Senior Managing Consultant

Title: Senior Managing Consultant Location: Atlanta, GA

The Virtus Solution is seeking an experienced Senior Managing Consultant to provide strategic leadership for large, complex enterprise transformation initiatives, with a particular focus on ERP upgrades and technology-enabled business transformation.

This individual will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives and key stakeholders while leading program governance, delivery coordination, risk management, executive communications, and cross-functional alignment. The ideal candidate can successfully bridge the gap between business and technology—translating complex technical activities into meaningful business impacts, value drivers, and organizational outcomes.

As a consultant with Virtus, you will work closely with client executives, business leaders, technology teams, and delivery organizations to ensure complex transformation programs remain aligned, coordinated, and positioned for successful execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic program and project leadership for large, complex enterprise transformation initiatives.

• Lead ERP upgrade and transformation programs, including overall 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 effective 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 leadership and decision support to executive stakeholders by clearly communicating program progress, risks, issues, and critical decisions.

• Build strong relationships with executive, business, technology, and delivery stakeholders across multiple levels of the organization.

• Engage with senior executives and leadership 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.

• Ensure technical upgrade activities and decisions are translated into clear business impacts, capability outcomes, and value drivers.

• Support organizational readiness by helping stakeholders understand how technology and transformation activities impact business operations.

• Develop and maintain escalation processes to ensure critical issues are addressed at the appropriate level.

• Identify opportunities to improve program delivery, governance, stakeholder engagement, and overall transformation outcomes.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to client leadership while representing Virtus with professionalism, integrity, and exceptional client service.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience leading strategic programs and projects within 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 with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership.

• Experience developing executive-level status reporting, 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.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working 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.

Additional Information:

• Preferred Location: Atlanta, GA
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer directly. All positions include the possibility of travel.
• The Virtus Solution is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a culture of equality, inclusion, and fairness — each foundational to our core values. We strive to create a diverse environment where each employee is encouraged to bring their unique ideas, background and experience to the workplace.

Join The Virtus Solution and help our clients navigate complex transformations, solve challenging problems, and achieve meaningful business outcomes.