Project Lead - GCC/GBS Strategy/Advisory

- As Project Lead 2, 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.
- You are also expected to work on 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 :
- Should have GCC/GBS strategy/advisory experience
- 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.