Senior Consultant - Benchmarking & Sourcing Advisory

Description :

- Comprehensive Financial Analysis, Business Case, and Benchmarking to support upstream transaction, Transformation, or Sourcing Strategy (retained, outsourced, or inhouse centers)

- IT and BPO portfolio Benchmarking and Health Checks to identify areas of improvement in client existing retained and outsourced operations, service provider portfolios, spend etc

- Sourcing RFP development and rollout, service provider commercial negotiations, SOW commercial exhibits creation and client management in a sourcing journey

- Analysis and client syndication of service provider bids in the pre-BAFO and BAFO rounds

- Assist enterprise clients with provider site visits on ongoing outsourcing transactions

- Work with our external GIC advisory alliances (to execute and run client operations) in India to further the growth of the GIC advisory capability

- Lead the packaging of advisory content from the firms engagements, advisor connects, and COE engagements for internal and external publishing and marketing

The Senior Consultant will be involved in all aspects of practice management i.e.,

- Actively contribute to ongoing engagements at various stages

- On engagements with enterprise clients, this typically entails assisting in developing a business case, identifying areas of improvement in the clients environment and services portfolio, developing best-in-class targets or benchmarks for various parameters, crafting specific sections of RFPs that are rolled out to potential service providers, assessing the competitiveness of service provider proposals, setting negotiation targets, assisting in negotiations with service providers etc

- On engagements with service providers, this entails understanding the providers solution and delivery capabilities, automation frameworks, cost structures, pricing buildups etc., and compare them with custom developed benchmarks

- Get involved in recommending/instituting mechanisms (people, process, technology) for perpetual database updates

- Leverage the benchmarking database and experience to actively deliver on client projects along with the practice leaders; grow quickly to provide independent delivery and client management leverage to the leaders, as needed