Head - Consulting & Digital Solution - Automotive Domain

Job Description - Head of Automotive Domain Consulting and Digital Solution (1800004205)

Head of Automotive Domain Consulting and Digital Solution - (1800004205)

Description : 

- Guiding automotive vertical leadership team in setting the domain consulting and digital led growth strategy for the vertical, identifying strengths/weaknesses, new areas of digital and consulting opportunity, bring outside-in strategic perspective of industry shifts, digital led disruptions and major technology trends and their implications on Go-to-market strategies and define go-to-market approaches around the major trends/shifts/big bets

- Leading the domain led consulting practice in building core functional and business process competencies, groom strong consulting team to be able to drive client facing consulting engagements with high level of business impact, help open new doors in existing and new hunting accounts, and follow on solutions implementation / systems integration downstream revenues

- Manage the Sales and Revenue targets for Digital and Domain consulting and track the monthly performance and report to management.

- Building and manage a strong network externally with strategic and automotive vertical specific software product and other technology partners with strong cloud, digital, AI, cyber security and analytics capabilities. Develop geo wise account focused strategic partnerships and go-to-market alliances for driving partner enabled growth

- Actively assist sales pursuits and pre-sales efforts on RFP/RFX bids for client opportunities through the domain consulting and digital practice team and focus on winning/converting the opportunities

Qualifications : 

Expertise & experience required:

- Extensive automotive/discrete manufacturing consulting expertise with client facing exposure to leading Fortune 500 / Global 2000 companies in USA, Germany, France, Japan etc preferably with consulting and program management experience with automotive OEMs and/or tier-1 suppliers

- Needs to have strong domain expertise and business process experience in at least 3 of the areas - product - development, purchasing & supply chain management, manufacturing, marketing, sales, aftersales service & warranty, connected vehicle telematics

- Overall experience in IT consulting services, and systems integration of at least 15 years

- Experience of program management of multiple medium to large size teams with consulting led systems integration engagements

- Exposure and/or awareness/certification in at least two of the below leading technology vendor solutions/platforms

- SAP (ECC, Hybris, S/4 HANA)

- Salesforce (Sales cloud, Marketing cloud, Service cloud)

- Pega BPM and CRM

- ADOBE

- MS Azure

- Amazon Web Services

- Exposure and/or awareness to at least two of the below skills/competencies

- Design thinking

- Agile/DevOps

- AI (Machine Learning/Deep learning)

Industry 4.0

- Demonstrable ability of authoring/publishing technical white papers, conference speaking sessions, Point of Views

- Evidence of at least two published white papers, or PoVs, or conference speaking sessions during the past 12 months

Education credentials expected: Master of Business Administration or Masters in Engineering or Computer Science.