Strategy Planning & Optimization Lead - APAC
Black & Veatch View all jobs
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Contributes to or leads the development and implementation of the strategic direction and objectives of a service offering or business line . Manages employees in engagements and provides input for performance management and compensation . Leads development of products and/or services . Guides the career development of other employees in the firm or provide mentoring
- May provide overall performance evaluation
- Evaluates employee contribution to specific engagements
- Creates opportunities via engagement assignments for the development of an employee's competencies . Matrix Management: Transfers knowledge, capabilities, and skills to improve others' knowledge and skill levels
- Provide ongoing feedback to professionals on the projects and their supervisors
- Complete project evaluation forms . Delegates work duties according to the development opportunities and needs of individuals
- Consulting Capability: . Creates leverage and maintains productive key relationships within client organizations
- Seeks opportunities with existing or new clients
- Actively pursues the acquisition of new engagements . Identifies and addresses critical success factors for complex engagements
- Analyzes and aligns solutions with the business objectives . Simultaneously manages multiple engagements, as necessary . Secures receivables from clients during and after completion of engagements . Develops or encourages creation of profitable service products to be sold to clients in defined service offerings
- Industry Knowledge Capability: . Leads delivery of innovative solutions from concept through implementation for client engagements . Serves as an adviser to engagement teams . Leads quality reviews of assigned engagements
- Project Management Capability: . Manages and leads all aspects of an engagement including staffing and operations as well as client relationships . Defines and develops a knowledge management strategy and plan for engagements . Ascertains risks to the success of engagements and minimizes or eliminates their impact . Manages multiple projects at any one time, as necessary . Manages highly complex or high volume of engagements with factors that may include:
- enterprise wide or multiple business units; manager other contractor/vendors on the project; high level of technology integration within the engagement; or cross-functional and/or multi-dimensional teams
- Scope: . Billable hours and business development targets established in annual goal setting process
- Management Responsibilities: . May supervise work of others
- Responsible for hiring, discipline, and pay administration of their subordinates
- May have management responsibility for the people to whom they provide work direction
- Positions supervised:
- Analyst, Consulting, Sr
- Analyst, Consulting, Consultant, Manager, Consulting and Principal Consultant
- May also act as a project manager of a project team
- Individuals comprising this team may vary by project
- Master's degree preferred
- Business development of 5+ years preferred
- Preferred Skills: . Accomplished project management skills . Advanced business development capability . Business and consulting management skills . People management skills including recruiting, evaluation, and mentoring . Advanced knowledge in all aspects of consulting processes . Extensive client management and negotiation skills . Advanced knowledge of the marketplace . Advanced interpersonal skills
- Preferred Consultant Skills: . . Business Acumen . Comfort Around Higher Management . . Dealing with Ambiguity . . Learning on the Fly