Managing Consultant

Location: All Wipro Locations in India

Service Line - Domain & Consulting - CIO Advisory

Experience : 15+ years

About Us

Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. We harness the power of cognitive computing, hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics and new groundbreaking technologies to help our clients adapt to the digital world and make them a successful and innovative company. We are an organization recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong dedication to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, we have over 255,000 hard-working, respected employees serving clients across six continents. Together, we discover ideas and connect the dots to build a better and exciting new future.

It’s also an exciting and dynamic company to work for. The Top Employer Institute ranked Wipro as a “Top Employer” for 2023 in 11 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. We were assessed on several key HR practices including People Strategy, Work Environment, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Wellbeing and Diversity and Inclusion. This is accompanied by exciting business growth where Wipro has posted continued growth of 45% over the last 10 quarters coming into FY24.

From April 1st, 2023, Wipro’s Domain & Consulting (D&C) group moved to a Global Business Line reporting directly into Srini Pallia, our CEO. This evolution of our business is aligned to our clients’ strategic priorities, and will allow us to:

• drive better delivery synergies and orchestration
• enhance the experience we deliver across the client journey
• streamline decision making and channel our investments more effectively
• build new capabilities ahead of the market to capitalize on untapped opportunities
• create more opportunities for talent development and reskilling, across the firm.

Wipro empowers companies to transform their business and deliver superior experiences for their customers, partners and employees. Our Domain and Consulting (D&C) team is at the heart of this. With an entrepreneurial mindset and a sense of fun, we thoughtfully evaluate clients’ problems; craft innovative solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies; and work side-by-side with clients to drive business outcomes. Wipro D&C is a proactive force of change, a true partner in our clients’ transformation, and a uniquely powerful group that combines strategic counsel with technical excellence. Our people are the tip-of-the-spear driving change, come join us

The CIO Advisory business unit is part of Wipro’s Consulting division where we address enterprise CIO’s business challenges with guidance around key areas such as Enterprise Architecture & Strategy; Cloud Strategy & Advisory; Process & Program Transformation; and Technology Business Management. We are the front-end and tip of the spear when translating business problems into innovative and disruptive solutions.

Role

Managing consultant is a senior role in the consulting organization which reports directly to a consulting partner. They have key result areas associated with all four aspects of consulting i.e. Deliver, Sell, Thought Leadership and Practice Development. Managing consultants are ‘Partners’ in the making. They are expected to establish a brand for themselves in the organization, client community and industry and grow into Partner roles.

Typical day in a life of a managing consultant includes the following activities:

• Assessing IT maturity and benchmarking
• Creating strategic IT vision to better support organizational priorities
• Defining IT and Digital strategies, roadmaps and business cases for effecting IT vision / Digital transformation and aligning to recent business changes (e.g. Mergers and Acquisitions, Demergers, Business expansion etc.)
• Building IT operating models to align with the defined IT strategy and recent business changes
• Developing IT architecture strategies to support the technology strategy
• Driving IT cost transparencies, chargebacks and identifying initiatives to optimize IT costs
• Assessing and managing IT risks and technology debt
• Accelerating transformation through established technologies such as Cloud, Data and Analytics and emerging technologies such as AI, Automation and Gen AI
• Program managing the strategic IT initiatives to realize value from the developed strategies
• Driving interactions with key client and internal stakeholders
• Supporting data collection, analysis and insight relay to client teams
• Collaborating with other members in the engagement team and global teams to meet contractual commitments as part of the consulting statement of work
• Mentoring and lead junior consultants on best practices
• Developing high quality consulting deliverables and reports
• Enabling business development activities by participating in proposals and other go to market initiatives
• Enabling practice development activities by participating in collateral / accelerator development, building thought leadership and enabling hiring activities

5-Habits for Success at Wipro

• Being Respectful, this requires that you treat others how you want to be treated
• Being Responsive, this requires that you always acknowledge, commit and respond within reasonable timeframes
• Always Communicating, this requires that you ensure information flows (including difficult news) in a timely, proactive and consistent manner
• Demonstrate Stewardship, this requires that you put the interest of Wipro ahead of everything else (business unit / team / self)
• Building Trust, this require that you demonstrate a high say-do ratio in everything you do without externalizing failures

Attributes we are seeking

• Experience working in consulting setups in senior roles
• Object oriented, structured along with a strong problem solving ability, in addition to a proven track record to driving results
• Strong understanding & expertise in information technology and its implications and applications to solve business problems
• Ability to understand of one or more industry domains, value chain and associated challenges
• Ability to sift through information/data, assimilate, analyze and build a point of view
• Excellence in strategic orientation, analytical problem solving and effective communications
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Go-getter attitude and being outcome oriented
• Self-guided attitude- Ability to succeed in a professional environment where goals & objectives may not always be well-defined. Qualified candidates will understand how to produce results when working in challenging & ambiguous environments and/or new business areas
• If you only meet some of the requirements for this role, that's okay We value a diverse range of backgrounds & ideas and believe this is fundamental for our future success. So, if you have the curiosity to learn and the willingness to teach what you know, we'd love to hear from you.
• We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of their age, cultural background, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, or anything else.