About Zinnov:

Zinnov is a 22 year old niche consulting firm with core expertise in globalization, digital engineering, and digital transformation services. It helps companies with digital disruption in business operations to achieve higher throughput, innovation, productivity and cost savings. With our team of experienced professionals, we serve clients across Private Equity, TMT, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Financial Services & Retail industries in US, Europe, Japan & India.

The Globalization Excellence team at Zinnov helps companies optimize their global engineering and digital footprint by offering end to end services and customized solutions that includes globalization strategy, global capability center (GCC) set up and management, and GCC advisory and transformation.

Please visit www.zinnov.com and our Linkedin Page to learn more about the Globalization Excellence team (25) Zinnov - Globalization Excellence: Overview | LinkedIn

Our customer focused approach backed by a strong presence and excellent capabilities resulted in several industry recognitions: Best Management Consulting Firm 2023-24: North America Business Awards, Company of the Year 2023-24: International Business Awards ("The Stevies"), Best PE Advisory Firm (USA) 2023-24: Global Excellence Awards, Best Firms to Work for 2023-2024, Top 50 Consulting Firm CEOs of 2023: The Consulting Report, IAOP Global Outsourcing 100 Firms, Great Place to Work CertifiedTM

Job Objective :

- As Engagement Manager, you will be closely working with the Management Team for practice development, project delivery for the clients across various industry sectors.

- You will need to work with the project team to provide data-driven and analysis-rich deliverables deriving strategic insights as per the client requirements.

- You are also expected to work on business development activities and provide thought leadership.

- Possess subject matter knowledge to lend additional credibility and add value at all stages and levels.

Job Overview :

- You would typically be working on multiple projects and responsible for end-to-end project delivery.

- You will be working closely with your project teams to guide them to conduct in-depth secondary research and primary research, apply analysis techniques and derive interesting and meaningful insights for our clients.

Primary Responsibilities :

Leadership :

- Collaborate with client's global departments, leadership, and key stakeholders to assess current state operations and establish future state business process and technology road maps.

- Assist the client in in setting attainable project goals for established solutions.

- Build relationships with stakeholders and internal teams, engage in daily problem solving, resolve ambiguous issues, monitor risks, and bridge communication between project teams, business units, and leadership.

- Work with cross-functional team members as needed in a leadership, management, or hands on capacity.

- Create/use project documents, established best practices and regulatory guidelines to prepare and present optimal business process and technology solution options to stakeholders and leadership.

Strategy and Consulting :

- Assist clients with business/technology strategies based on priorities, budget, cost analysis, current state, and future needs.

- Assist leadership in balancing technology timelines to align with vision, constraints, and risks.

- incorporate new system(s) and optimize business processes using best practices approaches.

- Provide implementation expertise and assist in establishing global roll out strategies, postproduction operations and/or global shared services centers.

- Provide guidance and resource planning estimates for all phases of project.

- Facilitate the establishment of employee and stakeholder engagement strategies.

- Create strategies, manage, and execute change management initiatives for large, complex Global Technology Transformation projects spanning multiple divisions and using best practices.

- Extensive experience managing and administering change on projects with multiple stakeholders.

Business Development and Solutions :

- Contribute extensively to the business development process, support sales teams in closing deals by participating in client calls and pitching solution.

- Design solutions based on client's requirements; define engagement structure including resource requirements, project travel, effort estimates and proposal pricing strategies.

- Responding to RFPs, generating leads, building proposals, Events, etc.

Practice and Organizational Development :

- Assist in development and building of the practice team.

- Collaborate with senior management in development and enhancement of knowledge nuggets and thought pieces, methodologies and frameworks, website content development, etc.

- Also build sales collaterals such as whitepapers and capability decks.

People Management :

- You would be typically working with Principals/Partners for Project Delivery to deliver projects end to end.

- Lead and motivate all resources in the team, help them in coaching and skill sets buildings, including practice specific training and development initiatives.

- Coach team with respect to conducting primary and/or secondary research and validate findings of team members.

Required Skills & Personal Attributes :

- Should have GCC/GBS strategy/advisory experience

- Extremely detail-oriented with high standards for written and visual presentation of information as well as idea.

- Excellent research, analytical, and numerical skills.

- Ability to develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis.

- Should be hands-on with exceptional execution/delivery capabilities.

- Process orientation and high level of comfort with usage as well as customization of Technology tools.

- The candidate should be able to work on client engagements at all levels including CXO levels.

- Self-driven with a high level of motivation and energy a strong 'can do' ability and willingness to work in a small and fast-growing set-up.

- Ability to pro-actively identify ways to contribute to firm's goals & mission.