Thought Machine Leader

Wipro; Chennai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Wipro in India is seeking a Senior Partner to lead a consulting practice, drive revenue growth, and develop strategic client relationships across industries. The role emphasizes personal billability at high fee rates and the ability to shape premium engagements.

You will oversee delivery excellence, manage teams, collaborate across practices, and push thought leadership through IP and market engagement, while ensuring utilization and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Leads a practice/vertical/client account, delivering consulting and growth
• Develops and manages client relationships and opportunities
• Directs sales activities, bids and proposals to meet revenue targets
• Manages delivery teams with focus on quality and client satisfaction
• Drives thought leadership and industry impact through IP and papers
• Ensures utilization targets and strategic planning

Job description

Job Description

Role Purpose

Partners are expected to lead a practice/vertical/client account and are responsible for the sales, consulting delivery, growth and people development. They are responsible for developing and managing client relationships, identifying new business opportunities, capturing and converting premium consulting opportunities into sustainable engagements for Wipro, improving maturity of consulting services and delivering impact on Wipro s business. The Partner must achieve personal billability at high fee rates.

Do

Consulting Execution

• Achieves utilisation target. An ambassador for Wipro tenets and values
• Focuses on quality of assignments led by the practice and ensures client satisfaction and strong client feedback
• Build strong client relationships across client organisations and Wipro. Recognised as an industry leader and expert
• Manages practice and teams to ensure the right balance of delivery and business development
• Collaborates with other practices and builds bespoke propositions from understanding of offerings and client business
• Stimulates demand for solutions by adding fresh insight or customising to meeting evolving client/market needs
• Cognizant of and applies industry best practices and standards in consulting delivery teams

Business development

• Ensures high levels of individual and team utilization in line with the levels expected as part of the goal setting process.
• Directs larger sales activities, bids and proposals
• Facilitates pull through revenue for wider Wipro services. Sponsors sales initiatives, campaigns and events
• Manages a practice sales pipeline to support revenue targets (personal and practice). Manages a revenue target as agreed with manager
• Develops and delivers against the practice business/strategy plan. Has a demonstrable pipeline of leads, opportunities and proposals
• Has an effective network of client contracts at executive/buying level. Establishes a consulting presence in accordance with the account plan for targets
• Coordinates sales activities and meetings across the practice. Able to sell/major/complex assignments involving multiple practices/service lines
• Negotiates commercials with clients (and in conjunction with sales team if appropriate). Leads marketing and prospecting activities to populate the sales funnel. Carries the practice/client account quarterly and annual revenue and order book targets
• Builds an opportunity pipeline with clients/s through consultative selling and collaborates with other consultants and sales teams in sales activities
• Ensures and effective level of senior stakeholder mapping and relationship (CXO and functional heads level)

Thought Leadership

• Recognised as an industry thought leader and ensures all thought leadership is shared with GCG/Wipro is one of the various channels. Responsible for leading, challenging and explaining current, emerging and future industry trends and themes. Heads the development of industry leading thought leadership/insight in practice area and ensures adequate thought leadership for own practice to support growth
• Ensures case studies and track records are utilized across Wipro in sales efforts. Presents Wipro thought leadership at external industry forums. Able to demonstrate the impact of said thought leadership. Ensures thought leadership is utilised externally and generates sales opportunities

Contribution to Practice/Wipro

• Continually delivers all Wipro admin in a timely manner (timesheets, appraisals expenses, etc.,) Owns and drives a system to manage internal initiatives to the benefit of the practice. Evangelizes the importance of innovation and IP creation
• Holds people accountable for leveraging IP and knowledge assets from the central knowledge repository of Wipro and GCG and promotes reuse
• Ensures the practice engagement teams effectively contribute tools, methods and assets, information sources and IP to the knowledge management platform. Encourages the team to create and share IP, PoV/White papers, represents the company at strategic industry and analyst conferences
• Ensures the practice has market relevant capabilities and service offerings, ensures a recruitment service pipeline to support future business and new capabilities and service offerings. Builds active partnerships including, but not limited to solution providers, alliance partners, and analysts
• Participates in industry solution related networks, serves on a committee, presents papers, etc. Manages team targets and goals in line with practice plan

Deliver

Deliver growth in consulting revenues improving the quality, margin and maturity of the direct consulting business, together with relevance and impact within the SBU/SL. Achieve business performance for direct consulting against relevant quarterly/annual targets. Improve quality of consulting by increasing strategic advisory and transformation projects, deal value, billing rates, level of business sponsorship and outcome value based deals. Lead end-to-end sales cycle, developing a portfolio of clients and pipeline of opportunities. Lead and deliver consulting engagements including client expectation management, quality control and delivery assurance, issue management, client insight and value capture, work planning and execution, and effective client communications. Develop and deliver against the practice business/strategy plan % Revenue Achievement (actual vs. target) % Revenue generated from Consulting Project Work vs Staff Augmentation % Revenue from IP/Solutions against Overall Revenue % of Personal Utilisation Achievement (against target) % Consulting business outside CIO s office No. of referenceable clients, testimonials Average CSAT across projects Penetration into GCG Top 30 Accounts Number of clients empanelled with Consulting Framework/Rate Card Number & $ value of integrated consulting deals, with min. 2 consulting services involved Average engagement team size

Grow market positioning for Consulting and Wipro through breadth of client relationships, insight and thought leadership of our clients strategic themes, Digital leadership, marketing and analyst positioning

Elevate Wipro s competitive positioning in the market / analyst communities through consulting thought leadership & participation in analyst quadrants, waves, reports, briefings, etc. Represent Wipro in internal / external industry forums that create value. Elevate Wipro positioning in existing accounts through thought leadership and leading clients strategic transformations. Lead the development of thought leadership/insight for the practice to support business growth. Develop senior level relationships beyond CIO organisation and open new streams of business Eminence and thought leadership on Solution Innovation demonstrated through content, citations and testimonials: Number of white papers authored, Number of senior level thought leadership sessions/ roadshows with clients delivered from the front Marketing/Awareness Building: Number of speaking/round table/key-note engagements in leading industry forums Analyst Relations: Improvement in the positioning of consulting business in analyst quadrants, waves and other industry reports Evidence of assets like Repeatable IP, Frameworks & Methods contributed and distributed

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. Come to Wipro. Realize your ambitions.

Applications from people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, caste, creed, religion, gender, marital status, age, ethnic and national origin, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, political orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Wipro is committed to creating an accessible, supportive, and inclusive workplace. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to all applicants including persons with disabilities, throughout the recruitment and selection process. Accommodations must be communicated in advance of the application, where possible, and will be reviewed on an individual basis. Wipro provides equal opportunities to all and values diversity.