Management Consulting Director, Technology

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RSM is seeking a growth-oriented Management Consulting Director to join our Technology Performance practice. This leader will play a critical role in driving the continued growth of the practice by expanding strategic client relationships, developing new market opportunities, and leading complex technology transformation engagements.

This Director will combine strong business development capabilities with deep expertise in Technology Strategy, ERP Strategy, IT Architecture, and complex transformation program leadership. The role requires a leader who can originate opportunities, shape solutions, build trusted executive relationships, oversee complex engagements, and develop high-performing consulting teams.

The ideal candidate is a proven consulting leader who can connect business strategy with technology, helping organizations make critical technology investment decisions, modernize their enterprise environments, and successfully execute large-scale transformation initiatives. This individual will also help shape the continued evolution of the Technology Performance practice by developing talent, strengthening capabilities, and bringing differentiated solutions to market.

Responsibilities

Practice Growth & Market Leadership

• Drive growth of the Technology Performance practice through business development, account expansion, relationship building, and new client acquisition.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline of technology consulting and transformation opportunities.
• Develop trusted relationships with senior executives, including CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, COOs, and other business and technology leaders.
• Lead strategic pursuits from opportunity identification and solution development through proposal creation, executive presentations, and contract award.
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships by connecting business priorities with RSM’s broader technology and consulting capabilities.
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies around key Technology Performance offerings and emerging client needs.
• Contribute to the practice’s market presence through thought leadership, industry events, executive presentations, and development of differentiated offerings.

Client & Engagement Leadership

• Serve as a senior trusted advisor to executives navigating complex technology strategies, investments, and transformation programs.
• Lead engagements spanning Technology Strategy, ERP Strategy and Selection, IT Architecture, enterprise application modernization, digital transformation, and technology operating model design.
• Advise clients on aligning technology investments and roadmaps with business strategy, growth objectives, operational needs, and financial priorities.
• Lead and oversee complex, multi-workstream transformation programs involving business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and third-party partners.
• Lead executive workshops, technology assessments, and strategy sessions and translate findings into actionable transformation roadmaps.
• Provide executive oversight across engagements, ensuring high-quality delivery, strong client relationships, financial performance, appropriate risk management, and successful business outcomes.
• Support clients through significant business and technology events, including enterprise modernization, organizational growth, transactions, integrations, carve-outs, and large-scale transformation initiatives.

Technology Transformation Leadership

• Serve as a subject matter expert in technology strategy and transformation, bringing a strong point of view on how organizations can use technology to enable business growth and improve performance.
• Lead technology strategy and roadmap development, including assessment of current-state capabilities, identification of gaps, investment prioritization, and future-state planning.
• Advise clients on ERP strategy, modernization, selection, implementation planning, and optimization, including the broader business and operating model implications of ERP transformation.
• Assess existing IT and enterprise architecture and develop future-state architectures that support scalability, integration, modernization, and business objectives.
• Provide leadership across complex technology environments involving ERP, cloud, data and analytics, AI, automation, enterprise applications, infrastructure, and integration architecture.
• Bring structure, governance, and executive leadership to large and complex transformation programs, including program strategy, executive governance, vendor coordination, risk management, dependency management, and stakeholder alignment.
• Evaluate technology environments and recommend practical, business-focused solutions that balance modernization goals, investment requirements, organizational readiness, and risk.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, market trends, ERP platforms, AI capabilities, and evolving technology operating models and translate those developments into practical client solutions and new market opportunities.

People & Practice Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop consulting professionals across multiple levels, creating a culture of high performance, accountability, collaboration, and continuous development.
• Build scalable consulting capabilities by developing talent, methodologies, intellectual capital, and repeatable solutions.
• Coach and develop team members while identifying and preparing future leaders within the practice.
• Collaborate with practice leadership on recruiting, workforce planning, capability development, and strategic investments needed to support continued growth.
• Foster collaboration across RSM service lines and capabilities to deliver integrated solutions and create broader client relationships.
• Help establish and maintain standards for engagement quality, client service, delivery excellence, and team performance.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 12+ years of management consulting, technology consulting, or technology transformation experience, including progressively increasing leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience selling, shaping, and delivering complex technology consulting engagements.
• Proven track record of business development, account growth, executive relationship management, and consulting sales.
• Deep experience in one or more core areas including Technology Strategy, ERP Strategy, IT Architecture, or large-scale technology transformation.
• Experience leading complex, multi-workstream programs involving business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments, including ERP platforms, enterprise applications, cloud, data and analytics, integration, AI, and automation.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy and operational requirements into technology roadmaps, architectures, and investment priorities.
• Strong project and program management capabilities, with experience leading complex initiatives across multiple stakeholders, workstreams, technologies, and vendors.
• Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary consulting teams.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to advise and influence C-suite and senior business and technology leaders.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience managing engagement economics, delivery quality, risk, and client expectations.
• Ability and willingness to travel based on client and business needs, up to 50% (Canada and US)

Preferred

• Experience advising clients within Private Equity, Real Estate, Construction, Consumer Products/CPG, or other complex business environments.
• Experience supporting technology strategy and transformation across the Private Equity transaction lifecycle, including technology due diligence, post-close planning, integrations, carve-outs, and portfolio company transformation.
• Experience working with construction, real estate, or capital-intensive organizations with complex technology, ERP, project management, or operational environments.
• Experience leading ERP modernization, enterprise application transformation, or ERP strategy and selection initiatives.
• Experience developing enterprise, solution, or technology architecture strategies within complex IT environments.
• Experience overseeing major transformation programs involving multiple workstreams, vendors, platforms, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience developing go-to-market strategies, building consulting offerings, and helping scale a technology consulting practice.
• Relevant advanced degree or professional certifications in areas such as enterprise architecture, ERP, cloud, program management, or technology transformation.

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmcanada.com/careers/life-at-rsm/rewards-and-benefits.html.

We believe flexibility and in-person connection both play an important role in how we work and grow. Most roles at RSM follow a hybrid workstyle, which means team members are aligned to an RSM office and come together in person when it best supports clients, teams, development or relationship-building. Some roles may be virtual or primarily on-site based on role requirements, team priorities and client needs.

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At RSM, an employee’s pay at any point in their career is intended to reflect their experiences, performance, and skills for their current role. The salary range (or starting rate for interns and associates) for this role represents numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, location, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.

Compensation Range: $138,000 - $253,300