Associate Partner Consult

**Why Kyndryl**

Kyndryl is a market leader that thinks and acts like a start-up. We design, build, manage, and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl?

We are always moving forward - always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers, and our communities. We invest heavily in you - not only through learning, training, and career development, but also through the flexible working practices and stellar benefits that help you grow and progress long-term. And we give back - from planting 90,000 trees in our first 3 months as part of our One Tree Planted initiative to the Corporate Social Responsibility and Environment, Social and Governance practices embedded within everything we do, we are committed to powering human progress in an ethical, sustainable way.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**
- Associate Partner to help drive exceptional customer IT outcomes, guide clients digitally transform their business, reduce risk, deliver operational excellence, continuously measure and achieve their digital transformation value while solving their mission critical challenges.
- Leveraging Kyndryl’s mission critical global strength and the leading technology capabilities of our Global Practices (Cloud, Mainframe, Networking and Edge, Data & Application, Security & Resilience and Digital Workplace).
- Experienced Consult AP are part of the high growth Consult business and participate and lead multi-disciplinary teams on complex consulting engagements and are accountable for creating and positioning value on Kyndryl’s largest accounts and opportunities.
- You will have exposure to senior leaders internally and within customers in a start-up-like environment, within the world’s largest mission critical IT operations and infrastructure services firm.
- As a Consult AP you will play a vital role with the client and Kyndryl account teams, building senior level relationships and driving value-based outcomes.
- You will have opportunities to lead small teams of practitioners on multiple projects, developing leadership skills and advancing your career in one of the fastest growing IT consulting business globally.

**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**

Consulting Subject Matter Expertise Domain:

- Proven track record in IT Consulting or IT Management Consulting with regional or global consulting firm with delivery and business development success and growth.
- Recognized externally & internally as a Consult leader on multiple specialization areas provided above.
- Ability to create, position and deliver Modern IT Strategies, OpModels, Complex Digital Transformations and Business/Financial value realization engagements and roadmaps.

Consulting Business Development Domain:

- Demonstrates success in creating, developing and closing pipeline to achieve signings targets of 5-10M annually on specific accounts, sectors or geography.
- Leads or has participated in complex sales efforts, seeks appropriate assistance as required, and has positive impact on sales closure.
- Able to drive smaller sales efforts, to close after initial identification with mínimal oversight and support.
- Has participated in sales cycles across multiple offering solutions and has been exposed to a diverse set of client proposals.
- Has been exposed to sales involving global resourcing components.

Consulting Engagement Delivery Domain:

- Build engagement specific consultant teams, based on skills required to meet SOW requirements and leads consulting engagements.
- Drive team and personal billable and chargeable utilization as required by the business
- Demonstrates a lead role in resolving a complex contract, client, solution, technical or political issues which are critical to delivery.
- Delivers complex projects and/or fixed price components with mix of global, local and subcontractor employees and product development challenges to price case and client satisfaction.
- Proactively seeks assistance in difficult delivery situations; gets right SMEs involved in delivery as required.

Consulting People & Team Leadership Domain:

- Behaves in a Player/Coach model to act as coach or mentor to fellow team members, as well as carry individual targets.

**Preferred Technical and Professional Experience**
- Exceptional and advanced Power point, Word & Excel skills to help convey messages and deliverables through modern consulting techniques.
- Ability to “roll up sleeve” and create/provide content for proposals, SOW and deliverables.
- Ensure client and deliverable deadlines, consult management system compliance. Takes pride in creating polished work products.
- Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly articulate the insights from findings to relevant stakeholders.
- Able to manage communication at working levels and also C-level gravitas. Able to drive and part