Manager of Consulting

Job Description

Overall Position Summary: Lead a team of Principal/Senior Consultants and Customer success specialists responsible for on-time and high-quality solution deployment across a wide range of industries and verticals such as Financial services, Banking, pharmaceuticals,

Marketing and Advertising and Media and Publishing.

Provide strategic assessment and transactional consulting to our global customer base to map their business process to solution capabilities and define measurable ROI for the deployments.

Strategic assessment and transactional consulting at senior levels.

Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in business terms to all levels of management including senior leaders

Team development and management experience, including recruiting, relationship management, mentoring and utilization management.

Has clear understanding of Quark product suite capabilities and its consumption in customized solutions

Contributes towards setting of Departmental goals/Strategies and ensuring their adherence by guiding and directing team members

Closely collaborates with VP in aligning department with organizational goals Full time position based in Chandigarh I. Key Metrics for Success: Ensure oversight for the On-time and high-quality delivery and deployment of the solutions.

Responsible for Net Revenue and Customer/Logo Retention

Responsible for defining processes to ensure streamlined customer onboarding and training.

Ensure value for our customer base through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction and overall heath scores

Define operation metrics for the team and executive report for senior management oversight.

Identify expansion opportunities within our customer base and help Sales meet the annual revenue commitments.

Customer Support Post deployment of solution ensure all tickets (excluding new feature) are resolved as per SLA

Recruitment and onboarding of talented and high performing individuals to support our global customer base.

Foster a continuous learning system by ensuring the team is certified as per the organization policies. II. Key Duties & Responsibilities :

Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Subject matter expert on both domain and companys products.

Works on issues that impact design/selling success or address future concepts, products or technologies. Often serves as consultant to management and external spokesperson for the organization. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

Manages communication with geographically distributed teams

Ability to deliver product/solution training to internal and external stakeholders.

Ensure solution developed for customer is as per expectation and has maximum adoption

Deliver training to customers as per need so that maximum adoption of solution can be achieved.

Encourages and mentors team towards following best practices, building of wholesome environment in team

Learn new technologies and conduct Knowledge Sharing Sessions

Act as am internal customer to Engineering and helping in scope the right feature for development.

Works on improving and defining policies, procedures and processes

Build strong liaison with customers/project sponsors/project owners

Be able to understand project/s dynamics and be manage resources allocation

Responsible for Technical Success of the projects

Works closely with multiple teams

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT score)

Works in close coordination with Product Management to define GTM Strategy for target Industry/Vertical.

Ideate and develop solutions to address common problem/requirement of assigned Industry/Vertical

Represent on Customer forums/Blogs/White papers/Social Media

Mentoring Build an environment that fosters trust, innovation and productivity within the team. Ensure team remains motivated and engaged all the time despite frequent switching between project priorities

Solution Adaptation: Work with client to ensure the solution is made as per customer expectation and post deployment customer is using at least 70% of license purchased.

Value Addition to Product Roadmap: Based on the feature request from multiple customers identify features which should be in based product rather than implemented as services. Document them as a PBI and push it to Product backlog. This is to minimize customization and make customer pay of Subscription.

Required Qualification & Skills:

BE/B.Tech/MCA/ME/MTech from premier institute and with around 12-18 years of industrial exposure

10+ years in a product consulting role in successfully delivering multiple product-based implementation/deliveries.

Experience in running governance of complex deployment and usage projects within large organizations

Strong skills in leadership, decision making, client engagement, people management, execution, and drive.

Deep understanding of overall systems development life cycle including various methodologies (agile, waterfall, iterative)

Deep passion for making customers successful

Excellent Verbal and written Communication skills

Good understanding of cloud Technologies and Modular/Lean Architecture

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Keyskills :
life cyclekey metricsmusic makingcustomer supportbusiness processteam developmentproduct adoptionsenior managementpeople managementclient engagementdistributed teamscorporate liaisonknowledge sharingfinancial servicesproduct managementdigit