Job Specifications
Practise Director
Boss Consulting is one of the markets fastest growing business transformation consultancies, with a pedigree of successfully engaging and delivering some of the largest and most complex transformation programme globally, enabled by SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce etc...
We partner with large international businesses, support them on their transformation journeys, defining IT strategies and designing future operating models. We are currently growing rapidly and are looking for a Practice Lead to join our leadership team on the next phase of our mission.
You will have had a successful career to date within consulting and looking to continue to grow and be challenged within a new environment offering you the chance to shape your role within a young and dynamic company.
We are looking for someone who has strong experience in delivering major ERP Technologies who can own the client delivery relationship, develop proposals, and lead client engagements. You will be involved in programmes from the initial engagement through to realisation, managing key stakeholder relationships, building from within and outside of your network, and working as a point of escalation.
Programme Delivery
Senior manager across functions, technologies, and territories at multiple blue chip companies
10+ years experience, 8 of which as a manager or senior manager, responsible for both consulting and client-side resources
Excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to communicate successfully and diplomatically with all levels of the organisation, from analysts through to C-level sponsors and stakeholders
Confident in shaping teams by identifying and engaging appropriate internal and external resources
Experienced in all aspects of the project implementation life cycle, including building, and developing teams
Exceptional programme management experience, strategic, but able to drop into the detail and become hands on as required
Business Development
Account owner and management, overall responsibility for shaping and delivering projects and growing accounts
Business Development (Pre-sales) experience in securing new business, preparing proposals and contracting
Partner contact for SAP UK with responsibility for building relationships with partners
Experienced in all aspects of the vendor management process
IT advisory & Technical consulting
Ideally wide range of consulting & implementation skills, concentrated around S/4HANA and/or MS Dynamics
Provider of strategic and functional management advice to blue chip organisations with gravitas and personality to convince
Have defined and managed delivery methodologies and project governance
About You
You are highly motivated, a self-starter (we won't be micro-managing you!), confident and a genuine team player, strong communicator with a personable demeaner and comfortable in changing environments. You are organised, focused and outcome oriented, having proven experience in delivering complex technology enabled transformation programmes. You are honest, trustworthy and have high levels of integrity a expect the same from us.
Benefits
Full Time preferred but part time/flexible working considered
Hybrid role (Home Office, Client Office, Our Offices)
Competitive basic & bonus scheme, generous holidays, pension contributions, personal development with investment in recognised training.
Culture & Ethics
We achieve our successes through teamwork and respect for our colleagues, clients, and the world around us. We look for positive people to join our team, who are ambitious and want to progress whilst being challenged, no day is the same, we take that head-on and embrace the opportunity to consistently learn. We understand the importance of employee wellbeing, so we encourage a positive life balance, and we also like to have some fun along the way.
Responsibilities in typical role (Principal Consultant/Senior Project Manager)
Simultaneously leading multiple teams in solution delivery
Managing international roll-outs of transformation programmes
Presales and business development experience
Delivery of ERP solutions into customers
Advising clients on their transformation implementation strategies
Overall responsibility and sign-off for all stages of the implementation life cycle (requirements, specification, build, test, change management, promotion to production, support)
Direct project reporting line to C-level project sponsors and accountable to multiple internal stakeholders
Responsible for selling the enterprise solution to all key stakeholders
Headed up the SAP HANA investigation team, looking hands-on at the technology
Directly involved in all aspects of the vendor management process (RFI, RFP/ITT, negotiation, vendor selection, business cases, contracts, statements of work, on-site engagement) for both software and services