Senior Manager, Practice Operations

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CelerityUtilities consulting
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United States; remote (work from home eligible)Full-TimeManager
Salary160,000 - 180,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
Minimum of 10 years of experience in technology consulting, professional services, or a related discipline
Required Skills
Project ManagementAgileRisk Management

Requirements

  • Have a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Bring at least 10 years of experience in technology consulting, professional services, or a related discipline.
  • Demonstrate experience leading teams of senior practitioners and managing performance reviews, difficult conversations, retention risk, and career development.
  • Have experience managing resource deployment and capacity planning in a project-based or consulting environment.
  • Have experience working with Agile and Waterfall methodologies in SaaS companies or with system integrators.
  • Understand the practice disciplines of project management, business and technical analysis, solution architecture, and engineering.
  • Have a strong understanding of utility operations, asset management, and regulatory compliance.
  • Demonstrate team-building and leadership experience, including developing talent.
  • Have project management skills, including project planning, execution, and risk management.
  • Be able to travel domestically and/or internationally if required.
  • Preferred: experience in practice operations, delivery management, or capability development within a consulting or technology services organization.
  • Preferred certifications include PMP/PMI-ACP, Prosci/Change Management, ITIL, or SAFe/Agile.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate weekly resource planning across projects and align staffing with demand and capacity.
  • Track utilization across active engagements and address over-allocation, burnout risks, and skill mismatches.
  • Maintain practice operating cadences, onboarding sequences, delivery tools, templates, methodologies, and standards.
  • Partner with project teams to maintain discovery frameworks, requirements standards, stakeholder approaches, and deliverable quality benchmarks.
  • Build learning and development plans, competency frameworks, and delivery playbooks across the practice’s pillars.
  • Manage onboarding and development for new hires and serve as a direct people manager for senior business analysis professionals.
  • Partner with leadership on capacity planning, coaching models, cross-pillar development, and practice structure.
  • Review project deliverables, conduct quality audits, and promote continuous improvement through feedback and retrospectives.
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