Manager - Global Technology Consulting - IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Qualifications: -

MBA Degree from Tier-1/ Tier-2 College (Preferable)

Responsibilities: Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise- strategic, industry, functional, technical- in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities.

- Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

- Identifying a client's high-level business needs and leading the creation of detailed functional specs and other documentation, such as requirement traceability matrices, work-flow diagrams and use-cases

- Designing new business processes based on customer requirements and conduct user review sessions and run stakeholder agreement meetings applying thought leadership in leading the transformation

- Driving enterprise business, application and integration architecture

- Helping solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a - to-be- enterprise environment

- Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes

- Assisting our clients to build the required capabilities for growth and innovation in order to sustain high performance

- Managing multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate and implement programs

- Developing our offerings and assets

- Mentoring and developing our people

Experience: Loooking for Advanced Analytics and AI Managers having experience with Machine learning and NLP applications. Operating across all stages of the innovation spectrum, with a remit to build the future in real-time.

- Assessment: Works as part of multi-disciplinary teams and responsible for independently driving specific AI workstreams through collaboration with designers, other analytics team members, platform engineers, business subject matter experts and technology delivery teams to assess AI potential and develop use cases. Liaises effectively with global community and senior leadership to identify and drive value opportunities around AI, support investments in POCs, pilots and chargeable projects.

- Design: The Manager's role on these projects centers around independently executing workstreams around the application of analytics, data science and advanced cognitive methods to derive insights from data and develop POCs and appropriate high-level solution designs.

- Architecture: The nature of these projects change as ideas and concepts mature, ranging from research, proofs-of-concept and the art-of-the-possible to the delivery of real-world applications for our clients. Focus in this area is on the impact to clients technology landscape/ architecture and ensuring formulation of relevant guiding principles and platform components.

- Product/ Framework/ Tools evaluation: Collaborate with business experts for business understanding, working with other consultants and platform engineers for solutions and with technology teams for prototyping and client implementations. Evaluate existing products and frameworks available and develop options for proposed solutions. Have an understanding of the framework/ tools to engage the client in meaningful discussions and steer towards the right recommendation.

- The Manager should have practical industry expertise. The areas of Financial Services, Retail, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Mining and Resources are of interest but experience in equivalent domains is also welcomed. Consultants should understand the key technology trends in their domain and the related business implications.

- Experience in working with large UK&I clients (Preferred)

Key Competencies and Skills: 

- Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation

- The ability to lead specific AI workstreams to develop technology solutions and value adding propositions and take these to market.

- Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.

- Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains

- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders

- Team oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization.

- Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward thinking view of the market.

- Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships

- Proven track record in working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

- Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment with effective consulting skills

- Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement

- Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team.

- Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements