Practice Head - Data

About the client:

- Company Name: IBM

- Funding Stage: IPO

- Headquarter Location: US

- Founding Year: 1911

- No of Employees: 10000+

Please note : This role is open only for diversity hiring.

The Opportunity

Our client is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries is seeking a VP level executive to lead the Cloud Data Engineering practice for Insights & Data.

She has :

- Around 25+ years of experience managing a practice of Insights and Data.

- Should have experience and understanding managing large Datawarehouse/Data Lake/ Viz projects

- Have a good understanding of any of the hyperscalers/clouds from data perspective

- Managing a large practice 4000+ people

- Delivery Leadership & Governance

- Experience interaction with client to position offerings and working with accounts to ensure staffing , risk coverage and provide leadership

- Accountable for Utilization, Team satisfaction, forecasting working with accounts

- Single point of contact for all needs in India (Point of contact for NA, APAC, CE, UK)

- Good consulting and value proposition skills

- Focus on People aspect, Solutions that could be taken to market

Our Ideal Candidate should have:

- She will have at least 25 years of experience in Insights & Data.

- A Bachelor's degree is required.

This person is motivated to deliver high-quality work to drive customer satisfaction. They use their intellect, insight, and ability to build creative solutions with clients and colleagues while embracing a collaborative mindset. Key qualifications include:

- Strong customer orientation, decision making, problem solving, communication and presentation skills

- Very good judgement skills and ability to shape compelling solutions and solve unstructured problems with assumptions

- Very good collaboration skills and ability to interact with multi-cultural and multi-functional teams spread across geographies

- Ability to roll sleeves

- Strong executive presence and entrepreneurial spirit

- Superb leadership and team building skills with ability to build consensus and achieve goals through collaboration rather than direct line authority

- A positive, results oriented style, evidenced by listening, motivating, delegating, influencing, and monitoring the work being done

- Ability to establish immediate credibility among his/her peers, a professional who is respected for his/her intelligence and technical expertise

- An engaging/open interpersonal style complimented by the analytical pragmatism necessary to quickly dissect highly complex issues

- Strong interpersonal/communication skills with the professional staff, senior level executives, and the business community at large

- Demonstrates an ability and willingness to partner internally and externally to achieve appropriate objectives