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TEKsystems · 18 hours ago

TGS Strategic Government Advisor

United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$147K/yr - $220K/yr

10+ years exp

TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) is a growth solution provider for enterprises, focusing on technology, strategy, and operations with a customer-first mindset. The Strategic Government Advisor serves as a trusted partner to government clients, ensuring long-term success through strategic advisory, relationship management, and delivery excellence.

Information Technology

Hiring Manager

John T. Howlett

Responsibilities

Provide insight into government priorities, policies, and funding cycles

Advise clients on transformation, regulation, and innovation opportunities

Anticipate policy shifts and align organizational solutions to public objectives

Build senior-level relationships across agencies, strategic partners, and lobbyist key stakeholders

Act as a point of contact for executive engagement and issue resolution

Foster trust-based partnerships focused on shared outcomes

Lead account strategy for public sector portfolios

Identify and convert new opportunities in alignment with government agendas

Assist with proposal development, contracting, and negotiations

Ensure delivery excellence across engagements

Connect cross-functional teams (consulting, technology, operations) to meet client needs

Measure client satisfaction and ensure performance metrics are met

Lead and influence both internal and external stakeholders toward a technically sound solution that meets the customers’ expectations for cost and risk considerations

Perform various interactive sessions with external customers to develop a strategy for solution acceptance and understanding, expanding the customer’s perception of possible approaches

Consolidate solution status and proposed costing information across the project stakeholders

Ensure sales/solution/delivery escalation procedures are addressed and communicated to client, consultants, and managers

Lead, influence, and capture quantifiable and monetized value statements that are visualized and messaged during the solutioning phases. Support and help delivery enable, measure, and support that value realization and then report and message the actual quantified and monetized business value the services rendered

Perform sales/solutions/delivery risk and opportunity issue management and facilitate issue resolution with proper notification to all affected parties

Identify and coordinate the solution/delivery change control process

Provide extensive technical guidance and leadership to influence the internal and external stakeholders to understand the larger solutions context and risk considerations

Identify and capitalize on additional opportunities as they arise within the customer environment and address as part of the ongoing sales cycle

Understand TEKsystems Global Services differentiating services offerings, discern where the capabilities and opportunities exist, and map those into short-term and long-term strategies within TL program portfolio

Assess, build, and enhance the positioning of TEKsystems at the highest levels within the enterprise services world

Contribute to TEKsystems Global Services’ best practices and knowledge repository

Qualification

Government ConsultingCloud ServicesData ServicesDigital TransformationRelationship ManagementSales StrategyProject ManagementAnalytical SkillsCommunication SkillsLeadership Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent, relevant experience

10 or more years of experience working in or with experience in government consulting, public affairs, or public sector account leadership

10 or more years of experience in information technology and/or professional services with an emphasis on Cloud Services (AWS, Azure), DevOps ToolChain, Data Services and EDH, Application Development, Security/Compliance enterprise level integration experience and knowledge required

Experience in developing solutions and delivering and administrating client professional services agreements, including the change management process

Frequent interactions with external customers at the CIO level; normal level of interactions is the CIO level; established consulting and interpersonal skills with 10 or more years of experience

10 or more years in IT service management/project management providing solution development and daily sales/solutions oversight within a professional services environment or equivalent and relevant experience in managing resources in appropriate environments

Proven success in influencing or managing complex government accounts

Strong relationships and network in government and regulatory bodies

Expertise in sectors like digital transformation, infrastructure, and health and human services

Strong conceptual and analytical skills which demonstrate out of the box problem solving

Proven ability to appropriately prioritize and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment

Excellent oral and written communication skills (English language)

Superior people and personnel management skills

Strong organizational skills – Leadership, management, process, relationship management

Understands organizational interdependence and cultural nuance and can leverage them to build relationships that span a broad spectrum of organizational levels – A change agent who can constructively challenge peers and executives in an appropriate fashion

Broad strategic thinker - Understands the big picture and business issues; a quick thinker who can hold his/her own in the company of thought leaders and other high-performance professionals

A flexible problem-solver - Can manage a large and diverse portfolio of projects and issues and rapidly assess situations with multiple outcomes and consequences

A confident, proactive self-starter - Can work autonomously with strong attention to detail

Unquestionable integrity and discretion - Committed to core values and ethical business conduct and has the backbone to stand up for what is right and necessary

High professional integrity and honesty - Able to separate