- As an Engage Fi employee, you can expect:
- To work with an amazing and collaborative team
- To create and innovate in your role and see the impact you make on the business and client experience
- To be a part of an award-winning team – Inc. 500 (2018), Inc. 5000 (2019, 2021, 2022, 2024), Tampa Bay Business Journal Fast 50 (2021, 2023, 2024), Great Place to Work (2023, 2024)
- All employees to cultivate and encourage new ideas and thrive on a fun and productive work environment
- To join a highly engaged workforce that supports personal and professional growth, empowerment, and lives by servant leadership
- Competitive pay, incentive programs, 401k matching
- Unlimited time off plus 11 paid holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision health plans with FSA or HSA options
- Opportunities to volunteer and give back to the communities we serve
- Paid remote work expenses
- Career development, trainings, continuous learning, and employee recognition
- Team engagement events and activities
- Culture of growth and continuous improvement
- A great place to work!
Engage fi was founded on the principle of putting ourselves in our clients’ shoes to understand their needs, their business objectives, and their definition of success. What sets us apart from other options is our focus on the client, and a little bit more: more transparency, more innovation, more savings, more incentives, more fun, more collaboration. We take pride in our people, process, and tools guaranteeing that your experience with engage fi will surpass your expectations. Our emphasis on the education, efficiency, and effectiveness needed to drive the growth of our industry will align to the needs of the consumer and your internal team. Our collective experience working for and with vendors and financial institutions in the past gives us tremendous insight into the capabilities of the vendors that our clients work with. We aim to leverage our knowledge and tools to save time, improve efficiency, and provide the pricing leverage the financial institution needs.
With over 450 years of industry experience, the team at Engage fi is a blend of consultants, educators, matchmakers, integrators, and advocates. We are laser-focused on guiding financial institutions through our proven process and enabling them to make informed, timely decisions on vendor relationships so they can change at the speed of the consumer. Engage fi has completed over 525 strategic projects for financial institutions and negotiated over $2.2 billion in savings and incentives for our clients. We have a unique approach, and our strategic projects are as unique as the clients we serve. Let’s Engage! www.engagefi.com
The Strategic Consultant provides guidance, expertise, and support to Engage fi clients by engaging as a strategic partner and acting as a subject matter expert (SME) in the evaluation, selection, and negotiation of critical bank and credit union solutions, including but not limited to core banking and related systems, vendors, and solutions.
Client Relationship Management –
- Builds and maintains strong relationships with clients by uncovering and analyzing client needs, providing and recommending solutions, and guiding the process with internal key stakeholders to achieve clients’ goals and objectives.
Project Oversight –
- Oversees complex client projects and applies Engage fi and industry best practices to execute on client strategies and implement project tactics to mitigate risk and ensure success.
- Works with the project team and other EFI team members as needed to develop, customize, and maintain key project artifacts, such as RFPs and project timelines.
- Maintains scope, schedule, and budget of projects, ensuring work is completed according the to the plan/statement of work (SOW).
- Facilitates project workshops, vendor sessions, and other critical project events and communications, chairs project meetings, and provides SME guidance to ensure project tasks are completed in a suitable and timely manner and risks, gaps, and issues are appropriately tracked, addressed, and escalated.
Vendor Relationship Management and Knowledge –
- Develops and sustains relationships with key strategic vendors, studies and evaluates financial industry market trends, participates in solution demos, and remains abreast of vendor changes, key competitors, and key system updates and overall functionality in order to effectively and appropriately apply knowledge and insight to client projects.
- Represents client’s and Engage fi’s best interests in all vendor interactions.
Contract Review and Negotiation –
- Evaluates client’s current invoices and existing contracts to capture relevant business terms, dates, and pricing. Requests and evaluates new vendor pricing and contract terms based on client’s strategies for vendor selection and unique business needs and presents an initial pricing and contract baseline analysis to client.
- Works with client, client’s legal representative, vendors, and EFI team members to negotiate suitable pricing and contract terms, devising strategies to increase revenue, cut costs, and promote growth for the client while also ensuring alignment with the client’s goals and objectives and monitoring the long-term effects of vendor and pricing changes.
- Other Duties & Responsibilities:
- Acts as subject matter expert to assist in process review, improvement, and implementation in all areas of the company, including assisting in the development and enhancement of EFI best practice project artifacts/tools and integrating the use of technology into processes to gain efficiencies and add value for internal and external stakeholders.
- Accurately tracks and records project billing hours and budgets as directed in the appropriate technology/tool.
- Mentors and trains other Engage fi team members as assigned to assist with learning best practices and processes.
