Practice Head

We have been retained by an AI Powered Technology client to hire a Practice Head – ServiceNow Practice for Bangalore location.
Experience: 10-15 years in Practice building, delivery and business growth with SNOW suite of products.
Job Descriptio n
A career within the ServiceNow practice, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients leverage Salesforce technology to enhance their customer experiences, enable sustainable change, and drive results. We focus on understanding our client’s challenges and developing custom solutions powered by SNOW to transform their sales, service and marketing capabilities by exploring data and identifying trends, managing customer life cycles, strategically building and leveraging online communities, driving employee engagement and collaboration, and connecting directly with channel partners to share goals, objectives, and activities in a secure, branded location.
Job Summary:
The Practice Head - ServiceNow position calls for dynamic individuals who will be part of the technology leadership team. The candidate will be engaged with our esteemed clients for developing and maintaining relationships with the client's leadership group, continuously looking for opportunities in those accounts, conceptualizing and developing Industry SaaS solutions customized to the opportunities, help the Sales team by developing and driving consulting, delivery solutions and proposals and lead the delivery teams during the engagement for delivering value promised to our clients. The person should have good ServiceNow technology background with focus on revenue growth, pre-sales solutioning, and practice development.
Responsibilities
· Responsible for building SNOW practice grounds up handling P&L, growth, solutioning & pre-sales, and delivery function for SNOW suite of products.
· Will be responsible for developing Industry products/platforms grounds up using SaaS and AI
· Should have in-depth knowledge and understanding of Service Now Partner ecosystem, licensing model and platform management models.
· Capable in designing and developing large solutions combining Service Now platform, automation and workflow capabilities for clients
· Lead offshore team in all the Service Now modules like ITSM, ITOM, ITBM, HRSD, Sec Ops. The role will spread across blueprint, design, configuration, build and rollout phase.
· The role involves knowledge and experience of both functional and technical aspect for a successful implementation, working closely with various stakeholders like business, process leads and offshore team.
· Collaborate to develop platforms on SNOW suite of products
· Perform an appropriate role in business development in terms of pre sales and practice development. for example, pre sales, internal engagement and / or knowledge management
· Need to have Implementation and Scripting experience on ITSM module and either one of these following SecOps / Discovery /HRSD / CSM / FSM / ITBM / Orchestration / Service Portal / CMDB / Service Mapping / Event Management / ITOM
· Service-now for custom Application Design & Development.
· Hands-on technical delivery including required documentation of cost-effective Service-now solutions, Ability to create and Modify Workflows.
· Should have good integration experience using either one of the following – REST / SOAP /
API / Web services Knowledge of ITIL V3 processes
Experience/Knowledge Required
Technical skills
•10-15 years of experience in developing, architecting and implementing, and practice development on ServiceNow based technologies
•Development and implementation experience Industry/Domain solutions using SNOW stack and AI tools and technologies
•Pre-sales: Participate in requirement discovery with clients, design and develop solutions for the ServiceNow platform, ranging from current feature enhancements and bug fixes to full application suite deployment. Responsible for RFx and solutioning responsibility for clients. Lead sales and pre-sales work in Service Now, respond to client proposals, participate in orals and help growing Service Now business
•Delivery & Solutioning: Coordinate with Client, Architects, Business Analysts, and developers to translate business requirements to technical requirements and development tasks. Contribute and review user stories. Build and maintain technical documentation. Monitor health, usage, and overall compliance of ServiceNow and its applications. Assists in project estimation. Participate in regular Knowledge Transfer sessions with ServiceNow Developers. Coordinate upgrades to Production and Sub-Production instances. Develop and manage the complete ServiceNow implementation lifecycle for the Public Transport Ticketing System, driving process optimization and automation across various modules (e.g., ITSM, ITOM).
•Practice building: Build a SNOW practice and consulting layer for blueprinting workshops and contribute with accelerators and frameworks. Build SNOW COE in continuous development of training paths for professional advancement of the practice. Contribute to ongoing definition of best development and solution practices. Build partnership with SNOW and niche platform players. Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff. Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff. Maintain an educational
• Stay current with new and updated capabilities of the ServiceNow Platform. Contribute to people-related initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training .
•Experience in Manufacturing and/or Retail & CPG domain is desired
•Certifications in ServiceNow (e.g., Certified System Administrator, Certif i ed Implementation Specialist)Business and sector expertise
•Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy across corporate technology domains preferably in Manufacturing and/or Retail/CPG industry
•High-level understanding/appreciation of processes that impact business operations
•Experience of advising/communicating to ‘Global Head of’ levels’ of Management
•Experience of developing and influencing strategic working relationships with key technology suppliers. Leadership and management experience
•Strong leadership skills in managing individuals and leading high performing teams
•Experience of defining strategic goals for functions and systems for measuring goal attainment
•Experience providing technology leadership in managing complex transformations areas
• Finding opportunities to partner with external Technology organizations, developing the approach and negotiating terms
•Experience of establishing Architecture in an Agile culture
•Leadership and management experience at Director or equivalent level, managing global teams in a matrix environment
Personal Skills and Capabilities
•Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical partners and to listen to identified concerns and adapt accordingly
•Ability to influence across multiple functions (technical and non-technical)
•Ability to work well under pressure and tight deadlines
•To quickly build up a working knowledge of applications by working with others and reading up on new apps/technologies
•A continuous desire and willingness to learn and develop your current knowledge and skillset
•Flexible in approach, adapting plans and strategies to help manage risks around ambiguity
•Problem solver with a strong intuition for business and well-versed in current technological trends and business concepts
•Prior experience in startup and product organization is an added advantage
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