Consulting Professional Development Manager

Consulting Professional Development Manager (remote)

Company Overview
For more than two decades, FoodChain ID has been at the on the forefront of the New Food industry providing expertise worldwide to navigate the requirements of an ever-growing demand for higher levels of transparency, accountability, safety, and sustainability. Our technical and business services include serving clean label, food safety, and sustainability claims through offerings of Non-GMO Project verification, USDA Organic certification, BRC and SQF food safety certification, and more. Today, more than 30,000 companies in over 100 countries rely on our industry-leading solutions. The FoodChain ID vision encompasses nothing less than assuring the safety, transparency, and integrity of the global food chain, one client and product at a time.

Position Summary
The Consulting Professional Development Manager (PDM) is responsible for the professional development, capability readiness, and long-term people health of FoodChain ID’s consulting organization. This role ensures the consulting team can scale predictably by owning recruiting readiness, performance consistency, onboarding effectiveness, and career stewardship across the consulting population.
The PDM does not manage project delivery or delivery outcomes. Instead, the role focuses on building and sustaining a capable, stable consulting workforce by providing consistent people management, professional development, and hiring alignment. This role enables delivery leaders to focus on execution quality while ensuring consultants are supported, deployable, and aligned to business needs.

Specific responsibilities include:

• People Management & Career Stewardship
  • Serve as the primary people manager for consulting staff, owning performance management, feedback, promotion input, and compensation recommendations
  • Provide coaching and guidance focused on effectiveness, skill growth, and long-term role fit
  • Establish and reinforce clear role expectations and success criteria across consulting roles
• Recruiting & Workforce Readiness
  • Own consulting recruiting, including role profiles, hiring plans, and interview consistency
  • Partner with consulting leadership to align hiring to delivery demand and future growth
  • Support onboarding and ensure predictable time-to-productivity for new hires
• Professional Development & Upskilling
  • Own professional development planning and skill readiness across the consulting organization
  • Partner with Practice Leads and Delivery leadership to identify and address capability gaps
• Performance Consistency & Retention
  • Lead fair and consistent performance review processes
  • Monitor engagement and retention risk, intervening early where appropriate
  • Protect stable long-term individual contributor roles and reduce avoidable attrition

Location and travel
This position is remote, but candidates must be within reasonable distance of a major US airport.
Candidates should expect 10-15% travel as meeting team members in person.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in consulting, professional services, or enterprise software environments
• 3+ years in people management, professional development, or consulting leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience overseeing end-to-end delivery of complex software implementations, including scope, schedule, financial performance, risk, and customer satisfaction
• Strong understanding of consulting delivery models and project-based staffing.
• Proven ability to manage performance and career conversations with credibility and fairness.
• Experience partnering with delivery and practice leadership in matrixed organizations.
• Comfortable operating in a matrixed professional services organization, balancing competing priorities and maintaining delivery accountability across teams
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required; advanced degree a plus

EEO Statement
FoodChain ID, Inc. 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, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our Human Resources Department at [email protected].