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Senior Manager – Technology Advisory Services

Salary: Competitive
Location: Abu Dhabi
Type: Permanent
Advertiser: NSI
Posted: 06 August 2012
Reference No.: GJM-40422
Engagement Management:
  • Lead engagement planning and budgeting
  • Mobilize and manage engagement teams
  • Define deliverable structure and content
  • Facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client
  • Direct on-time
  • Quality delivery of work products
  • Manage engagement economics
  • Manage engagement risk
Client Management:
  • Manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
Business Development:
  • Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients
  • Organize and lead pursuit teams;
  • Participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process
  • Contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies
Practice Development & Eminence:
  • Develop practical solutions and methodologies
  • Develop "thoughtware" and "point-of-view" documents
  • Participate in public speaking events
  • Get published in industry periodicals
People Development:
  • Perform role of counselor and coach;
  • Provide input and guidance into the staffing process;
  • Actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities;
  • Provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local office
  • The candidates will be joining a project team and a pool of resources dedicated to delivering client engagements from other locations focused on common tools, technologies and methodologies.
Required Skills:
  • 10+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience
  • At least 4 years of experience managing large technology engagements
  • 8+ years in IT strategy related roles with 5+ years in IT leadership or IT management roles
  • A willingness to travel 80 - 100% of the time
  • Business development experience and high comfort level meeting with and presenting to CxO and VP levels
  • Demonstrated experience in business process improvement, leveraging information and technology
  • Experience with IT organization design and management principles/techniques, as well as IT management tools
  • Experience managing large, complex projects with 12+ resources within a consulting environment, with a vendor or within an enterprise IT team
  • An advanced degree in the area of specialization
  • IT Strategy & Alignment - Delivering IT Strategies driven both from a top down analysis starting with an articulated business strategy and a bottom up technology capability analysis.
Experiences include:
  • IT/Business Alignment
  • IT Transformation
  • IT Organization/Operating Models
  • IT Assessment/Due Diligence
  • Improving Business Performance
  • Developing Functional Strategies
  • Effectiveness - Assisting clients in formalizing the tools and processes needed to understand how IT resources and programs create shareholder (business) value, and how to improve IT resource allocation to maximize value.
  • IT Performance Management
  • IT Portfolio Management
  • IT Sourcing/Outsourcing/Offshoring
  • IT Cost Allocation/Chargeback
  • IT Cost Reduction
  • IT Talent and Resource Management
  • IT Compliance/Risk Management
  • Program Leadership/PMO
  • IT Merger Integration
Preferred Skills:
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
  • Eagerness to mentor junior staff
  • MBA preferred
Please apply online.

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