**This role isnoteligiblefor100% remotework. Employees must live within a commutable distance of the Portland Area and must be willing to be onsite at the client and/or Slalom Portland office up to 5 days a week.**
Who You'll Work With
At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. Our vision is to enable a world in which everyone loves their work and life. We help organizations of all kinds redefine what's possible, give shape to the future-and get there.
We are seeking a Portland-based Client Partner (Director) to join our team, supporting our retail and consumer products accounts. The main responsibilities of a Client Partner are growing Slalom's business at the designated account(s), developing, maintaining and expanding client relationships, delivering solutions, leading/coaching teams, driving sales, and account management. You will be responsible for growing the client account, including revenue, margin, and customers across all geographies.
What You'll Do
Business Development:
- Demonstrate deep understanding of the client's business, industry, and strategic priorities through ongoing research and preparation
- Proactively invest time and energy in how you show up with clients, ensuring they feel supported, valued, and confident in Slalom as a long term partner
- Bring the right Slalom leaders, practitioners, and partners into conversations at the right time to maximize client outcomes
- Maintain visible executive presence with clients beyond active delivery, reinforcing long term partnership and continuity
- Build and execute strategies to develop business within existing and new clients
- Build and manage a $4-6M+ portfolio
- Be responsible for achieving and maintaining client satisfaction
- Partner with internal teams to shape high impact solutions that address client challenges and create new opportunities
- Lead the conversion of solution ideas into qualified opportunities, coordinating pursuit strategy and value proposition development
- Orchestrate and build pursuit teams to solve clients' business problems, lead teams through deal close with a high degree of collaboration and motivation
- Lead engagements and project teams, delivering complex solutions
- Contribute to project delivery
- Collaborate with other Client Partners, Sales team members and practitioners to develop and deliver business
- Leverage and continue to grow your retail and consumer goods experience to sell and deliver meaningful outcomes
Account Leadership:
- Proven experience growing and leading client accounts within the consulting industry
- Deep expertise in Retail and/or Consumer Goods
- Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate, present, and tell compelling stories that influence senior client stakeholders
- Ability to apply personal expertise (e.g., digital commerce, data & analytics, cloud, transformation, or industry-specific domains) to shape solutions, guide teams, and build client confidence
- Understanding of partner led sales motions, with the ability to drive pipeline and revenue through ecosystem relationships
- Track record of building and deepening client relationships across all levels of an organization over time
- 10+ years' of experience leading and managing teams across the full project lifecycle within an IT services or consulting environment, including managing a large account or multiple accounts
- Experience delivering as a consultant, balancing leadership of large-scale transformational programs with hands-on individual contribution
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.
What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That's why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.
Compensation and Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for Director is $164,000 to $240,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.
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