Engagement Director - Data Practice

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What You'll Do

• Build trusted partner relationships with senior client stakeholders
• Be a thought-leader, evangelize and drive collaborative, value-centered approaches to defining and solving problems
• Align with Business teams and Senior Leadership to co-develop / support account plans and strategies for delivery, growth, and client satisfaction
• Drive revenue within the client / account portfolio by identifying opportunities, solutioning, launching, and orchestrating wide range of data & analytics engagements
• Serve as principal consultant leading complex transformational initiatives
• Own and actively contribute to the strategic deliverables, such as vision & mission statements, assessment results, solution visions, strategies, plans & roadmaps
• Support pre-sales activities by assessing digital opportunities, responding to RFPs, creating proposals and presentations, and helping to close / sign new deals
• Your performance scorecard will include:
• Impact on Client Value and Business Growth achieve target revenue goals
• Impact on Operating the Business achieve target billable utilization
• Impact on Our People and Team(s) - contribute to the Data Practice people initiatives

Requirements

• Experience in IT or management consulting
• Proven track record of launching and managing complex technology initiatives or large-scale programs (50+ people) working with senior business and IT stakeholders
• Demonstrated success in developing and growing client relationships
• Strong problem solver and creative thinker with gravitas
• Ability to operate at the strategic level, yet being close enough to the details to add value to clients and be a real support to your team
• Experience in end-to-end data and analytics project delivery (BigData, Cloud DWH, Advanced Analytics / MLOps, etc.)
• Awareness of cloud and data technologies and trends with practical experience with one or more major data and analytics technologies
• Ability to manage customer expectations, present and explain solutions and project deliverables to senior stakeholders
• Ability to lead teams while tackling high level of uncertainty, big number of stakeholders, and tight timelines
• Ability to facilitate and drive strategy definition
• Ability to challenge and influence data solution design and technology selection for enterprise data platforms, warehouses, data lakes, and data science platforms
• Desire to learn & expand your comfort zone
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Expertise/or prior background in media companies
• Experience in media data analytics

Nice To Have

• Experience building data and analytics organizations (center of excellence, data engineering pools, data science teams)
• Experience running on-site customer workshops
• Experience in pre-sales activities

Qualifications

• Ability to operate at the strategic level, yet being close enough to the details to add value to clients and be a real support to your team
• Experience in end-to-end data and analytics project delivery (BigData, Cloud DWH, Advanced Analytics / MLOps, etc.)