Project Manager, Consulting Delivery

Position: Project Manager, Consulting Delivery

Company: Blue Ops

Organizational Alignment: Transformation & Delivery (M&A Analytics, Quality of Earnings, FinOps)

Location: Minneapolis, MN

ABOUT BLUE OPS

Blue Ops is a professional services firm operating at the intersection of finance, data, technology, and private equity. We partner with middle-market private equity firms, investment banks, and portfolio companies to solve complex business challenges.

Across our core practices (Finance & Accounting Operations, Data Analytics, M&A Analytics, Quality of Earnings, and Transformation & Delivery), we combine technical expertise with hands-on execution to help clients make confident investment decisions, improve business performance, navigate transactions, and create lasting enterprise value.

Our clients operate in high-stakes environments where accuracy, speed, and execution matter.

WHO WORKS AT BLUE OPS:

We're not consultants who simply assess problems and deliver recommendations. We're hands-on problem solvers who get into the details, work alongside our clients, and take ownership of delivering tangible outcomes.

We combine the sophistication of a larger consulting firm with the agility, accountability, and personal investment of a specialized team. Our people are curious, collaborative, adaptable, and motivated by solving challenging problems and making a meaningful impact.

THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager, Consulting Delivery to support client engagements across our M&A Analytics, Quality of Earnings, and Finance & Accounting Operations practices. You will embed with consulting teams to turn client objectives into clear plans, coordinate execution, and help deliver work on time and within scope and budget.

Our engagements vary in scope, pace, and complexity, from transaction-related analytics and financial diligence to finance operations onboarding and ongoing client support. You'll bring the right level of structure to each engagement, keeping people, priorities, deliverables, and deadlines aligned without adding unnecessary process.

You'll work with business development and practice leadership as projects take shape, helping define scope, timelines, resourcing, and delivery expectations. Across multiple concurrent engagements, you'll lead the project management process from kickoff through closeout, including plans, coordination, progress tracking, risk management, stakeholder communication, and change control.

Success requires strong judgment and a practical understanding of how consulting engagements run. You won't own the team's technical analysis or client advice, but you will know when to ask questions, challenge assumptions, surface dependencies, and help teams address delivery risks before they become larger problems.

Just as importantly, you'll be a trusted partner to our consultants, practice leaders, and clients. You'll lead through relationships, sound judgment, and earned trust, bringing a hands-on, consultative approach to difficult conversations and the flexibility to adapt to each team's needs rather than enforce process for its own sake.

As one of the first members of our emerging Transformation & Delivery practice, you'll help shape practical project management approaches across Blue Ops, improving delivery consistency while preserving the distinct ways our consulting practices serve their clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Pre-Sales & Project Scoping

• ·Partner with M&A Analytics, Quality of Earnings, and FinOps practice leaders and account teams during pre-sales to clarify client objectives, project scope, estimated effort, deliverables, and Statement of Work (SOW) commitments.
• Help translate engagement commitments into realistic milestones, work plans, ownership, and delivery expectations appropriate to the project type.

Project Planning & Kickoff

• Develop and maintain right-sized project plans, identifying phases, milestones, task ownership, dependencies, resources, and client deliverables.
• Coordinate internal and client kickoffs to align stakeholders on objectives, scope, responsibilities, timelines, and communication expectations.

Portfolio Oversight & Escalation

• Monitor a portfolio of active engagements in Forecast, tracking project progress, resourcing, actual and projected hours against budgets, and SOW commitments to proactively identify delivery risks, budget overruns, and scope changes.
• Serve as a two-way escalation resource: proactively flag risks surfaced in Forecast and respond to concerns raised by project teams; align next steps with practice leadership.
• Work with teams to resolve exceptions and support client escalations when needed. Engagement leads manage routine client status meetings and day-to-day communication, while the Project Manager joins when risks, escalations, written approvals for scope or budget changes, or key decisions require involvement.

Financial & Billing Management

• Prepare and manage project invoices in Forecast, ensuring accurate, timely, consistent billing and appropriate practice-lead review and approval.
• Support accounts receivable follow-up and resolution of billing questions in partnership with Finance and practice leadership.

Engagement Closeout & Transition

• Identify opportunities for continued client engagement, translating insights gained during delivery into recommendations for future projects, including opportunities to support the next phase of the deal lifecycle or drive additional value creation.
• Partner with practice leadership to develop and present a compelling engagement recap that highlights work completed, value delivered, and key insights uncovered.
• Lead project closeout activities, confirming deliverables, reviewing project performance, and capturing lessons learned to support continuous improvement.

Delivery Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Establish and uphold consistent project management standards across Blue Ops, ensuring all engagements follow core processes, documentation requirements, and systems of record.
• Adapt project management approaches to the needs of each practice, engagement, and team, building trust through collaboration, sound judgment, and flexibility.
• Continuously improve delivery practices by identifying opportunities to streamline processes, introduce effective tools, and balance firmwide operational consistency with team-level creativity and efficiency.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing client-facing projects, preferably within professional services, consulting, financial services, or business operations environments.
• Experience coordinating complex consulting engagements from scoping and kickoff through execution and closeout; exposure to M&A, financial diligence, or finance operations is a plus.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements with varying timelines, stakeholders, and levels of project management support.
• Proven ability to develop and manage project plans, milestones, ownership, resources, budgets, and deliverables across different project types.
• Experience monitoring project financials, including actual hours against budgets, resource forecasts, scope changes, and change-order support.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams, surface delivery risks, and drive accountability without direct reporting authority.
• Excellent client-facing communication and relationship management skills, including the confidence to facilitate meetings and navigate difficult conversations about timelines, budgets, priorities, and scope.
• Experience with formal or lightweight project management approaches and the judgment to select the right level of structure for each engagement.
• Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable balancing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, client-service environment.
• Collaborative, hands-on leadership style with strong problem-solving skills, executive presence, and the ability to earn the trust of consultants and client stakeholders.

Health

· Medical insurance: Three HealthPartners High Deductible Health Plan options

· Health Savings Account (HSA) with medical plan enrollment

· Dental insurance: Principal PPO plan with 100% in-network preventive care

· Vision insurance: Principal / VSP PPO plan

Wealth

· Retirement plan: 3% employer contribution regardless of employee contribution (eligible after 6 months of employment)

· Reimbursement for approved and job-relevant professional development, tuition, and certifications (eligible after 6 months of employment and subject to manager approval)

· Complimentary Interactive Online Learning Platform access for all employees

· Employee referral bonus program ($2,500 per successful referral)

Well-Being

· Company-paid basic Life Insurance and Accidental D&D coverage

· Optional Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance

· 3 weeks of Paid Time Off per calendar year

· 8 paid company holidays

· Parental Leave

· Summer Fridays: Early release at noon between Memorial Day and Labor Day (subject to workload and client deliverables)

· Work From Anywhere: The week of Thanksgiving, the week between Christmas and New Year's, plus one additional flexible week per year

Insurance coverage begins the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment. This is an overview of benefits offered by Blue Ops and is subject to terms, conditions, and change.

Blue Ops Partners, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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