Practice Head - Business Intelligence & Analytics - IT

LoB head - Business Intelligence & Analytics

Responsible for growth, profitability and delivery of Business Intelligence Line of Business. A delivery leader capable of managing multiple projects and be responsible for its P&L. Key responsibilities are to manage and engage client teams to understand, define and develop data-driven solutions to meet the needs of clients

Role :

- Formulate and implement short and long term strategies for the growth of the business

- Responsible for creating annual plans for the Business in coordination with Sales

- Responsible for estimate, size and structure proposals and service contracts

- Risk mitigation and planning contingency for all projects within the business unit.

- Build strong relationships with the customers in order to maintain revenue growth.

- Work closely with the Solutions team to build customized solutions, pitches and driving the revenues and delivery of these solutions

- Client delivery assurance: ensure that the projects are executed according to client expectations within the parameters of the terms of contract.

- Assist the sales team by anchoring pre-sales activities for qualified opportunities.

- Responsibility for growth, development and retention of teams

- Leverage technology to enhance the competitive position of clients by identifying appropriate solutions and/or products and designs

- Effectively provide consultancy to clients on various aspects of their business using data analytics

- Lead project management adherence of timelines and quality of delivery, forecast people requirement, other business needs, manage and communicate with stakeholders, ensure that the teams follow operational discipline

- Be the thought leader in the focus area, go to person for internal teams

Skills :

- Extensive experience interacting with C-level executives.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Excellent presentation skills.

- Experience managing large global complex BI projects and teams.

- Proven ability to complete projects and achieve results in an ambiguous work environment.

- Proven strong leadership skills within the project team

- Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, develop and execute strategies, and track and measure results.

- Proven ability to build and motivate a team to achieve well communicated expectations.

- Proven strong negotiating and consensus building abilities.

- Proven skills to work effectively across internal functional areas in ambiguous situations

Requirements :

- Required Education : Degree in Computer science

- Experience in BI : over 10 years

- Technical mastery in tools such as SAS, QlikView or other visualization / Analytics Tools