Business Consultant

Overview

Cummings Electrical is hiring a Business Improvement Solutions (BIS) Consultant.

Currently seeking a Business Improvement Solutions (BIS) Consultant to partner with teams across Cummings Electrical to solve business problems, improve performance, and help turn strategy into action. This mid to senior-level role will independently lead consulting workstreams, structure complex or unclear challenges, analyze information, develop recommendations, and work with stakeholders to implement practical solutions.

The Consultant is expected to bring strong consulting skills, sound judgment, curiosity, and an innovation mindset to help the organization make better decisions and create measurable business value.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Lead consulting engagements and workstreams from discovery through implementation.
• Partner with leaders and employees to define problems, goals, scope, and expected outcomes.
• Gather and analyze business, operational, financial, process, and performance information.
• Turn complex or incomplete information into clear insights and recommendations.
• Develop business cases, roadmaps, future-state approaches, and implementation plans.
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and decision-making discussions.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, operating models, technology, data, automation, and ways of working.
• Challenge assumptions and explore innovative approaches when better solutions may exist.
• Communicate findings, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.
• Coordinate actions across teams and help move recommendations into implementation.
• Track outcomes and help determine whether solutions deliver the intended value.
• Build strong relationships and credibility across departments and levels of the organization.
• Coach teams in structured problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Skills & Capabilities

The ideal candidate demonstrates:

• Strong consulting and structured problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently lead client or business workstreams.
• Ability to take an ambiguous problem and create a clear approach for solving it.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative information.
• Ability to develop a clear point of view and practical recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder-management and relationship-building skills.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with different audiences and levels of leadership.
• Ability to create clear, professional, decision-ready deliverables.
• Strong project and workstream management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, risks, dependencies, and commitments.
• Ability to influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
• Ability to respectfully challenge assumptions and existing approaches.
• Curiosity and willingness to quickly learn unfamiliar business areas.
• Ability to identify opportunities for innovation, automation, analytics, AI, or other technology-enabled solutions.
• Ability to balance creative thinking with practical business needs.
• Initiative, adaptability, accountability, and follow-through.
• Sound judgment, professionalism, and integrity.

Experience & Qualifications

Preferred experience includes:

• 3–5 years of consulting, advisory, strategy, transformation, or related professional services experience.
• Experience independently leading client-facing or internal consulting workstreams.
• Experience structuring and solving complex or ambiguous business problems.
• Experience conducting analysis and translating findings into recommendations.
• Experience developing presentations, business cases, roadmaps, or other decision-support materials.
• Experience facilitating workshops, stakeholder discussions, or working sessions.
• Experience managing stakeholders with differing priorities or perspectives.
• Experience supporting implementation, transformation, or change efforts.
• Experience working across multiple functions or business areas.

Additional experience in one or more of the following is beneficial:

• Strategy
• Business Transformation
• Operational Improvement
• Continuous Improvement
• Business Analysis
• Change Management
• Data Analysis
• Technology Implementation
• Digital Transformation
• Innovation
• Process Improvement

A bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, technology, data, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent relevant consulting experience may also be considered.

Industry experience in construction, electrical contracting, manufacturing, or service may be helpful, but strong consulting experience and the ability to quickly learn the business are more important.

What Success Looks Like

A successful BIS Consultant:

• Becomes a trusted advisor to employees and leaders.
• Independently owns and drives consulting workstreams.
• Brings clarity and structure to complex problems.
• Uses analysis and judgment to develop practical recommendations.
• Communicates a clear point of view.
• Influences stakeholders and builds alignment.
• Turns recommendations into implemented solutions.
• Identifies opportunities for innovation and better ways of working.
• Produces measurable business value.
• Helps teams become stronger problem-solvers.

How we support you

At Cummings, we are motivated by achieving our goals and fostering a strong work ethic. Our environment allows you to take pride in your work, create meaningful connections, and acquire growth-based development skills. We are also committed to providing you with a comprehensive range of benefits aimed at supporting your success both in and outside the workplace and ensuring your security and well-being.

Some of what we have to offer includes

• Health benefits plan to support you, your well-being, and your mental health
• PTO
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Regular team building/employee appreciation activities
• On-site, fully equipped gym and locker room
• In-house training facility
• Weekly Pay

All applicants will be subject to background check and drug screen.Salary commensurate with experience.