Wavestone - Consultant/Senior Consultant - Benchmarking/Outsourcing Advisory

This is an opportunity to join Wavestone India team supporting US clients in their Outsourcing Advisory, Financial Analysis & Benchmarking

Key Responsibilities

- Maintain on an ongoing basis the IT benchmarking databases (metrics related to pricing, performance, delivery, T&Cs etc.) with oversight / support from the practice leaders

- Get involved in 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

- Actively contribute to ongoing engagements at various stages which typically entails

- assisting in developing a business case, identifying areas of improvement in the client's 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

- Collaborate with the practice leaders and Marketing on ideas to synthesize/package practice capabilities, IP, and engagement takeaways into marketable content

Education and Experience :

- We are seeking a high caliber individual to maintain our exceptional standards. This person should have:

- 6 -12 years of experience with expertise in Solutioning and pricing know how in IT outsourcing transformation mandates. Should have experience on multiple dimensions such as transaction-based or RU-based pricing, FTE-based prices and outcome based priced, leverage of Automation in IT deals, Private & Public Cloud, SaaS models etc.

- Prior experience in, and ability to comprehend, trends in outsourcing, shared services, and digital transformation (Mandatory)

- Desirable to have exposure in multiple IT segments especially in IT Infrastructure and IT Applications (Mandatory)

- Strong ownership and leadership traits

- Excellent written and oral presentation skills

- Client presence and relationship orientation

- Collaborative work style; strong interpersonal and team skills

- Bachelors Degree and MBA preferred but the right experience takes precedence