Introduction
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Overview & Responsibilities
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 Senior Partner level and is for our Utilities consulting business unit. The role as Utilities Leader in Grid Modernization and Energy Transition space also expands into Engineering Construction & Operations (ECO) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), they 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.
We bring an experienced global team of domain specialists – including engineers, technology and business-skilled practitioners, as well as specialists in geoscience and other disciplines aligned to our client base. Our solutions cover the transformation lifecycle from assessment to delivery to sustainability.
Description
This role is expected to deliver growth across the following areas:
- Grid Modernization including ADMS, DMS, OMS, SCADA, IT OT integration.
- Energy Transition including DERMs, DRMS, DNO DSO Transition and Behind the Meter Services.
- Engineering Construction & Operations (ECO) + GIS.
- Consulting capabilities across Digital Experiences & Design Thinking, Technology enabled Business Transformation, CxO Advisory including M&A, New Ways of Working, Vendor Consolidation & Target Operating Model.
Our Grid Modernization and Energy Transition Consulting Leader is expected to build and maintain 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.
Areas of focus
- Growth: Work with the leadership team to define and execute a sound business growth strategy for designated strategic account(s). Ensure the consulting business opens new Utilities opportunities and expands Wipro’s client positioning.
- Relationships: As a Senior Partner you bring deep expertise and good industry connections to develop the consulting and advisory business. Internal relationships are equally important as you work with a “One Wipro” mindset.
- 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
- Big picture orientation, conceiving effective strategies to drive growth.
- Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude and pragmatic approach.
- 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.
- Proven track record of winning transformational and strategic consulting sales, and strong focus on account planning, business development strategies, participating in large integrated deals, governance, delivery, and operational management.
- 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.
Driving Transformation
- Ability to probe customers, engage in conversations to uncover the underlying problems and shape the challenges into structured problem statements.
- Significant 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 in the Utilities landscape 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.
- Influential internal change agent with gravitas and business building mindset.
- 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 IT and digital technology especially those which are new and emerging, including its application to the Grid Modernization and Energy Transition.
Talent Management
- Creative, collaborative, and motivating consulting leader who can focus diverse teams on common outcomes and goals.
- Nurturing, developing, mentoring of top talent into future consulting business leaders.
- Execution of organisational 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.
- Strong desire to learn and shape your own career path, paving the way for your successor each time you progress.
Thought Leadership
- 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.
- Internal content and offerings creator, writes publications, blogs and whitepapers.
- 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 Grid Modernization and Energy Transition.
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.
