Consultant

Department: Client Delivery

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Chicago

Description

About This Position

Kenway is looking for tenacious, entrepreneurial problem solvers that want to experience a variety of clients and industries, expand their network, and have the freedom to determine their own career path. As a Consultant at Kenway, you will get the opportunity to help clients solve critical technology and business problems using services and reusable frameworks that you help design, construct, and implement. From day one you will instantly begin developing and refining your ability to drive to strategic solutions through Kenway's on the job training model that allows you to develop and grow skillsets at a rapid pace.

Core Traits We Are Seeking
• Entrepreneurship: Passion to fuel growth by helping clients, peers, the organization, and yourself with a continuous hunger to learn.
• Problem Solvers: Ability to solve complex problems in a structured way.
• Tenacity: Ability to drive through ambiguity.
• Executive Presence: Clear, concise, and articulate when using written and verbal channels.
• Communication: Adept at communicating quickly and effectively whether the message is good or bad.
• Aptitude: You climb steep learning curves quickly.
• Integrity: Comfortable doing what is right for the project even when doing so may not be the most favorable path forward.
• Growth Mindset: Proactively develop core skills independently and with the help of others.

Responsibilities
• Climb steep learning curves to become experts in clients' businesses and technologies
• Work on multiple clients in various industries at any given point in time
• Apply industry, business, and technical knowledge to achieve project expectations and project team objectives
• Increase subject matter expertise in Kenway's core capabilities and services
• Work independently and with experts to deliver high-quality, client-facing deliverables Achieve project expectations and meet assigned deadlines with general guidance from senior consulting manager
• Lead meetings and deliver presentations to client stakeholders
• Build expertise to bridge the communications gap between business and technology resources
• Build and maintain professional and personal relationships while proactively growing network
• Support business development activities at both existing and prospective clients of Kenway
• Support the development and delivery of proposals and statements of work
• Participate in the growth and development of Kenway as a company
• Contribute to passion projects that drive the overall growth and development of Kenway as a company

Qualifications, Skills and Credentials

Basic Qualifications
• Preferred Bachelor's Degree or comparable experience in a technical or business field (Computer Science, Finance, Economics, etc.)
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.)

Preferred Skills and Credentials• Consultative nature and the ability to question the status quo
• Attention to detail and high-quality execution of tasks
• Openness to work with a variety of different clients, industries, and services

Experience is not needed across everything as Kenway is able to offer training, help and guidance to build additional skills.

What our Company looks like

Kenway Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm whose entire reason for existence is to help companies and their employees. Founded in 2004 on the principles of being good and being truthful, Kenway's set of Guiding Principles steer each employee's decision-making process and center on integrity, quality, value and respect. The company focuses on the means and not the outcomes, always in line with these Guiding Principles, and always with integrity as its cornerstone. Kenway strives to provide all clients with unmatched quality and service, and specializes in the areas of Technology Solution Delivery, Enterprise Program Leadership, and Information Insight.

You will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with our world-class clients. Our projects tend to focus primarily on enterprise solutions, straddling our clients' technology and business organizations. Most of these engagements require a diverse combination of skills and experience.

At Kenway, we address our clients' needs by identifying the services and solutions that are required to solve their business challenges. We then provide the appropriate mix of resources to build the optimal project team for each engagement. This approach not only allows us to take on projects ranging in size and complexity, but it also allows us to adjust capacity and skill sets as the project evolves, or as clients need change. Ultimately, our goal is to provide the highest possible quality for the lowest possible cost.

What we offer our Employees
• The ability to chart your individual career path based on your expertise and passions
• An environment that encourages you to identify new opportunities and the support to make it happen
• An emphasis on quality of life that is highly accommodating and unparalleled in the industry, with no mandatory travel for client work
• The opportunity to build and be part of a fun and collaborative organization with teams that are passionate about their clients
• Culture-driven employees who work together to identify clients, technologies, and people in support of Kenway's ambitious growth targets
• Leadership opportunities early and often in your career, no matter your tenure
• Participation in internal operations, giving you a chance to help in your area of interest - such as Marketing, Human Resources, Sales or Technology - and make a real impact
• Exceptional benefits and an above-market compensation package, including unlimited PTO, quarterly and annual bonuses, and a SEP-IRA to which we contribute 25% of every employee's total compensation

Post COVID, our clients have increasingly returned to their physical locations. The expectation is that Kenway Consultants will need to live/work in the Chicagoland area.