Lead Consultant -Business Solutions (Solutions Lead)

Description & Requirements

Shape strategy. Lead innovation. Drive results. Maximus is seeking a Business Solutions Lead 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 workflows,