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The Capability Lead usually operates in a large country environment and takes guidance from the senior leadership team, globally and particularly within region.
The primary objective of this position is to lead, manage and implement a consistent and sustainable practice aligned to and in support of the overall business strategy. This employee will fulfil business development, practice development and product management functions that accelerate success within the assigned geography / practice. He/she ensures that the practice is grown in line with the global solutions and services strategy and contributes to the development of the practice strategy.
What You'll Be Doing
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Contributes to the creation of the regional practice strategy and develops the strategy for their practice to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Lead and manage the transformation and growth for selling the particular practice across the assigned geography and portfolio and/or solution.
- Owns and optimizes the solution portfolio investment for the owned business solutions for their clients, aligning with the business strategies and priorities.
- Identify and create demand for solutions that drive sales and ensure the financial viability for deployment, preparing and reviewing cost estimates.
- Lead and manage a team of individual contributors and ensure performance goals are constantly reviewed and achieved.
- Ensure the facilitation of regular practitioner or delivery training activities on relevant topics and subject matter.
- Support and maintain a community of practice where information and best practices can be shared.
- Collaborate with a variety of internal stakeholders to create, implement and manage a technology roadmap that articulates the positioning, capabilities and features for enablement of delivery capability.
- Work with relevant stakeholders to document and manage the formal plan of record including business outcomes, release plan, investment plan, resource plan, assumptions, risks and issues.
- Lead and conduct solution design reviews to ensure capacity to provide the solution and the profitability to the business, whilst ensuring client requirements are met.
- Make recommendation on the development the service level agreements (SLA) and conduct the required reviews to ensure deliverables are met.
- Define and implement standards and tools for new solution architecture and deliver continuous delivery frameworks that will promote and establish a reliable and competitive practice.
- Recommend continuous integration for tooling to support regions with automated build, test and deployment with a focus on continuous improvement in quality delivery.
- Specify market requirements for current and future products or solutions by conducting market research supported by client engagement sessions.
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:
- Significant knowledge of the business and products / solutions
- Ability to own and mature the relationship with their clients to achieve high levels of client satisfaction
- Demonstrate good persuasion and influence ability
- Substantial management and leadership skills and are able to think at a conceptual level
- Strategic thinking ability coupled with tactical operational management skills
- Possess excellent communication skills (both verbally and written)
- Ability to interact with a variety of stakeholders at a senior level
- Good domain expertise of the solution market
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Relevant Bachelor's degree or Master's level
- Relevant certifications
Required Experience:
- Significant demonstrated experience in a pre-sales/sales and/or solutions practice leadership role
- Significant demonstrated experience managing and leading a team of technical and non-technical individuals
- Significant demonstrated experience in a technical role
- Significant demonstrated experience in proposal writing
- Significant demonstrated budget management experience
- Significant demonstrated project management experience
- Significant demonstrated business development experience
Workplace type:
Hybrid Working
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.
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