Global Practice Head - Communications (Tele+) Industry Consulting

Company: Wipro Technologies
Location: New Brunswick
Posted on: November 8, 2024

Job Description:

Overview & ResponsibilitiesWipro empowers companies to transform their business and deliver superior experiences for their customers, partners, and employees. Our Domain and Consulting (D&C) team is at the heart of this. With an entrepreneurial mindset and a sense of fun, we thoughtfully evaluate clients' problems; craft innovative solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies; and work side-by-side with clients to drive business outcomes. Wipro D&C is a proactive force of change, a true partner in our clients' transformation, and a uniquely powerful group that combines strategic counsel with technical excellence. Our people are the tip-of-the-spear driving change, come join us!Job SummaryThis role will lead the Domain & Consulting's Communications consulting practice to build on existing capabilities and deliver significant regional and global growth and scale. The primary expectation is to grow the practices portfolio of services, strategic accounts, and C-level relationships whilst leveraging our wider Wipro services. Additionally, you will be a key partner in driving the business strategy of the Communications business, with other leaders across the practices globally.Responsibilities

• Grow and deliver:
  • Defining a sound business growth strategy. Focus on growing the consulting business contribution to 15%+ of Comms strength.
  • Ensure the consulting business opens new business opportunities and expands Wipro's client positioning.
  • Big picture orientation, conceiving effective strategies to drive growth for the vertical.
  • Delivery and program expertise with experience in handling multi-shore consulting projects with distributed teams.
  • Ability to drive & lead the strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients, partners, motivate teams & achieve results.
  • Transform and innovate:
    • Significant transformation proposition definition and engagement shaping using core and disruptive business strategies and technologies to solve business problems with clear business benefits.
    • Proven track record in growing as well as sustaining and growing client account revenues through existing and new consulting engagements.
    • Deep understanding of innovative customer models, products, services and business re-platforming strategies.
    • Practice Leadership:
      • Manage a diverse team of geographically distributed consulting professionals across different experience levels, including their goals & objectives, mentoring, career planning etc.
      • Defining & supporting a strong competency/capability-building strategy.
      • Thought Leadership:
        • Ability to converse with industry leaders, analysts and formulate POV on trends and proactively propose solutions, investment decisions along with published artifacts, industry speakerships, analyst interactions etc.
        • Creating a strong Wipro Market Positioning - increasing Wipro's mindshare in the communications and media industries ecosystem (product companies, analysts and influencers).
        • Solutions:
          • Identifying & defining differentiated services and solutions for various process areas within the Comms sector.
          • Partnerships:
            • Nurture key ecosystem partnerships in key focus areas based on product evaluation/due diligence with the objective of building knowledge and networks.Qualifications
              • Experience leading, growing and delivering in a global, fast-growing consulting business in communications domains.
              • Relevant leadership experience working as an SME in the Communications capability within a consulting and or industry organization.
              • Clear understanding of the various services for B2C & B2B segments from an End-to-end perspective across legacy & new age technologies - Telco Cloud, SDN/NFV, LTE, 5G, Edge Computing, Network Automation, Orchestration, Security, Analytics.
              • Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude, a strong desire to learn and shape one's own career path.
              • Ownership in Solution incubation and IP-creation.
              • Good knowledge of the international market and demand including multiple engagements across geographies.
              • Experience in consultative selling and creating client business case for value-based pitches.
              • Outstanding leadership, communication, relationship building and networking skills across clients, partners and your internal organization.
              • Ability to develop and build a public profile with the media and press in addition to speaking at external seminars.
              • Creative and motivating consulting leader that can gel diverse teams to common outcomes.
              • Gravitas to engage and grow relationships with senior business and clients.
              • Exemplary professional and corporate image.
              • Highly adaptable in dynamic environments.
              • Integrates effectively into a global matrix environment.
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