Senior Consultant

Senior Consultant Job Description

Senior consultants in Canada guide multiple complex projects, teams, and initiatives to help achieve business strategies and objectives. Key skills include excellent subject-matter knowledge as well as communication, interpersonal, and supervisory skills. Senior consultants often manage programs from conception and design through implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement. They also regularly contribute to improving internal services and efficiencies. Employers seek candidates with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, management or an IT-related discipline, four years of demonstrated expertise leading complex team initiatives, and a strong knowledge of technology and the IT services industry.

Typical senior consultant duties:

Developing project plans, executing deliverables, and proactively identifying and managing risks and issues.

Defining project scope and creating a milestone and deadline list for delivery.

Coordinating with cross-functional team leaders, and monitoring and reporting on project status.

Communicating project progress, findings, output, and deployment plans to senior leadership and all constituents.

Providing mentoring, coaching, support, and guidance to project participants on policies, procedures, priorities, and methods.

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Salary for Senior Consultant

113500 - 164000

25th percentile

113500

The candidate is new to the role and building the needed skills, experience and autonomy.

50th percentile

130000

The candidate has the experience to perform core responsibilities without direct supervision and is comfortable with the role’s processes and subject matter.

75th percentile

164000

The candidate delivers value beyond the stated job duties, has advanced qualifications and experience, and is ready for the next career level.

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