Consulting Partner

Location : Chennai

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 ground-breaking 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.

From April 1st 2023, Wipro’s Domain & Consulting (D&C) group moved to a Global Business Line reporting directly into Srini Pallia, our CEO. The 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

This career opportunity within our career framework is at Consulting Partner level and is for the Core Processing Transformation Practice in BFSI. The role will lead growth of the consulting business across strategic account(s) by leveraging both; existing & emerging capabilities, in addition to creating new strategic growth areas to deliver significant profitable growth for the accounts and consulting globally.

This role is expected to deliver growth across transformation themes and consulting capabilities for Core Processing Transformation Practice. The Consulting Partner is expected to build C-level relationships, and leverage strategic partnerships as relevant for business growth strategy, in collaboration with the Global Account Executives and other business leaders globally.

Responsibilities
Growth: Work with the leadership team to define a sound business growth strategy for designated strategic account(s). Ensure the consulting business opens new business opportunities and expands Wipro’s client positioning
Relationships: B ring deep expertise and good industry connections to develop the consulting and advisory business
Solutions: Identifying & defining differentiated services and solutions for various process areas within designated strategic clients
Customer Centricity: Delivering customer value as a central theme across all activities. Ensuring Wipro is delivering as a partner and aligned to client/customer value and strategic goals.
Branding: Leverage the above to help create strong Wipro Market Positioning and increasing Wipro’s mindshare

Skills and Qualifications
Sell & Deliver
Ability to construct presentation slides that are effective in conveying the intended message and visually pleasing to a high level of standard. Additionally, candidate needs to have the ability to present the information effectively to the audience.
Outstanding leadership, communication, relationship building and networking skills on the client side, ecosystem partners and internal organisation
Successful in generating consulting business from new and existing accounts and have the capability to drive and lead customer relationships into multimillion-dollar engagements.
Delivery and program expertise with experience in handling multi shore consulting projects with distributed teams delivering sustainable customer value.
Know-how to comprehend complex scenarios, propose effective implementation plans & solutions in tackling challenges
Experience in delivering consulting engagements in Payments Solutions with knowledge/experience on Payment Schemes, Payment Initiatives like ISO 20022, SWIFT, Real-time Payments, Card Payments, Payment Products like- GPP, Oracle Banking Payments

Driving Transformation
Ability to probe customers, engage in conversations to uncover the underlying problems and shape the challenges into structured problem statements
Comes with a good level of transformation proposition definition and engagement shaping using core and disruptive technologies to solve business problems for tangible business benefits at large enterprise clients
Be a champion and passionate advocate for Transformation to reposition Wipro as a strategic partner to accelerate and sustain customer value. The individual must be an ambassador for Digital Adoption and the Digital Transformation for the industry.
Ability to drive and lead the strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients, partners, motivate teams and achieve results
Have a good understanding of the IT and digital technology, including its application to the Banking industry.

Talent Management
Creative, collaborative, and motivating consulting leader who can focus diverse teams on common outcomes and goals
Has some experience of nurturing, developing, mentoring of top talent into future consulting business leaders
Supports in the delivery of our organizational people strategy with strong collaboration from HR and Recruitment leads
Proactively seeks opportunities to attract top diverse talent at all levels
Exemplary professional and corporate track record, delivering concise and effective communications with authority
Highly adaptable in dynamic environments and integrates effectively into a global matrix environment

Thought Leadership
Strong desire to learn and shape your own career path
Ability to converse with industry leaders, analysts and formulate POV on trends
Proactively propose solutions, investment decisions along with published artifacts, industry speakerships, analyst interactions etc.
Utilises social media effectively with their digital presence
Strong domain knowledge and experience of developing and delivering strategic business and transformative initiatives with a significant focus on Digital.

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.