Wipro - Consulting Head - Media & Education Vertical

Job title: Vertical Consulting Head - New age, Media & Education

- This career opportunity is with the Consumer Business Unit (CBU) which comprises of 5 industry verticals - Retail, CPG, Travel and N.ME verticals. CBU has been voted the best BU for 2 years in a row. Within CBU, the award-winning and high growth N.ME (New Age, Media & Education or n.me) vertical focuses on Business & IT engagements for leading Media and related organizations around the world. The industry footprint is around a diverse set of sub-verticals including New age businesses,

- Newspaper Publishing, Books & Magazines Publishing, Broadcast, Advertising companies and Education sector.

Job Summary -

- The role holder will define & support driving the domain and process consulting capability of the N.ME Vertical. The role holder will also define differentiated solutions, help and enable opening of new engagements and build the Wipro's consulting business across the vertical.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities will include:

Growth & Margins: 

- Defining a sound business growth strategy built on domain & process consulting strengths. Focus on growing the domain competency to 10% of unit strength with higher billing rates and margins. Help in creating new business opportunities & New business wins (Revenue and Order Book)

Practice Management: 

- Manage a diverse team of geographically distributed Media consulting professionals across different experience levels, including their goals & objectives, mentoring, career planning etc. apart from project level billing, utilizations and allocations

Solutions: 

- Identifying & defining differentiated services and solutions for various process areas within Media industry Competency: Defining & supporting a strong competency/capability-building strategy. Own and manage Media Academy as the one-stop enabling environment for aspiring internal and lateral consultants

Partnerships: 

- Nurture key ecosystem partnerships in key focus areas based on product evaluation/due diligence with the objective of building knowledge and networks e.g. Trade bodies, practitioner forums, industry networks etc. Explore & develop Wipro specific layer/extensions to the core partner offering.

Branding: Creating a strong Wipro Market Positioning - increasing Wipro's mindshare in the Media ecosystem (product companies, analysts and influencers) via thought leadership.

Delivery Capabilities - 

- Strategic thinking

- Analytical thinking & problem solving skills

- Leadership & Interpersonal skills

- Ability to drive & lead the strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients, partners, motivate teams & achieve results

- Ability to drive & lead the strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients, partners, motivate teams & achieve results

- Thought Leadership

- Personal Drive

- Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude, a strong desire to learn and shape one's own career path.

Adaptability & Soft skills.

- 15+ years of industry experience with the past 5 years being in a consulting leadership position, MBA from a premier institute 

is a plus

- Excellent articulation skills and strong executive presence is a must.

- Exposure to IT stack specifically for Media vertical

- Functional expertise in Media specific core processes

- Demonstrated experience of working with Media industry clientele

- Digital technology exposure.

- Experience in one or more of sectors such as New age companies/platforms, Publishing, Advertising, Broadcast and Education.

- Experience or strong exposure to software lifecycles including defining downstream from a consulting engagement

- Ownership in Solution incubation and IP-creation - especially in the Media sector.

- A good mix of experience working in operations and enterprise processes of a technology company

- Good knowledge of the international markets and demand including multiple engagements across geographies

- Experience in consultative selling and creating client business case for value based pitches

Capabilities needed

- Strong delivery Expertise with experience in handling multi shore consulting projects with distributed teams

- Big picture orientation, conceiving effective strategies to drive growth

- Ability to comprehend complex scenarios, propose effective implementation plans & solutions in tackling challenges

- Ability to converse with industry leaders, analysts and formulate POV on trends and proactively propose solutions, investment decisions along with published artifacts, industry speakerships, analyst interactions etc.

- Being flexible & learning to deliver in Wipro environment. Soft skills like Process Management, Program Management and 

Change Management skills critical

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