Head/Regional Head - Analytics - IT Services Firm

Looking for a Head of Analytics (Regional) for a large IT services company.

Role:

- You will work with Sales/Customer success teams to develop the regional growth strategy and execute the growth plans (be accountable for revenue targets).

- You will work on proposals across Analytics and Data and create a differentiating story that helps us win projects in a competitive setup

- You will leverage your financial acumen to optimize cost and deliver these projects/programs with healthy margins (own profitability).

- You will own the delivery of multiple client accounts in your region and ensure top-notch execution to delight your clients.

- You will act as an advisor/consultant to your clients enabling them on their Analytics journey and supporting them on various BigData and Analytics initiatives.

- You will be responsible for building highly engaged teams and also work on acquiring top talent.

- As a thought leader, you will enable building IPs that enable us to strengthen our competitive advantage.

For you to be successful, you must:

- Be a thought leader

- Demonstrate strong consultative skills

- Lead and influence large teams of Data engineers and analyst

- Have the razor-sharp focus on execution

- Be comfortable working in ambiguous environments with unstructured problems

- Professional agility and strategic thinking

You'll bring this to the table:

- Have successfully led large client relationships and managed a P&L of $5-10MM and demonstrated sound financial acumen to deliver target margins.

- Successfully managed and won large and complex Data/Analytics proposals.

- Demonstrate deep consulting skills to solve complex business problems using Data and Analytics.

- Proven expertise in delivering

- Analytics programs using sound statistical approaches in R/Python

- Big Data programs across technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Spark, Scala, Kafka, Pig, NoSQL, Cassandra, etc), ETL tools (KNIME, Alteryx, Paxata, Informatica, etc) and implementation on-prem and on the cloud (Azure/AWS)

- Strong Data visualization experience (Tableau, PowerBI, QlikView, QlikSense or Spotfire)

- Demonstrated thought leadership in the field of Analytics.

- Expertise in any one domain (Sales and Marketing or Supply chain)

- Deep practical knowledge of running Agile programs.

- Extremely good executive presence.

- Build and led diverse teams of 50-100 people based across multiple locations.

It would be exceptional if you also have:

- Experience in applied machine learning techniques using supervised, unsupervised or natural language processing frameworks

- Ability to apply design thinking principles

- Depth in any of the following industries (HiTech, Retail/CPG, BFSI, Utilities or Pharma)