Practice Head - Healthcare & Life Science

Job Summary :

The role holder is expected to work with Leaders globally across Pre-sales, Practices and Sales Enablement . Help in growth of the portfolio of Healthcare services, strategic accounts, while also owning general Practice management responsibilities for the India-based team.

Responsibilities :

- Deliver Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry growth.

- Solutions : Identifying & defining differentiated services and solutions for various process areas within the Healthcare & Life Sciences space.

- Practice Management : Manage the team of consulting professionals based in India, including their goals & objectives, mentoring, career planning etc.

- Partnerships : Work with the leadership team to nurture key ecosystem partnerships in focus areas based on business strategy and growth imperatives.

Skills :

- Strong ability to lead a Healthcare practice with the objective of providing on-the-ground people leadership.

- Significant transformation proposition definition and engagement shaping using core and disruptive technologies to solve business problems to clear business benefits.

- Deep understanding of innovative customer models, products, services and business re-platforming strategies.

- Outstanding leadership, communication, relationship building and networking skills on the client side, client partners and internal organization.

- Creative and motivating leaders that can gel diverse teams to common outcomes.

- Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude and pragmatic approach, together with a strong desire to learn and shape your own career path.

- Gravitas to engage and grow relationships with senior business and IT clients.

Capabilities :

- Strategic thinking - Big picture orientation, conceiving effective strategies to drive growth for the vertical.

- Analytical thinking & problem solving skills -Ability to comprehend complex scenarios, propose effective implementation plans & solutions in tackling challenges.

- Leadership & Interpersonal skills - Ability to drive & lead the strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients, partners, motivate teams & achieve results.

- Thought Leadership - Ability to converse with industry leaders, analysts and formulate POV on trends and proactively propose solutions, investment decisions along with published artifacts, industry speakerships, analyst interactions etc.

- Personal Drive Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude, a strong desire to learn and shape one's own career path.

- Delivery Capabilities - Delivery and program expertise with experience in handling multi shore consulting projects with distributed teams.

Desired Profile :

- Strong Experience of leading a global, fast growing Healthcare business is a must

- Relevant experience working the US Healthcare & Life Sciences domain is a must and also experience of Europe Healthcare Market is a good to have.

- Good Solution Mindset , Incubation of new ideas and IP creation experience.

- Good knowledge of the market and demand including multiple engagements across geographies.

- Experience in consultative selling and creating client business case for value-based pitches