Government Practice Leader
FI Consulting
- Arlington, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Grow FI’s government business by finding, cultivating, and closing new opportunities at existing clients, and developing new clients
- Build relationships with key client accounts
- Implement and ensure consistent strategies for building pipeline, business development, and capture
- Train and lead others to support building pipeline, business development, and capture
- Expand and manage relationships with business partners
- Achieve growth, and performance goals
- Develop sales leaders, and manage them to achieve their goals
- Draw on and contribute to FI’s core assets and competencies, and use FI’s asset base (technology, data, and methodologies) to sell solutions with greater leverage
- Embody FI core values, and lead and support corporate-wide initiatives
- Collaborate effectively with leaders across all levels of FI
- Conduct quarterly reviews of progress against plan
Required personal characteristics:
- Embodies the highest ethical and professional standards
- Motivated by excellence, and by setting and achieving goals
- Hands-on and takes ownership—sees what needs to be done and gets it done
- Team player that works collaboratively with personnel at all levels of an organization
- Builds trust-based relationships with colleagues, clients, and prospects
- Organizational thinker and builder
- Ability and desire to sell in a high value consultative environment
- Cares about and motivates the people in their organization
- Can work with limited structure
- Deep knowledge of the Federal government marketplace, including how Federal agencies buy, how to sell to them, and competitive factors e.g., personnel, partners, past performance, pricing, etc.
- Understanding of how data, modeling, analytics, and technology can drive solutions to business problems
- Established relationships within government agencies and government contractor community
- Experience and deep understanding of consulting delivery on Federal government contracts is a plus
- Understanding of federal credit agencies, financial regulators, or banking or other private sector financial institutions is a plus
- Direct experience selling management consulting services, custom technology solutions, or other complex offerings to Federal agencies
- Has successfully developed and managed organizations responsible for sales and delivery
- Experience designing and implementing business development initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to manage a P&L and drive business growth
- Authorization for permanent employment in the U.S.
- Authorized to work in the United States as a permanent resident or US Citizen. We are not able to sponsor or accept any visa holders including H1B and OPT.
- Successfully pass a background investigation and drug screening.
- Reside in the DC Metro area within 30 days of hire.