Managing Consultant

Service Line - Domain & Consulting - CIO Advisory

Role

Managing consultant is a senior role in the consulting organization which reports directly to a consulting partner.

They have key result areas associated with all four aspects of consulting i.e. Deliver, Sell, Thought Leadership and Practice Development. Managing consultants are Partners in the making.

They are expected to establish a brand for themselves in the organization, client community and industry and grow into Partner roles.

Typical day in a life of a managing consultant includes the following activities:

• Assessing IT maturity and benchmarking
• Creating strategic IT vision to better support organizational priorities
• Defining IT and Digital strategies, roadmaps and business cases for effecting IT vision / Digital transformation and aligning to recent business changes (e.g. Mergers and Acquisitions, Demergers, Business expansion etc.)
• Building IT operating models to align with the defined IT strategy and recent business changes
• Developing IT architecture strategies to support the technology strategy
• Driving IT cost transparencies, chargebacks and identifying initiatives to optimize IT costs
• Assessing and managing IT risks and technology debt
• Accelerating transformation through established technologies such as Cloud, Data and Analytics and emerging technologies such as AI, Automation and Gen AI
• Program managing the strategic IT initiatives to realize value from the developed strategies
• Driving interactions with key client and internal stakeholders
• Supporting data collection, analysis and insight relay to client teams
• Collaborating with other members in the engagement team and global teams to meet contractual commitments as part of the consulting statement of work
• Mentoring and lead junior consultants on best practices
• Developing high quality consulting deliverables and reports
• Enabling business development activities by participating in proposals and other go to market initiatives
• Enabling practice development activities by participating in collateral / accelerator development, building thought leadership and enabling hiring activities

5-Habits for Success at Wipro

• Being Respectful, this requires that you treat others how you want to be treated
• Being Responsive, this requires that you always acknowledge, commit and respond within reasonable timeframes
• Always Communicating, this requires that you ensure information flows (including difficult news) in a timely, proactive and consistent manner
• Demonstrate Stewardship, this requires that you put the interest of Wipro ahead of everything else (business unit / team / self)
• Building Trust, this require that you demonstrate a high say-do ratio in everything you do without externalizing failures.

Attributes we are seeking

• Experience working in consulting setups in senior roles
• Object oriented, structured along with a strong problem solving ability, in addition to a proven track record to driving results
• Strong understanding & expertise in information technology and its implications and applications to solve business problems
• Ability to understand of one or more industry domains, value chain and associated challenges
• Ability to sift through information/data, assimilate, analyze and build a point of view
• Excellence in strategic orientation, analytical problem solving and effective communications
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Go-getter attitude and being outcome oriented
• Self-guided attitude- Ability to succeed in a professional environment where goals & objectives may not always be well-defined.
• Qualified candidates will understand how to produce results when working in challenging & ambiguous environments and/or new business areas.