CTO Advisory Leader - Digital (Blockchain, AI, Predictive)
West Monroe isn’t a startup consulting firm, but we act like one.
From day one, our people have the opportunity to make a definitive personal impact for their clients and their careers. What does this mean? It means we seek out the best of the best, and then we challenge them to make us better.
If you are looking to be a “behind the scenes” technologist, this isn’t the place for you. We celebrate driven professionals who thrive in a collaborative environment. Our consultants work on front lines – partnering with clients to deliver game changing solutions in the most dynamic industries.
Think you’re up to the challenge?
West Monroe Partners (WMP) has an immediate opportunity in our Technology Practice for a proven individual in CIO/CTO advisory services and digital technologies to take on a role as Digital Technology leader to our Digital group. The leader will be expected to grow a team of national clients and partner significantly with our go-to-market teams. This role entails significant responsibility in providing provocative thought leadership, having executive presence, building a practice, and providing hands-on oversight to delivery teams. We are seeking candidates with relevant consulting leadership and deep technology experience. Most importantly, candidates should be passionate about what they do and enjoy a fun, entrepreneurial environment.
What are we looking for?
A Digital Technology leader at West Monroe Partners has the following requirements:
- Expertise – be a deep, curious, and evolving technologist that collaborates well with our go-to-market teams and provide advisory services to CIOs/CTOs on Digital technologies and design techniques, such as AI, ML, Data Science and Engineering, Data Architecture, Robotics, IoT Cloud, High-Performance Architecture and Blockchain.
- Hands-on – be a practical designer, builder and leader of Digital technology solutions for clients, able to effectively manage technical work-streams and teams in iterative development, and solve complex problems with a cross-disciplinary group.
- Communicate – proven ability to manage up and down within an organization, explain Digital in straight-forward terms, support pre-sales activities, and able to strike a balance of listening and challenging our clients.
- Brand and Competency Building – establish a Center of Excellence (COE) for Digital Technology that is known and sought out by your partners, along with a mission and desire to be on-stage and in-market creating brand awareness and sales opportunities for our Digital team
Here's what you need to bring to the table:
Client Development
- Collaborate and support new and existing client business development opportunities for the Digital group, with an annual influence revenue minimum of $2 million.
- Significant generation of weekly activities and thought leadership on Digital including participating in events, publishing, outreach and coordinated sales execution to prospects, and the pursuit of new client acquisition and brand awareness.
- Excellent understanding of client’s business needs turning those goals into concrete projects and detailed proposals.
- Provide and lead go-to-market planning an execution for Digital Technology with Industry and Functional practices
Client Delivery
- Be the technology team lead on Digital projects with an iterative development methodology, advising on solution design, technology capabilities, risk and ultimately responsible for value of solution to client.
- Communicating and influencing C-level executives and IT management on value proposition of Digital, best practices, and technical solutions spanning next-generation platforms to legacy system integrations and ETL
- Inspire and energize project teams under your direction. Mentor and manage teams of younger consultants to ensure quality of delivery and to keep projects on time and budget.
- Quickly respond to client requests for immediate issues while also being able to drive projects to completion. Ensure strong commitment to client service among all personnel on the team.
- Collaborate with our cross-disciplinary teams to determine the underlying problem and recommend proper solutions, demonstrate by clients and market to have the technical, industry and functional knowledge necessary to provide the highest quality client service.
- Demonstrate strong history of follow on work at clients and referrals of business from existing clients
Practice Development
- Lead, mentor and grow our Center of Excellence for Digital Technology actively testing, researching, learning, and developing a provocative point of view on new technologies.
- Encourage and facilitate an atmosphere of continuous learning, and establish a process for bringing forth solutions, assets, IP and best practices for Digital technologies.
- Participate actively in the recruiting process for additional consultants and thought leaders.
- Entrepreneurial desire and selflessness to give your time, energy, and passion to growing the firm’s culture and our people both inside and outside of office hours.
Qualifications:
- A BS or CS degree; post-graduate preferred. Must have 10+ years of a relevant consulting experience and group leadership
- 15+ years of technology development, solution deployment, project management and/or strategy in highly technical and analytical role
- Deep understanding of how digital strategy and solutions fit into an organization’s holistic customer experience; ability to see the “bigger picture”, and execute accordingly
- Strong interest in business models and operations
- Membership and visibility in relevant professional organizations
- Publication in designated area
- Strong iterative development methodology and ability to lead agile teams
- Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
- Strong communication skills to be able to work with clients and present to C-level executives
- Ability to travel as required managing national clients and engagement teams.
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