
• Assess, redesign, and optimize business processes to improve efficiency, reduce friction, and support scalable operating models.
• Translate complex or ambiguous business challenges into actionable strategies informed by data analysis, process mapping, and structured problem solving.
• Lead operational improvement and enterprise transformation programs that align people, processes, and technology for sustainable impact.
• Develop business cases, KPIs, and performance measurement frameworks to track progress and sustain performance improvements.
• Facilitate workshops and collaborative working sessions with executives and cross-functional teams to co-create solutions and build organizational alignment.
• Design and execute change management and training programs—including stakeholder engagement, communication, capability-building, and adoption planning—to ensure smooth transitions and long-term success.
• Build and nurture long-term client relationships grounded in trust, transparency, and consistent delivery of value.

• 4+ years of management consulting or strategic program management experience driving cross-functional transformation in complex environments.
• Proven success delivering measurable results in one or more of the following areas:
• Strategic Program Management
• Organizational Change Enablement
• Business Process Optimization & Operational Excellence
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to engage, influence, and partner with senior executives and cross-functional leaders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Comfort working in ambiguous environments, learning new domains quickly, and driving structure and accountability.
• Highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented with experience managing multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholders simultaneously in dynamic environments.
• Experience with change management in complex organizations.
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and communication skills, with the confidence to engage senior executives effectively.
• Industry experience in financial…