Everest Group - Practice Director - Engineering Services - IIM/FMS/MDI/XLRI

About Everest Group :

Confident decisions driven by deep expertise and tenacious research.

Everest Group is a research firm helping business leaders confidently navigate today's market challenges, driving maximized operational and financial performance and transformative experiences. Our deep expertise and tenacious research focused on technology, business processes, and engineering through the lenses of talent, sustainability, and sourcing delivers precise and action-oriented guidance.

For more information, visit www.everestgrp.com.

Key responsibilities -

- Create firm IP that helps clients address strategic business, technology, and sourcing issues within Engineering services space

- Create actionable insights to solve client problems by evaluating and analyzing information collected through interviews, surveys and statistical analyses

- Collaborate with analysts across the company to deliver research that assists clients with addressing strategic global sourcing issues and market trends in the Engineering and R&D services space

- Work closely with Everest Group's sales team to help in closing and delivering engagements on issues of strategic sourcing and operations

- Communicate and interact at the executive level with major engineering service providers and recipients of global services, to address their strategic business issues, analyze their offerings, strategy, positioning, and predict the changing dynamics of the market

- Develop a strong external reputation by networking with clients, service providers and analysts, participating in research meetings and other public forums, and publishing leading edge research-based reports, whitepapers, and articles

Education & experience-

We are seeking a high caliber individual to maintain our exceptional standards. This person should have:

- 6-9 years of experience in a professional services environment (Management Consulting/ Business Research)

- Global sourcing, ER&D or Engineering services advisory firms

- Global sourcing, ER&D or Engineering services focused teams within management consulting firms

- Consulting organizations within Tier 1 ER&D or Engineering service providers

- Experience in building and evaluating business case models for technology adoption and sourcing transformation scenarios

- Understanding and a keen interest in engineering, technology and outsourcing issues will be required

- Strong relationship orientation, and experience in working across an ecosystem of internal functions (e.g., sales, marketing, other service lines)

- Strong executive presence and presentation skills

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Collaborative work style; strong interpersonal and team skills

- MBA from a premium school