
Principal Consultant - Tech & Impl - L1
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- An Ambassador for Wipro tenets and values
- Consulting Project manager or equivalent, manages teams of consultants/work streams and quality assures other work streams/projects/programs
- Client focused and tenacious in approach to solving client issues and achieving clients objectives. Demonstrates the experience of a 'well rounded' consultant. Flexible in approach and ability to coordinate resources with expertise in various areas
- Responsible for work stream budgets and assuring quality of deliverables
- Seen as a trusted advisor to senior clients and secures great feedback from clients
- Decisive and directive delivery focus with a can do attitude , demonstrates both hard and soft skills
- Coaches, mentors and motivates team and client staff , build trust and confidence through focus on quality and delivery
- Effective at engaging with clients, extracting information, e.g., developing facilitation and communication skills
- Responsible for ensuring project administration is up to date e.g., SoW, tagging, etc.
- Ensures high levels of individual utilisation achievement in line with the levels expected as part of the goal setting process
- Sells laterally and vertically when operating. Regularly identifies leads and converts them into opportunities and proposals
- Builds relationships and has an effective network of client contacts at buying level. Leads marketing and prospecting activities to populate the sales funnel for specified accounts
- Regularly participates in sales meetings. Builds relationships with client managers, applies competitive intelligence to further Wipro footprint in accounts
- Leads smaller scale meetings with sales teams, leads proposal development to a high standard working with sales teams as appropriate
- Contributes and leads RFP/RFI efforts by leveraging Wipro's global footprint and end to end consulting capability
- Consistently plays a key role in opportunity identification, raising potential pursuits to practice leadership team, helping them proactively in pursuits
- Develops insight and develops point of view into chosen industry and technology trends, ensures they are shared with the wider practice/GCG in one of the various channels. Leads assignment thought leadership
- Ensures a track record is written up of own assignment and, where appropriate, ensures it is written up as a case study. Responsible for ensuring use in sales
- Continually delivers all Wipro admin in a timely manner (timesheets, appraisals expenses, etc.,) Demonstrates contribution to internal initiatives
- Ensures the team leverages IP and knowledge assets from the central knowledge repository of Wipro and GCG and promotes reuse
- Proposes new service offerings/capabilities
- Contribution towards go-to-market solutions to deliver tangible business outcomes or breakthrough in industry segment
- Coaches and mentors junior consultants
- Monitors and curtails talent attrition
- Drives engagement with other consulting and delivery teams to both enhance collaboration and help design and deliver tailored
- Client solutions with desired impact
- Demonstrates value by identifying and following through on innovation and thought leadership opportunities
- Creates reusable IP/assets and makes self visible as a thought leader
(Select relevant measures/ modify measures after speaking to your Manager)
Deliver growth in consulting revenues • Support business performance for direct consulting against relevant quarterly/annual targets
- Lead end-to-end sales cycle for specific pursuits
- Improve quality of consulting by flawlessly leading/delivering strategic advisory/transformation engagements along with ownership of client expectation management, quality control and delivery assurance, issue management, client insight and value capture, work planning and execution, and effective client communications • % Revenue Achievement (actual vs. target)
- % of Personal Utilisation Achievement (against target)
- No. of RFI/RFPs responses led/supported
- No. of strategic advisory and transformation engagements delivered
- No. of referenceable clients, testimonials
- Average CSAT, PCSAT across projects
Grow market positioning • Elevate Wipro positioning in existing accounts through thought leadership and actively contributing to clients' strategic transformations
- Lead the development of thought leadership/offerings/assets for the practice to support business growth • Eminence and thought leadership demonstrated through content, citations and testimonials
- Number of white papers authored, evidence of assets like Repeatable IP, Frameworks & Methods authored/contributed
- Number of senior level thought leadership sessions/ roadshows with clients and industry forums delivered from the front
- Work with GCP/CCP/GCG Account Lead/Account team to grow consulting service portfolio, ensuring integration of propositions and collaboration across GCG • Number of credible business side relationships built in client organizations
- Number & $ value of integrated consulting deals supported
- Cross-Skilling - Numbers of reporting consultants worked on joint projects cutting across the different practices within GCG
- Self Development - Min 32 hrs on training in a year. Combination of online and classroom.
- Collaboration across GCG - through the contribution to cross-practice offerings, sharing of best practices/industrial/technological expertise, sharing of talent pool
- Knowledge Management - Number of webinars/knowledge sharing/thought leadership sessions conducted, Number of Assets owned and contributed to Consulting Central