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Consulting Director

Vaco
$180,000.00 - $199,000.00 / yr
United States, Iowa, Fairfield
Feb 10, 2026

THIS ROLE IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR C2C, THIRD PARTIES, or VISA SPONSORSHIP
Director of Consulting
About the Role
We are currently seeking aDirector of Consultingto lead and scale our client's fast-growing consulting organization. In this role, you'll own the performance, quality, and growth of our client's consulting services - managing delivery excellence, customer satisfaction, and business profitability. You'll act as the general manager of the practice, building the strategy, systems, and leadership needed to deliver impactful results for our global enterprise and mid-market customers.
This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership opportunity for someone who thrives onownership, autonomy, and accountabilityin a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.
This is a primarily remote role with some anticipated travel expected.
What You'll Do

  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of consulting and implementation services, ensuring excellence in execution, profitability, and customer experience.
  • Build and scale delivery processes, PMO governance, and organizational structure to support strong growth without compromising quality.
  • Drive services margin performance, utilization, and delivery predictability across all engagements.
  • Partner with executive leadership on forecasting, workforce planning, and delivery strategy.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to clients, expanding relationships through consultative insight and consistent delivery success.
  • Mentor and develop consulting leaders and teams to create a culture of clarity, accountability, and performance.
What Success Looks Like
  • Consistent achievement of margin and forecast goals
  • High customer satisfaction and retention across consulting engagements
  • Predictable, on-time delivery with reduced late-stage risk
  • Scalable growth with sustainable workloads and high team engagement
  • Executive confidence in the consulting organization's leadership and delivery

What You'll Bring
  • Proven Consulting Leadership:Experience running a for-profit, external consulting business with accountability for margins, utilization, and delivery outcomes.
  • Enterprise Delivery Expertise:Successful track record leading complex, multi-workstream enterprise implementations at scale.
  • Decisive Leadership:Confidence to set direction, make trade-offs, and lead in a matrixed environment without heavy support infrastructure.
Bonus Points
  • Background in software implementation or SaaS delivery environments
  • Experience scaling consulting teams through rapid growth (30-50+ team members)
  • Ownership of PMO and delivery operating model maturity
  • Familiarity with food, beverage, or other regulated industries

Who You Are
You lead with clarity, conviction, and accountability. You're energized by structure building, team development, and operational excellence. You enjoy solving complex delivery challenges, making decisions with confidence, and driving meaningful growth from the ground up.
If you're ready to help shape the next chapter of our client's consulting business - leading a high-performing team with global impact - we'd love to hear from you.

    Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

    EEO Notice

    Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

    Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .

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    By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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    Pay Transparency Notice

    Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

    • the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
    • licensure and certification requirements;
    • office location and other geographic considerations;
    • other business and organizational needs.

    With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

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