Advisory Director Client Relationship Executive Cyber & Risk at Grant Thornton LLP

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.