Manager - IT Advisory - Program Management - Big4

Your key responsibilities

- Participate in and, as required, act as project management lead on engagements;

- Ensure all project deliverables are managed to time, cost and quality;

- Manage financial aspects of client engagements and communicate significant issues, fees, and estimates to partners and clients;

- Build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers to assist partners and directors with generating new business opportunities;

- Provide a supporting role in presentations and proposals for elements of medium to highly complex projects to potential and existing clients;

- Drawing on your skills and experience, you will create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

- Create clear, concise, high-quality work products, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems.

- Communicate effectively with EY engagement partners and managers and work to build, manage and motivate high-performing teams, and help key staff to build sustainable competencies.

Engagement responsibilities include :

- Work confidently with clients, and building 'trusted advisor' relationships;

- Deliver and manage large scale transformation programmes and projects to time, cost and quality within appropriate governance frameworks;

- Solve business and technology issues through collaboration and teaming;

- Apply knowledge and experience to shape services to clients and present project outputs via concise, high quality work products with limited direction;

- Assist in managing the financial aspects of engagements by organising staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders;

- Understand all our service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients;

- Build strong internal relationships within Advisory and across other services lines.

People responsibilities include:

- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff;

- Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff;

- Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training professionals;

- Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills;

- Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures.

You will have knowledge and experience in a number of the following areas:

- At least 5 years within a blue chip consulting firm, industry or government organisation (strong track record in consulting is highly desirable);

- Experience of managing complex projects and programmes (managing a budget of - 2m on projects);

- Senior stakeholder management and communication experience;

- Demonstrable experience in change management;

- Managing and working in a Project Management Office (PMO) and implementation of project governance;

- Proven experience in business development;

- Strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or project related area;

Prince2, PMP or equivalent certification;

Skills and attributes for success

- In-depth understanding of the economic and business environment

- Expertise in two or more of the areas listed - Procurement / Manufacturing / Supply Chain / Sales and Marketing / Strategy / Finance

- Professional network and networking skills

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Good leadership qualities

- Client relationship management and account management skills. Experience in handling mid to large-size accounts

- Program management, multi-tasking and time management skills

- Good experience in business development

- Excellent people management skills

- Sharp focus on quality delivery

- Ability to develop / customize solutions relevant to client

- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Word, Power Point

- Also, additionally

- Flexible to adopt to a demanding lifestyle

- Able to thrive in relatively unstructured situations

- High initiative and drive, positive attitude and high commitment

- Maturity and ability to handle pressure

To qualify for the role you must have

- A bachelor's degree in an Engineering (B.E./B.Tech.), Business, Supply Chain or Logistics discipline or CA + Master's degree (MBA- preferably from a premier institute such as IIMs, NITIE, SP Jain, XLRI, ISB, FMS etc.), supported by other professional qualifications

- 9-12 years of relevant post MBA experience within a consulting environment (preferably) or Industry background (Business excellence / functional role) with significant expertise in at least three of the areas listed - Business transformation, Business process Re-engineering, Market assessment, Post-merger integration, Strategy and Business planning, Sales and Marketing improvement / transformation, Strategic Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Management / transformation

- An existing network of industry contacts

- A record of excellence in providing advisory services across at least three of the supply chain areas listed - Business transformation, Business process Re-engineering, Market assessment, Post-merger integration, Strategy and Business planning, Sales and Marketing improvement / transformation, Strategic Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Management / transformation

- Strong analytical skills and business insight, as well as the ability to increase revenue and develop new prospects

- Practical knowledge of selling and providing assessment, design and execution support

Anshu Mittal