Job Description Greetings Everyone Who are we? For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. For a brief 1 minute video about us, you can check What will you do? What are we looking for?Title: Consulting Manager - Client Strategy & InnovationRole Description The Consulting Analyst will be a key member of the Strategy Consulting Group that leads our client engagements. This person is focused on understanding strategic objectives and defining path to achieve, with primary responsibility for gathering and analyzing data, interviewing clients, developing hypotheses and contributing to strategic recommendations.
- Be a critical member of the Photon Strategy Consulting team supporting our client throughout the Engagement process
- Conduct market and competitive analysis including synthesizing and presenting insights to clients
- Demonstrate ability to listen to the client and craft appropriate strategic response including framework development, work break down structure, developing execution plans and specific workstream outcomes
- Identify issues critical to the clients' strategic and operational success, and propose solution approaches and supporting technology & tools to address
- Develop solutions to business & technical problems, by documenting key requirements and supporting business case justification
- Perform industry analysis, benchmark analysis and gap assessments to generate insights about client and their capabilities and rank versus market leaders
- Manage day-day client interaction and relationships with key stakeholders and sponsors
- Build, own and drive the engagement plan including cross-functional alignment and management by influence
- Collaborate and develop new frameworks, methodologies, point of view and best practices based on deep client experience and market insights
- Evaluate opportunities for feature and service innovation, helping clients understand the leading-edge technologies and the transformational impact on their business
- Primary contributor to business case development leveraging Photon's engagement and ideation methodology, with the ability to present findings at team & client meetings
- Effective member of multidisciplinary team, with strong collaboration skill and ability to engage effectively across Photon to gather expertise and focus solution development
Skills Required
- 8-10 years of consulting or industry experience (Retail, Finance/Banking, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical preferred)
- Broad Digital Experience preferred, including Automation, AI, GenAI, Journey Mapping, Content Management, eCommerce, Marketing Automation, CRM, Service & API Development, Cloud Deployments & Migrations and supporting technologies & tools
- Outstanding analytical capability & data modelling skills, with the ability to synthesize and visually present findings
- Foundational understanding of strategy and operations within targeted industries
- The ability to effectively operate independently and in a team environment
- Effective user of project collaboration tools document, assign tasks to team members, manage and monitor progress and drive team productivity
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, proficient with MS Office & Google Suite for collaboration
- A relevant advanced degree or MBA from a top educational institution preferred
- In addition to above, high emphasis on motivated, self-starter, quick learner, innovative, awareness & evangelism of the latest solution & technology adoption trends
- Must be willing and able to travel 50% or more to client work locations based current project / engagement requirements
We are looking for bright, intellectually curious, digital technology enthusiasts with a passion for constantly reducing friction points for consumers to engage better with their chosen brands. If you want to be part of the team that enables 1B+ digital customer touchpoints across the globe everyday, then this is the place for you! We look forward to having a conversation with you soon.