Associate Director - Delivery Partner - Analytics Consulting - CPG (15-18 yrs)

Delivery Partner - CPG

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad

Level : Associate Director

Notice period : Immediate to 30 days

Required Skills : 5 Years Exp in CPG , Pricing Promotion experience , Trade promotions, Strategic Revenue Management, Strategic Client handling exp, Team size - should have handled at least 20+ folks, Strong Solutioning expertise, Delivery Management

About the role:

As Delivery Partner - Analytics Consulting, you will work on some of the latest applications of AI to solve complex business problems, and demonstrate significant business value to a set of clientele. In doing so, you will closely collaborate with program leads, technology architects and data scientists across global locations. You will guide the project teams to deliver impactful solutions, drive adoption, and articulate value. On a typical work day, you could be doing one or more of the following:

- Collaborate with internal & key client stakeholders to define advanced analytics roadmaps

- Identify a pipeline of programs, prioritized based on business value vs complexity

- Drive analytics solution design & delivery, collaborating with teams of consultants, data scientists and architects.

- Guide / mentor program leads on applying best practices in delivery through regular reviews

- Work towards accelerating time-to-value on client programs, while balancing team health

- Measure and articulate value of solutions to help drive adoption by business teams

- Drive internal and client governance forums for zero surprises on program health and to articulate value

- Collaborate with in-market Client Partners to expand share of client spend in meaningful ways

- Contribute to organization building through training and mentoring, and by developing assets / best practices

Required Skills, Competencies & Experience:

- 15+ yrs experience in delivering advanced analytics solutions or services to clients, which includes a good amount of time as a hands-on practitioner.

- Hands-on experience with (or significant exposure to) commonly used advanced analytic tools & techniques.

- Demonstrated ability to white-board and transform ideas from high level business problem statements to a sufficiently detailed outline of the solution

- Ability to guide teams on developing analytics solution blueprints to client problems which balance business context and technical details

- Ability to analyze pros-and-cons of different analytic options in the context of multitude of business problems, and articulate such choices to technical and business audiences.

- Ability to build compelling stories from data / model outputs to convey insights to business stakeholders, and drive acceptance & adoption of recommended actions.

- Confident in communicating with Director / VP level stakeholders, and demonstrate executive presence in interactions with CXO level stakeholders.

- Ability to drive programs with robust governance mechanisms to ensure programs are reasonably scoped (upfront + evolving), time & effort, cost & value.