West MonroeSenior Manager, National Practice Strategy & Operations
Mar. 2022Chicago, Illinois, United StatesInternally focused on evaluating, developing and executing the strategy and operations of West Monroe's national Customer Solutions practice. This includes financial planning, resource management, operational reporting, authoring of key communications, and collaborating with internal functions (marketing, recruiting, talent development, etc.) • Serve on the Customer Solutions (CS) Practice leadership team and drive strategic alignment across 32 leaders in 6 different geographies
• Develop annual strategy and lead a Program Management Office for internal practice development with over 14 key initiatives and 50+ deliverables across 200 person practice • Develop and enhance reporting as needed and analyze financial and operational performance to drive decisions: achieve monthly firmwide revenue targets across 6 P&Ls for 2+ years ($65M+ in 2021) • Oversee Sr. staffing resource specialist who tackles day-to-day staffing for ~200 CS resources. Previously owned ongoing resource management and still act as primary escalation point as well as support resource conversations (staffing, career equity, mentoring, HR liaison)
• Championed and sponsored improvement/automation of key operational processes including automated distribution lists, enhancements to national governance model, and documentation of SOPs
• Collaborate closely with the C-Suite and Shared Services leaders on a regular basis to effectively set the firmwide strategy and run the business
• Guide team of authors and author monthly State of the Business newsletter for 250+ recipients, CS Quarterly Meetings, Bi-monthly level-based meetings, and other key communications