Director Energy & Infrastructure

At Pioneer Management Consulting, we believe people are at the heart of every successful transformation. We started Pioneer in 2009 with a simple idea : create jobs people love, serve companies we admire, and fund start-ups that are driving innovative good in the world. Built on our three core values; Humble, Hungry, Connected, we deliver world-class consulting with small-town heart and hustle. We are an elite team of problem solvers who unabashedly love business.

We partner with clients to solve critical business challenges while fostering environments where individuals and teams can thrive. Team Pioneer brings curiosity, empathy, and expertise to every interaction, ensuring that change is not only implemented but embraced. When you join Pioneer, you become part of a collaborative, supportive community dedicated to making a real difference. We’re a team of moms, dads, coaches, explorers, and creators who do meaningful work together.

As the Director of Energy & Infrastructure, you will be responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating the Energy Portfolio within the business. You will play a pivotal role in shaping offerings, refining strategy, driving business development, and building a world-class team.

Responsibilities :

• Maintain full oversight and responsibility for cross-practice delivery, including formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning use of human resources.
• Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, and procedures.
• Partner with business development and practice leadership on all opportunities, including scoping, proposals, relationship building, statements of work, and client value propositions.
• Perform personnel functions, by partnering with Talent Acquisition, to establish a pipeline, recruit, select, and onboard talent.
• Plan and direct activities of teams that will lead client projects. Manage the end-to-end development and delivery of solutions, from business development, through analysis, crafting engagement approaches, implementing solutions, and ensuring successful delivery.
• Indirectly develop team members through coaching, performance management, talent planning, and succession.
• Leverage a broad understanding of Pioneer’s offerings to identify opportunities, drive sales growth, and optimize solutions.
• Build client relationships and partner with business development / marketing to develop tailored sales collateral tailored. Serve as subject matter expert to augment business development with strategic, technical and practical insights; and build energy expertise throughout the team.
• Write white papers, articles, and blog posts.
• Participate in industry events and speaking engagements.
• Stay on top of industry trends, seek new ideas, and set overall sales and delivery strategy.
• Must engage in employer-paid travel 15-20% of the time to unanticipated domestic sites.
• Position may include a telecommute benefit within commuting distance to Minneapolis area office, or the Denver, CO office as directed.

Requirements :

Consulting Mindset : Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions, with an emphasis on clear communication, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving. Responsible for driving practice performance by managing consultant utilization, aligning staffing with project demands, and ensuring teams consistently meet or exceed practice financial and delivery satisfaction targets.

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Benefits

Pioneer is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) including employer match, tuition reimbursement, and a broad range of health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, long and short-term disability, etc.

The estimated salary range for this role is $150,000 - $220,000 annually. This range is unique to every candidate, and is based on skillset, years of experience, and breadth of knowledge. This may differ from location to location. Bonuses and other incentives are awarded at the Company's discretion and are based upon individual contributions and overall company performance.