Director - Retail Banking & Lending

Wipro; Chennai; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Wipro Limited in Chennai seeks a Director to drive growth in Retail Banking & Lending consulting, build senior client relationships, and lead multi‑shore delivery across transformations in BFSI.

The role requires strategic leadership, deep banking domain knowledge, and ability to manage large, complex engagements with global teams. Join a dynamic BFSI Consulting team driving digital transformation.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership with a track record in driving growth in consulting
• Experience handling multi-shore projects and large, transformational deals
• Strong ability to build and sustain C-level relationships across clients

Responsibilities

• Develop growth strategy for designated strategic accounts in Banking & Lending
• Lead client relationships and cross-border delivery across teams
• Define differentiated services and solutions for BFSI clients and drive executive sponsorship

Skills

Leadership

Business development

Client relationships

Digital transformation

Banking domain knowledge

Strategic thinking

Job description

Job Title: Director - Retail Banking & Lending

Posting Start Date: 10/30/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description

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. 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. Our BFSI Consulting team is at the heart of this. Our people are the tip-of-the-spear driving change, come join us!

The Opportunity

The role as a Director will lead growth of the consulting business across strategic account(s) by leveraging both existing and emerging capabilities, in addition to creating new strategic growth areas to deliver significant profitable growth for the accounts and consulting locally and globally. This role is expected to deliver growth across Transformation themes for Retail Banking & Lending. Our Director is expected to build C-level relationships and leverage strategic partnerships as relevant for business growth strategy, in collaboration with the Global Account Executives and other business leaders globally.

Areas of focus

• Growth: Work with the leadership team to define a sound business growth strategy for designated strategic account(s). Ensure the consulting business opens new ‘One Wipro’ business opportunities and large deals by positioning and leveraging consulting skills and capabilities.
• Relationships: As a Director you bring deep expertise and good industry connections to develop the consulting and advisory business
• Solutions: Identifying & defining differentiated services and solutions for various process areas within designated strategic clients
• Customer Centricity: Delivering customer value as a central theme across all activities. Ensuring Wipro is delivering as a partner and aligned to client/customer value and strategic goals.
• Branding: Leverage the above

Who we are looking for

Develop Business, Sell & Deliver

• Big picture orientation, conceiving effective strategies to drive growth.
• 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
• Successful in generating consulting business from new and existing accounts and have the capability to drive and lead customer relationships into multimillion‑dollar engagements.
• Proven track record of winning transformational and strategic consulting sales, and strong focus on account planning, business development strategies, participating in large integrated deals, governance, delivery and operational management.
• 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 banking and financial services industry.

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.

Reinvent your world.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. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention. Realize your ambitions.

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