What are the responsibilities and job description for the Practice Lead position at Centric Consulting?
Job Level: Manager
Job Location: Detroit, MI
Travel Expectations: Up to 25%
Job Classification: Full-Time
Join Centric Consulting – A Culture You’ll Love
At Centric Consulting, we've cultivated a unique approach to business. Our business is built on three fundamental principles: Enjoy the people you work with, have fun, and do great work. These principles define our consulting model and have crafted one of the most vibrant cultures in the consulting industry – celebrating individuals, collaboration, and lifelong friendships.
In this role, you will:
We proudly offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive and well-rounded benefits package for full-time employees that have been designed to nourish your well-being, such as health coverage, wellness programs, 401K company match, self-managed PTO, and other unique incentives that celebrate your accomplishments.
Discover more about our benefits by exploring additional details here benefits .
Who We Are:
Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility, and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees in the U.S. and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.
Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.
What Makes Centric a Great Place to Work?
We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion , from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.
Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the application or interview process.
Job Location: Detroit, MI
Travel Expectations: Up to 25%
Job Classification: Full-Time
Join Centric Consulting – A Culture You’ll Love
At Centric Consulting, we've cultivated a unique approach to business. Our business is built on three fundamental principles: Enjoy the people you work with, have fun, and do great work. These principles define our consulting model and have crafted one of the most vibrant cultures in the consulting industry – celebrating individuals, collaboration, and lifelong friendships.
In this role, you will:
- Work directly with our senior leadership team and partner with other Centric practice leads on strategy development, assessments, operational improvements, and execution.
- Provide expertise and content marketing to increase sales and delivery of business consulting solutions for the Detroit market.
- Prioritize goals and implement strategies to achieve company projects as part of the leadership team.
- Drive direct sales efforts and enablement across the Operating Group (OG).
- Provide sales leadership on all key consulting pursuits and will be expected to exhibit superior thought leadership throughout the sales life cycle.
- Increase revenue for this OG by identifying sales opportunities and managing the sales process through contract execution. This includes functioning in a collaborative team approach during pursuits while understanding how to deliver end-to-end programs that deliver strategic value.
- Grow Centric’s presence in the market, broaden the network of relationships, be an advocate for our brand, and help to educate companies about our full-service offerings.
- Participate in and support National Practice projects, methodology, tools, best practices, knowledge sharing, and events; build a local delivery team through recruiting, mentoring, and developing local talent and operating group resources; maximize team performance through a team approach that increases productivity and job satisfaction.
- Set an account strategy and goals and provide leadership to ensure the team achieves the planned goals.
- Experience building a growing business with entrepreneurship that helps us break into new accounts and grow them with our team.
- A strategic relationship builder with existing meaningful relationships with senior leaders within the Southeastern Michigan area. Centric enjoys lasting relationships with our clients, so we are looking for someone who enjoys building meaningful, long-lasting relationships.
- Experience in establishing and growing accounts through strong account management practices.
- Active in our community, finding new and creative ways to continue building your network and find new business opportunities to pursue.
- Assess client needs, identify omissions and gaps, and design solutions.
- Experience writing, negotiating, and completing contracts and agreements.
- Proven experience providing consulting/technology services and project management.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience with a variety of methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) is desirable.
- Identify important resource needs and staffing and managing team members.
- Experience developing financial plans, managing financial goals, and responsibility for organizational or departmental P&L.
We proudly offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive and well-rounded benefits package for full-time employees that have been designed to nourish your well-being, such as health coverage, wellness programs, 401K company match, self-managed PTO, and other unique incentives that celebrate your accomplishments.
- Remote and Hybrid Work
- Time Off When You Need It
- Benefits That Flex
- Professional Development
Discover more about our benefits by exploring additional details here benefits .
Who We Are:
Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility, and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees in the U.S. and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.
Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.
What Makes Centric a Great Place to Work?
We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion , from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.
Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the application or interview process.
