Job Description

This career opportunity within our career framework is at Senior Manager level and is for the CIO Advisory consulting business unit. The role as a Senior Manager is focussed on supporting key aspects of offering capabilities from the CIO Advisory practice on client pursuits and projects. The role also includes playing a leading role in the development of current offerings from the CIO Advisory practice. 

This role is expected to be knowledgable in one or more of the following competencies:
•    IT’s alignment with the Business
o    Artificial Intelligence (AI) Business Case and adoption
o    ERP Business Case and Business process change
o    Technology sustainability and the ability for IT to support the business’ sustainability goal
•    IT Operating Models
o    Technology organization organizational design and operating model with the business and managed services vendors
o    Technology merger and acquisition / divestiture planning and financial management
•    IT Spend Optimization
o    Technology Business Management  / IT Finance and cost transparency operations
o    Technology cost optimization
•    Simplification and modernization of technology
o    Technology modernization business case and technology strategy assessments / roadmaps
o    Enterprise data quality improvement and data governance 
o    Enterprise program management with content driven tools and accelerators

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Our Senior Manager is expected to build and curate mid to senior level relationships at clients, demonstrate vendor partnership capabilities on joint go-to-market initiatives. Additionally the Senior Manager is expected to demonstrate the ability to collaborate with Wipro’s Account Executives on positioning specific offerings and capabilities based on client needs

Responsibilities 

•    Growth: Focus onsupporting and leading client pursuits and owning the proposals in their entirety
•    Relationships: As a Senior Manager,  the technology organization in one or more industries. 
•    Offerings: Substantially contributing to the development of, and supporting the maintenance of the CIO Advisory practice’s offerings and capabilities
•    Customer Centricity: Delivering customer value as a central theme across all activities. Ensuring you are seen as a trusted advisor to clients and aligned to client/customer value and strategic goals.  
•    Thought Leadership: Support the development of thought leadership and support the practice’s leadership develop value propositions
•    Team leadership: You are expected to coach junior staff in the CIO Advisory practice. Your responsibilities include acting as a career coach, helping staff develop rounded core consulting skills and be the leader that staff want to work with.

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5-Habits for Success at Wipro
•    Being Respectful - Treat others how you want to be treated.
•    Being Responsive - Acknowledge, commit and respond within reasonable timeframes.
•    Always Communicating - Ensure information flows (including difficult news) in a timely, proactive and consistent manner.
•    Demonstrate Stewardship – Put the interest of Wipro ahead of everything else.
•    Building Trust - Demonstrate a high say-do ratio in everything you do without externalizing failures.

Skills and Qualifications

Sell & Deliver 
    Lead a small to medium project team through all phases of the project lifecycle, including: scoping and planning, hypothesis/framework development, strategy analysis, consulting analysis and recommendations 
    Strong leadership skills, precise communication, strong interpersonal relationship building and networking skills for both internal Wipro staff AND clients 
    Good critical thinking skills, ability to get to the root of the problem quickly
    Ability to construct presentation slides that are effective in conveying the intended message and visually pleasing to a high level of standard. Additionally, candidate needs to have the ability to present the information effectively to the audience.
    Delivery and program expertise with experience in handling multi shore consulting projects with distributed teams delivering sustainable customer value.
    Know-how to comprehend complex scenarios, propose effective implementation plans & solutions in tackling challenges
Driving Transformation
    Ability to probe customers, engage in conversations to uncover the underlying problems and shape the challenges into structured problem statements
    Comes with a good level of transformation proposition definition and engagement shaping using core and disruptive technologies to solve business problems for tangible business benefits at large enterprise clients
    Ability to drive and lead the strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients, partners, motivate teams and achieve results
    Good understanding of technology ecosystems, their relationship to business processes and 
Talent Management
    Has some experience of nurturing, developing, mentoring of top talent into future consulting business leaders
    Supports in the delivery of our organisational people strategy with strong collaboration from HR and Recruitment leads
    Proactively seeks opportunities to attract top diverse talent at all levels
    Highly adaptable in dynamic environments and integrates effectively into a global matrix environment 

Thought Leadership 
    Strong desire to learn and shape your own career path
    Ability to converse with industry leaders, analysts and formulate POV on trends
    Proactively propose solutions, investment decisions along with published artifacts, industry speakerships, analyst interactions etc

We value a diverse range of backgrounds & ideas and believe this is fundamental for our future success. So, if you have a strong foundation of capabilities aligned with our offering areas, curiosity to learn and the willingness to teach what you know, we'd love to hear from you.