Senior Manager Strategy and Consulting | Dubai, UAE

Company Name: Publicis Sapient
Location: UAE

Business Consultants At Sapient Focus Primarily In Three Key Areas

As a Senior Manager at Publicis Sapient you will play a leadership role in developing innovative strategies to improve business performance for our clients. This individual will work on a broad range of projects to develop business, operating, and technology strategies. This individual should assume the role of the client’s trusted advisor and drive innovative strategies to improve business performance.

• Business Problem Solving – Take ambiguous and complex business problems and using research and business assessment capabilities, define the problem, drive innovative ideas, define the opportunity set, and recommend actionable next steps.
• Informed Business Decision Making - Bring rigour a client’s decision making process by performing detailed cost/benefit analysis, presenting and evaluating solution options, and driving consensus among key stakeholders. In some instances, we help our clients develop new decision frameworks and governance processes that continue to deliver value far beyond a particular engagement.
• Solution Planning - Define, scope and plan new solutions for clients. This includes determining how to measure business results, modelling current/future business processes, gathering business requirements and identifying the organisational changes required to successfully realize the benefits of the solution.

Primary Responsibilities

• Problem identification, structuring work streams and engagement planning
• Managing key tracks of work (including other individuals) in accordance with established budget, work plans and quality standards
• Develop and apply conceptual frameworks and analytical approaches
• Lead client interviews and workshops
• Lead the gathering and prioritization of business requirements based upon business and user needs and technology capabilities
• Lead financial analysis and business case development
• Conduct secondary research, data collection and market/competitor analyses
• Review, document and assess client operations
• Develop and present solutions and recommendations
• Produce requirements documentation according to project needs
• Create strong working relationships with clients in business and IT roles
• Support business development activities including client proposals
• Work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams with user experience, creative and technical team-mates
• Support practice development activities including recruiting & community building
• Live, support and espouse our core values.

Experience Guidelines

• Ideally, 8 + years consulting experience (or equivalent) with ideally, at least 5 year of managing clients. Please note our level of experience requirements act purely as a guide, and we will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills and knowledge necessary to fulfill the role.
• Ability to understand, communicate, and manage across the entire project life cycle
• Ability to structure and plan business analysis and change management tracks for large projects/programs
• Ability to interact confidently and effectively with senior clients
• Experience leading teams and motivating others to take action
• Strong experience in process mapping and process redesign
• Broad knowledge of technology trends and relevance to client’s business
• Ability to apply technology in an appropriate way to meet business requirements
• Creativity with an eye to developing new and innovative solutions
• Strong problem identification and analytical skills
• Experience conducting primary and secondary research & analysis
• Financial analysis and business case development
• New business opportunity identification
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to create & deliver clear, powerful & concise presentations/proposals
• Ability to plan and manage time and resources, establish priorities and meet goals
• Highly proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Significant travel may be required as much of the work is done at the client site.

Omni-channel Commerce Experience

Ideally the individual will have experience of omni-channel commerce programmes, enabling online selling via desktop, mobile and tablet, and in-store devices. Knowledge of fulfillment , customer service and in-store operations is also desirable.



Education

Ideal candidate will be educated to degree level or have equivalent industry experience.


Flexibility and mobility is required to deliver this role as there may be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients to enable delivery of the first class services we pride ourselves in.

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. As digital pioneers with 20,000 people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession – combined with our culture of curiosity and relentlessness – enables us to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  Business DevelopmentSales

• Industries

  Information Technology and ServicesComputer SoftwareInternet