Zinnov - Principal - Practice Development/Project Delivery

Principal

Zinnov :

- Founded in 2002, Zinnov - meaning Zeal in Innovation.

- A leading Management Consulting firm that helps organizations globalize their businesses, tackle organizational challenges & build institutional capability its mission is to become a Leading Global Management Consulting Firm.

- At Zinnov, we work in tandem with our clients to tackle organizational challenges, improve performance and build institutional capability.

- With advanced reasoning and analytical techniques, Zinnov provides customers with solutions that help in integrating organizational vision, business definition and processes.

- Zinnov's key service offerings span across globalization of technology, People Practice and Market Expansion into growth markets, thereby creating a niche for ourselves in the industry today.

Besides a huge opportunity to learn and grow in a dynamic environment, Zinnov offers :

- A challenging and stimulating work environment.

- Considerable opportunities for learning new techniques, exposure to work in different sectors and domains.

- A friendly working environment which allows employees to grow professionally and build a rewarding career.

- Like Minded Intellectually Curious Colleagues.

- High Paced Learning.

- Continuous Mentorship to help Achieve professional goals.

Overview of Globalization Excellence Team :

We partner with organizations through :

- Global Centers of Excellence (GCoEs) have been identified as critical growth engines in the process of a company transformation.

- Zinnov collaborates with businesses to gain access to the greatest global talent by developing Centers of Excellence equipped with cutting-edge infrastructure, impactful human resource policies, and a partner ecosystem that fosters cutting-edge innovation.

Global Centers of Excellence :

- We assist our customers in setting up a center that spans the whole value chain, from strategy to implementation.

Globalization Advisory :

- We collaborate with over 200+ technology customers to bring in best-in-class practices, leveraging our two decades of experience in Globalization advisory.

- Globalisation Advisory is a sub-practice within Globalisation Excellence practice of Zinnov.

- This team primarily focuses on providing strategy advice for enterprise customers to help them make business decisions around setting up the global capability centers, sourcing strategies, portfolio optimisation etc.

- The team primarily works on building business case and providing guidance for insourcing.

Job Objective :

- As a Principal, you will be closely working with the Management Team for practice development, project delivery for the clients across various industry sectors.

- You will need to work with the project team to provide data-driven and analysis-rich deliverables deriving strategic insights as per the client requirements.

- Principals are also expected to workon business development activities and provide thought leadership.

- Possess subject matter knowledge to lend additional credibility and add value at all stages and levels.

Job Overview :

- You would typically be working on multiple projects and responsible for end-to-end project delivery.

- You will be working closely with your project teams to guide them to conduct in-depth secondary research and primary research, apply analysis techniques and derive interesting and meaningful insights for our clients.

Primary Responsibilities :

Leadership :

- Collaborate with client's global departments, leadership, and key stakeholders to assess current state operations and establish future state business process and technology road maps.

- Assist the client in in setting attainable project goals for established solutions.

- Build relationships with stakeholders and internal teams, engage in daily problem solving, resolve ambiguous issues, monitor risks, and bridge communication between project teams, business units, and leadership.

- Work with cross-functional team members as needed in a leadership, management, or hands on capacity.

- Create/use project documents, established best practices and regulatory guidelines to prepare and present optimal business process and technology solution options to stakeholders and leadership.

Strategy and Consulting :

- Assist clients with business/technology strategies based on priorities, budget, cost analysis, current state, and future needs.

- Assist leadership in balancing technology timelines to align with vision, constraints, and risks.

- incorporate new system(s) and optimize business processes using best practices approaches.

- Provide implementation expertise and assist in establishing global roll out strategies, postproduction operations and/or global shared services centers.

- Provide guidance and resource planning estimates for all phases of project.

- Facilitate the establishment of employee and stakeholder engagement strategies.

- Create strategies, manage, and execute change management initiatives for large, complex Global Technology Transformation projects spanning multiple divisions and using best practices.

- Extensive experience managing and administering change on projects with multiple stakeholders.

Business Development and Solutions :

- Contribute extensively to the business development process, support sales teams in closing deals by participating in client calls and pitching solution.

- Design solutions based on client's requirements; define engagement structure including resource requirements, project travel, effort estimates and proposal pricing strategies.

- Responding to RFPs, generating leads, building proposals, Events, etc.

Practice and Organizational Development :

- Assist in development and building of the practice team.

- Collaborate with senior management in development and enhancement of knowledge nuggets and thought pieces, methodologies and frameworks, website content development, etc.

- Also build sales collaterals such as whitepapers and capability decks.

People Management :

- You would be typically working with Principals/Partners for Project Delivery to deliver projects end to end.

- Lead and motivate all resources in the team, help them in coaching and skill sets buildings, including practice specific training and development initiatives.

- Coach team with respect to conducting primary and/or secondary research and validate findings of team members.

Required Skills & Personal Attributes :

- Extremely detail-oriented with high standards for written and visual presentation of information as well as idea.

- Excellent research, analytical, and numerical skills.

- Ability to develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis.

- Should be hands-on with exceptional execution/delivery capabilities.

- Process orientation and high level of comfort with usage as well as customization of Technology tools.

- The candidate should be able to work on client engagements at all levels including CXO levels.

- Self-driven with a high level of motivation and energy a strong 'can do' ability and willingness to work in a small and fast-growing set-up.

- Ability to pro-actively identify ways to contribute to firm's goals & mission.