Managing Consultant

Introduction

We are building a modern Wipro.

We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA – as the world around us changes, so do we.

Why work at Wipro?

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. I f 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.

Besides a competitive salary and benefits package, we are an exciting and dynamic company to work for. The Top Employer Institute ranked Wipro #1 overall in Europe a “Top Employer” for 2024, we were assessed on several key HR practices including People Strategy, Work Environment, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Wellbeing and Diversity and Inclusion.

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Overview & Responsibilities

Wipro Consulting operates as it’s own Global Business Line reporting directly into Thierry Delaporte, our CEO. In his own words, this 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. 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 Consulting 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. Wipro Consulting team is at the heart of this. Our people are the tip-of-the-spear driving change, come join us

The Opportunity

This is a Senior Manager / Managing Consultant level role within our Benelux Consumer consulting business unit, and will support 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 both regionally and globally. The role will report into the Benelux Head of Consulting, with a dotted line to the Global Head of Consumer Consulting.

Consumer consulting brings deep domain experience and industry leading expertise to forge client success. Consumer consulting works with Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Retail and Distribution leaders. These industries are seeing massive changes due to digital transformation, shifts in consumer behaviour, and the emergence of new consumption channels. While consumer journeys are morphing fast, there is also the need for strong supporting ecosystems to enable growth in a rapidly changing environment.

This role is expected to shape and support the growth agenda (in both a business development and delivery capacity) across the following areas within the Benelux region and in a supporting role across wider European (and Global) opportunities;

• Industry 4.0 Smart Manufacturing, Value Chain Optimization, Integrated Sales & Marketing, Direct to Consumer (D2C)
• Intelligent Store, Digital Supply Chain, Omni Channel Enablement & Customer Experience, Enterprise Modernization & Smart Operations, Warehouse / Dock Transformation,
• Provide pull through opportunities for wider Wipro practice areas (Enterprise Futuring & Digital Operations, Full Stride Cloud, and Engineering Edge)

Areas of focus

• Growth: Work with the Benelux leadership team to agree and execute a targeted strategy to grow Wipro’s Consumer business in Benelux (leveraging our global capabilities)
• Relationships: You bring a significant external network within the Benelux Consumer market that you can leverage to provide Wipro with business development opportunities. You also possess the ability to quickly forge constructive internal relationships within and across multiple Wipro practices ensuring we can take a truly ‘One Wipro’ approach to our clients.
• Solutions: You will be a good ‘shaper’, able to pull together the best of what Wipro can offer to drive innovative solutions to client problems in the Benelux Market.
• Team Building: Initially you will look to leverage the broader consulting capabilities within the Benelux region, as well as our substantial offshore presence. As pipeline crystalises, you will also look to build an on-site presence within the region of similarly minded Consumer consultants.

Experience required

Develop Business, Sell & Deliver

• 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 organization.
• Influential internal change agent with gravitas and business building mindset, Dutch native or professional level language is required.
• Successful in generating consulting business from new and existing accounts and have the capability to drive and lead customer relationships into large business transformation 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.

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 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 IT and digital technology, including its application across the CPG, Retail & Distribution industries.

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.
• Strong desire to learn and shape your own and others career path.
• 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.

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 and contributor, writes publications, blogs and whitepapers.
• Utilises social media effectively using their digital presence.
• Strong domain knowledge and experience of developing and delivering strategic business and transformative initiatives with a significant focus on Digital.

As mentioned at the beginning, f 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.

Join a business powered by purpose, and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.

Come to Wipro. Realize your ambitions.

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