Cognitud - Tech Strategy AI/Gen AI Strategy Manager - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS (8-12 yrs)

Tech StrategyAI / Gen AI Strategy Manager.

Domain: Strategy & Consulting.

Position: AI /GEN AI Strategy -Manager.

Experience:- 8 to 12yrs.

Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon/Mumbai/Pune/Chennai/Hyderabad.

Your Team:

As a leading global professional services company, you are invited to join a vibrant team and explore a diverse range of opportunities in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations.

You will be a part of a collaborative environment that combines unmatched experience and specialized skills across 40+ industries.

This leading enterprise, at the intersection of business and technology, is dedicated to helping clients enhance performance and create sustainable value for stakeholders.

Your Job:

- Leverage your knowledge of technology trends across Data and AI and how they can be applied to address real world problems and opportunities.

- Interact with client stakeholders to understand their AI problems, priority use-cases, define a problem statement, understand the scope of the engagement, and also drive projects to deliver value to the client Design & guide development of Enterprise-wide AI & Gen AI strategy for our clients.

- Through your expertise and experience, guide your team to suggest the right solutions to meet the needs of clients and help draw up practical implementation road maps that position them for long-term success Benchmark against global research benchmarks and leading industry peers to understand current & recommend AI & Gen AI solutions Conduct discovery workshops and design sessions to elicit AI & Gen AI opportunities & client pain areas.

- Utilize strong expertise & certification in any of the AI & Gen AI Cloud platforms - Google, Azure or AWS, in areas such as Machine Learning, NLP, Generative AI etc.

- 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.

- Have a deep understanding of the Responsible AI & Gen AI framework as well as tools to engage the client in meaningful discussions and steer towards the right recommendation.

- Define an AI use case driven value realization framework and define business cases relevant to the client industry Create expert content and use advanced presentation, public speaking, content creation and communication skills for C-Level discussions.

- Demonstrate strong understanding of a specific industry, client or technology and function as an expert to advise senior leadership.

- Manage budgeting and forecasting activities and build financial proposals.

Your Capabilities:

- MBA from a tier 1 institute.

- 7 - 10 years of Strategy Consulting experience at a consulting firm.

- 3+ years of experience writing business cases (quantitative and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives or Data & AI transformation.

- 4+ years of experience in designing and building end-to-end Enterprise AI and Gen AI Strategic Solutions using Cloud & Non-Cloud platforms like Google Vertex and Gemini, Azure AI, Open AI, Co-Pilot, Amazon Bedrock, IBM Watson, DataRobot etc.

- Excellent understanding of Traditional AI, Gen AI, Agentic AI and Advanced Cognitive methods to derive insights and actions.

- Good working knowledge in formulation of relevant guiding principles and platform components with expertise in Responsible AI frameworks is highly preferred.

- 3+ years of experience leading or managing large teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing Data & AI strategy recommendations as well as developing POCs.

- Deep Understanding of data supply chain and building value realization framework for Data & AI transformations.

- Mandatory knowledge of IT & Enterprise architecture concepts through practical experience and knowledge of technology trends e.

Mobility, Cloud, Digital, Collaboration.

- A strong understanding in any of the following industries is preferred: Financial Services, Retail, Consumer Goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources or equivalent domains.

- Cloud AI Practitioner Certifications (Azure, AWS, Google) desirable but not essential.

- Qualifications: MBA.

- Skills: Data & AI, Traditional AI, Gen AI, Agentic AI, Enterprise AI, Gen AI, AI frameworks.