Lead Consultant - Business Solutions (Solutions Lead)

Description & Requirements

Shape strategy. Lead innovation. Drive results. Maximus is seeking Lead Business Solutions Consultants to guide complex solution design initiatives, influence business transformation, and deliver innovative solutions that create meaningful impact for clients and communities. This is a remote opportunity! Why Maximus? - 💰 Competitive Compensation - bonus potential - 🛡️ Comprehensive Insurance Coverage - Choose from various plans, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription, and partially funded HSA. Additionally, enjoy Life insurance benefits and discounts on Auto, Home, Renter's, and Pet insurance. - 🌟 Future Planning - Prepare for retirement with our 401K Retirement Savings plan and Company Matching. - 🏝️ Paid Time Off Package - Enjoy UTO, Holidays, and sick leave, along with Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage. - 🌱 Holistic Wellness Support - Access resources for physical, emotional, and financial wellness through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). - 🏆 Recognition Platform - Acknowledge and appreciate outstanding employee contributions. - 📚 Tuition Reimbursement - Invest in your ongoing education and development. - 🎁 Employee Perks and Discounts - Additional benefits and discounts exclusively for employees. - 🌟 Maximus Wellness Program and Resources - Access a range of wellness programs and resources tailored to your needs. - 📚 Professional Development Opportunities - Participate in training programs, workshops, and conferences.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Own the end-to-end solution strategy and architecture for assigned opportunities, ensuring the solution is complete, integrated, compliant, competitive, and delivery-ready. - Establish solution assumptions, design principles, guardrails, and decision criteria to guide technical, operational, pricing, and delivery teams. - Resolve solution decisions and tradeoffs by balancing client requirements, capture strategy, delivery feasibility, pricing assumptions, risks, and competitive positioning. - Lead solutioning across the opportunity lifecycle, from early qualification and pre-bid strategy through proposal submission, governance reviews, and transition to delivery. - Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and decision forums with cross-functional teams to define, refine, and validate the integrated solution approach. - Keep the solution integrated and delivery-ready by managing dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks, and alignment across technical, operational, staffing, implementation, and pricing components. - Assign analytical priorities and workstreams to analysts supporting solution development, including requirements analysis, capability mapping, gap assessment, staffing inputs, risk analysis, and competitive research. - Review, validate, and synthesize analyst outputs to ensure accuracy, relevance, completeness, and alignment with solution strategy and proposal needs. - Translate analytical findings into solution decisions, design inputs, assumptions, risks, and proposal content that support a credible and executable solution. - Develop and contribute to proposal solution content, ensuring narratives accurately reflect the approved solution and remain internally consistent, compliant, and compelling. - Present and defend solution approaches with internal leadership, capture teams, proposal teams, and, when appropriate, client stakeholders. - Participate in client workshops, oral presentations, demonstrations, solution walk-throughs, and related engagement activities when needed to support pursuit strategy and solution credibility.

- Lead business solution design workstreams for pursuits, client opportunities, and transformation initiatives. - Facilitate discussions with operations, technology, pricing, pursuit operations, proposal, implementation, and subject matter experts to define service delivery models, business processes, staffing approaches, technology-enabled