Advisory Director Client Relationship Executive Cyber & Risk

Job Description

Grant Thornton is seeking an Advisory Director Client Relationship Executive Cyber & Risk to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below.

Grant Thornton is seeking an Advisory Director Client Relationship Executive (CRE) to accelerate Cyber & Risk growth through deep, trust-based executive relationships, high-impact solution orchestration, and active daily prospecting. This leader serves as a client growth strategist and Advisory deal architect translating complex client needs into integrated, market-facing Advisory solutions and mobilizing cross-functional teams to deliver measurable outcomes. The Cyber & Risk CRE operates at the intersection of solution strategy, pursuit leadership, and executive relationship management shaping how capabilities are packaged, positioned, and activated in the market.

Embedded within the Cyber & Risk solution, this individual is focused on helping clients protect value and enable confident growth through cyber, privacy, compliance, controls, internal audit, and forensic solutions.

Your day-to-day may include:

• Active prospecting & business origination (primary)
• Advisory growth leadership & account strategy
• Pursuit leadership & win strategy
• Market presence & executive connectivity
• Solution specific duties

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in advisory/consulting sales, complex solution selling, or enterprise transformation pursuits with C-suite/board-level buyers
• Demonstrated success building and expanding executive relationships and driving measurable growth outcomes in a matrixed professional services environment
• Strong commercial acumen: qualification discipline, win strategy, pricing, negotiation, and executive storytelling
• Proven ability to translate complex capabilities into clear value propositions and scalable pursuit narratives; comfort operating at the intersection of strategy and go-to-market
• Working knowledge of modern advisory domains (e.g., CFO advisory, business consulting, risk advisory, technology modernization, transactions, AI, outsourcing)
• Experience selling and structuring multi-year programs (including managed services/outsourcing/shared services models) preferred
• Direct experience in professional services firms, with working knowledge of how partner-led, client-service organizations operate
• Advanced communication and presentation skills (executive-level decks, whiteboarding, facilitating decision sessions)
• Experience in risk consulting, cyber/privacy, compliance, internal audit/controls, or governance-related solution selling
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• Travel up to ~25%, variable by portfolio

The total compensation package for this role includes base salary and bonus. The base salary range for this position is between $190,000 and $300,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton's discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

Grant Thornton LLP