Job Title - Lead tech strategic programs and initiatives (SPI)
Job Function - TFO - Delivery
Reports to - Platform and Application Lead
Job Overview
We are looking for a strong tech consulting lead who is who is enthusiastic about demonstrating and driving value of technology in business processes. This role is a new role in the organization, and will be working with senior leadership to understand initiatives and programs, set up a structure to drive across diverse teams and deliver outcomes on time.
Focus areas will include taking on a key objective that could span business analysis, value capture/ realization, people enablement, process redesign. A large part of the role is working with senior leadership and translating their vision into a program or an initiative, set it up with the right governance and drive it to closure.
Main responsibilities
Work with senior TFO leadership to
- Understand the big picture and the objective of a program/initiative
- Determine the details on how to translate that into a plan, with the right stakeholders, budget and schedule
- Convince and sell stakeholders on the objectives, the plan and specifically their actions and dependencies
- Interviews/ discussions with business/ client and other stakeholders to understand expectations and level set on dependencies
- Understand the business value being targeted and identify the critical path that needs to be streamlined to achieve that
- Come up with recommendations that span technology, governance, people and processes to help unblock and address
- Be detail oriented and have sufficient drive to get to the desired outcome
- Be flexible and be able to ideate on alternate approaches to meet the program objectives and be ready with Plan B to ensure continuous progress
- React at short notice to urgent requirements and be able to navigate and stretch to be able to unblock and solve to get to an outcome
- Align with stakeholders to ensure acceptance and readiness
Key Attributes
- Experience in tech consulting roles that are client facing in the business analysis, business blue print, value realization phases
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills.
- Knowledge of IT development processes, high level exposure to devops
- High degree of competency in all phases of project management, including issue and risk identification and management; change management; tracking dependencies and milestones; and communicating overall project status.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively establish and maintain working relationships with all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated analysis and innovative problem solving skills
- Experience working in matrix, multi-functional teams
- Strong interest in being aware of new technologies
- Demonstrated ability to course correct, react fast and get to outcomes
Education
- Masters Degree in Management, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
Core Competencies
- Technology consulting sales or delivery
- Experience navigating with senior stakeholders
- Experience navigating through the influence model with global and extended teams
Preference
- 12+ years in a Top Tier Technology organization / Top tier Consulting firm / Product management environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills
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