Role Purpose:
The Director, GMU Growth Markets Offering Lead is responsible for the overall performance and growth of a given MU-Offering across Growth Markets and their assigned Region. The Director, GM Offering Lead works closely with the Regional Offering lead and the GM MIT Lead to implement a strategy for offering identification and investments. This role is focused on driving the offering every day; they are the "face" of the Offering internally and externally in their Region, support offering sales and delivery, manage offering related capability and capacity, and own regional interlock with offering alliance partners, MS, and Accenture.
Full-Time Role ("Chair") or Assigned Role ("Hat") : Full-Time Role
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Years of Experience:
7+ years' relevant technology business leadership experience, including solution sales, creation, delivery and business management
Management Experience
5+ years of demonstrated people and/or business leadership experience, particularly leading consultants
Education
Bachelor's degree in business or technology-related field required; advanced degree strongly preferred, particularly technical (IT, engineering, or related) or MBA
Skills/ Knowledge/ Experience Required
Qualifications:
- Experience with Modern Workplace infrastructure across Microsoft 365 (Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security) would be expected
- Experience helping grow a technology services line of business through strategy and sales contribution
- Experience establishing a presence in the target market and in the minds of key clients through client interactions and executive presence
- Experience with sales principles and practices, including business development, marketing, and complex channel management
- Ability to effectively team with peers in a large, matrixed organizations
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, especially strong influencing and negotiation capabilities
- Track record in developing and growing long term, high value client relationship
Consulting & Delivery Experience
- Experience in delivering Modern Workplace and Productivity solutions for client organizations through complex solutions / projects with heavy client interaction
- Experience with O365 migration planning and on-going managed services for O365 based Productivity solutions
- Experience driving Workplace Modernization efforts, including Windows 10 and Modern Management (SCCM/Intune)
- Ability to guide and direct leadership teams in development, production, and promotion of solution offerings
- Significant experience with off-shore teams and deliver
- Deep technical expertise in domains relevant to Market Unit solution portfolio
Qualifications
Additional Area / Region specific requirements
- Experience and or exposure within APAC regions particularly, ASEAN, Japan, Australia and China would be preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- One job every day - drive the offering
- Work with account teams to drive offering sales in targeted accounts
- Lead solution planning & design efforts for offerings
- Manages effective delivery of offerings to clients (+project mobilization, QAs)
- Work with counterparts in other Market Units where Modern Workplace intersects
- Drive Modern Workplace campaigns and initiatives for the Area
- Interlock with Accenture/Microsoft at the offering level
- Interlock with Global CoE on offering / asset development
- Reviews and approves ROMs and deals as per deal review matrix for offering
- Collaborates with DM leads to surface delivery issues and estimate EAC outcomes for offerin
- Partners with RCLs to determine priorities for staff positioning on client projects, business development activities and internal investments initiatives for offering
- Partners with Regional Capability Lead on MU workforce strategy, balancing supply vs demand timing and optimal GDN participation for offering
Accountability & Metrics
- Growth Markets Sales for Offering
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Growth Markets Revenue for Offering - Growth Markets CCI Leakage for Offering
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