Job Title: Business Intelligence Senior Manager / Practice Leader
Job Description:
Hitachi Consulting’s Business Intelligence practice is currently experiencing growth and we are looking for a professional to build out our practice in the Northeast. This person would reside near one of our offices in the Northeast: Boston, NY/NJ, orPhiladelphia. Candidates will be responsible for selling and leading full-life cycle projects implementing business intelligence and other technologies to meet our clients information needs. In addition, this person would be responsible for working within the national Business Intelligence organization to develop a strategy for building out the Northeast BI practice. This will include alliance relationship strategy execution, and the hiring of competent consultants to serve our clients.
Position Description: The position requires a broad business perspective and a willingness to step into several roles.The role is primarily client-facing, structuring projects, staffing them from both local and national resource pools, and managing projects. The position entails the leading of pursuits at prospects and existing clients, and working with alliance partners, like Microsoft, to enhance our visibility in the Northeast and to uncover opportunities at prospects. Activities will also include working with our business development professionals and marketing to support the generation of new leads through marketing campaigns and events.
Project sold and managed will include both short-term assessments (business case development for technology investment) as well as longer-term (3-9 month) implementation projects. These projects, and our role, will include the addressing of both business processes/objectives and technology requirements.
It is expected that the individual in this role be 50-60% utilized (billing hours to client(s)) and 40-50% practice development. The position is part of the leadership team for the Northeast and will participate in the development and execution of the entire strategy for the Northeast.
Required Skills:
- Mastery of Business Intelligence strategies
- Advisory skills in areas of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Implementation strategy
- Understanding of technologies (landscape of alternatives) in the marketplace
- Significant experience implementing technologies in the areas of data warehousing, business intelligence, reporting
- Strong understanding of several business functions addressed by BI solutions, including: Financial Management/Reporting; Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing
- Mastery of methodologies used to implement BI solutions
- Significant project management experience
- Experience with at least 4-5 full-life cycle implementation
- 5-12 years of consulting experience at a variety of clients
- Significant selling experience as part of a consulting sales team
- Practice management experience
- Experience supervising and leading teams
- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Bachelor Degree Required
- Masters Degree Preferred
- Understanding of the Microsoft solution offerings and/or Hyperion/Essbase
Nice to Have Skills:
- Technology development experience (custom development)
- Alliance Management experience
- Experience with Hyperion, OLAP, Infomatica, IBM, Oracle, SAP
- MS Office applications including MS Visio and MS Project
- Industry depth in Financial services, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, telecom
Travel Required: Up to 100% (Intention is for position to be primarily serving clients in the Northeast, but potential for project work outside region periodically)
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
Hitachi Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V