Strategic Development Director

Position Description:

We are a global company of owners who shape the direction of our company and our own careers. CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, and after 40+ years, we're still growing! The best version of us starts with you! ® Join CGI as a Director of Consulting Services (DCS) in Salt Lake City, UT

The best version of you starts with a willingness to evolve and continually challenge yourself. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a portfolio of engagements for one of our financial services clients. This leader will have senior management responsibility with a significant focus on business development and delivery of consulting/products/services to our client. You will also manage a sub P&L, client relationships and members while maintaining profitable growth year over year. We come together as teams with a diversity of backgrounds to solve the complex business and IT challenges with comprehensive services for leading organizations around the world.

Our ideal candidate should possess deep financial services domain experience, specifically in the field of IT and related delivery capabilities to clients. You will be responsible for bringing solutions and thought leadership to our clients, work well in collaborative environments, be highly motivated by delivering excellent services to our clients and ensuring their satisfaction. Together we achieve meaningful results for our clients, invigorate the lives of our colleagues, and work to strengthen the communities we call home.

As the DCE, you will lead a team of senior consultants and consultants that will be part of your delivery organization. You will lead strategic pursuits, guide proposal building and orals presentations to create business solutions based on client growth requirements and market-driven business enhancements. Your team will take accountability for the winning of competitive proposals and the successful executions of assignments, projects and large delivery programs coordinating with local and global delivery centers.

Employ and leverage your experience and creativity to design, propose and execute solutions for complex client problems in advanced business and technology environments.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Overall accountability of service delivery to our clients. • Develop a strong pipeline of opportunities within new and existing accounts within the portfolio. • Be the driving factor in proposals and evolve solution offerings. • Provide leadership to a team of professionals - both direct reports and via global delivery. • Ensure success of engagements using global delivery and vendor partners. • Manage client satisfaction in partnership with account management teams. • Apply delivery and customer management best practices. • Apply best practices such as succession planning, member performance reviews, and finance management. • Contribute to business strategy and budget planning. • Manage profitability of engagements.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

A minimum of 8 years of experience in leading medium to large teams of IT professionals• At least 10 years of experience defining, selling and delivering business and information technology solutions to the financial services sector.• A minimum of 5 years of experience managing a P&L within a consulting organization (or a significant management role within a practice) with a focus on both sales and delivery.• Demonstrated ability to create and implement a growth strategy in a consulting services environment. • Results oriented business leader with solid understanding of budgets, forecasting, planning, P&L's, complex pricing models and contracts management.• Business development including strategic sales planning.• Building and maintaining relationships with C level client executives with a goal to become their trusted advisor.• A keen, flexible and solution oriented intellect; superior conceptual thinking as well as analytical and problem solving skills. • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, at all levels.• Bachelor's degree required. Masters degree is a plus.• Ability to travel as required.

Skills:

• Oracle Exadata
• Banking
• SQL
• Shell Script

What you can expect from us:

Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients' digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today - one of the world's largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

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