S&C Global Network - Strategy - MC - Industry X – Product & Platform Engineering – Manager

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Management Level :  09 - Consultant

Location: Bangalore/ Gurgaon/Pune/Mumbai

Must have skills: Agile Product Manager from consulting background

Consultant - Product & Platform Engineering 

Job Summary: 

As a Management Consultant in our Product & Platform Engineering team, you will leverage your consulting experience to drive product management, agile transformation, and value engineering initiatives. Together, let’s unlock new growth opportunities for clients across the globe and build a better world. As a part of this high-impact team, you will help drive the following: 

Responsibilities: 

Product Management:  

• Facilitate end-to-end product development and launch strategies Lead the development and execution of end-to-end product strategies, aligning with client business goals, enhancing customer experiences, and maximizing value.  

• Drive cross-functional collaboration to ensure efficient and effective execution of platform strategy and roadmap, providing strategic guidance.  

• Harness techno-functional skills in software development, microservices, cloud enablement, platform design and systems integration. 

• Adopt a granular and hands-on approach: Focus on delivering new products, analyze data and identify areas of improvement to positively impact business. 

Enterprise Agility:  

• Agile Coach: Drive end-to-end project delivery in an agile manner driving transformative strategic value and business growth 

• Develop a plan for the adoption of Agile (domain-wide / enterprise-wide) and use techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency. 

• Design Strategies: Designing strategies for adoption and improvement of Agile for organizations based on customer requirements and educate, conduct user review sessions 

• Educate, suggest tools and provide training for organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies using Agile-coach techniques and collaborate across roles including Product Owners and development teams. 

• Promote a culture of experimentation and innovation 

• Agile thought leadership: Maximize business value through effective application of lean-agile mindsets and tailored frameworks. 

Agile Tooling:  

• Be an Agile tooling Coach: Drive end-to-end project delivery in an agile manner driving transformative strategic value and business growth. Enable the tooling aspects of setting up an agile organization or software delivery. 

• Advise tool selection: Advise the stakeholder on the selection and configuration of the right tools to meet the client-specific needs. 

• Develop Agile adoption strategies: Build efficient, transparent and cohesive teams to enable better outcomes, solutions and products/services. 

• Implementation of Agile methodologies: Educate, recommend tools and provide training for organization-wide adoption of using Agile-coach techniques and collaborate across roles including Product Owners and development teams. 

• Agile thought leadership: Maximize business value through effective application of lean-agile mindsets and tailored frameworks. 

• Promote a culture of experimentation and innovation. 

Value Engineering:  

• Translate business objectives to outcomes: Engage with internal and external stakeholders, understand business needs, create technology road maps, prioritize the delivery approach, and guide technical leads in solution delivery. 

• Drive intelligence in devices and services: Scale new tech to promote business benefits and impact of the platform as well as track and monitor the value delivered. 

• Work cross-functionally to ensure efficient and effective execution of platform strategy and roadmap. 

Business Role:  

• Lead comprehensive market analysis and develop strategic roadmaps. 

• Develop and manage strategic stakeholder engagement plans. 

Product Domain Focus:  

• Lead market and competitor analysis, driving product strategy and data-driven decision-making. 

• Lead feature definition and prioritization, aligning with strategic product goals. 

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role: 

• 5+ years of experience in technology product management, software engineering, software architecture, solution design and engineering delivery with 2+ years of Consulting experience 

• Proven track record of delivering high-impact engagement programs and compelling messaging for media, internal stakeholders and clients. 

• Thorough understanding of Agile and Lean practices such as Scrum, Kanban, Pair programming, Test Driven Design, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery 

• Creating a collaborative environment to interface with executives, platform owner, enterprise architects and development teams during implementation of solutions 

• Analytical mindset and quantitative skills to be able to use hard data and metrics to generate insights and develop business cases 

• Ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple and logical manner 

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to anticipate, understand and respond to changing client needs. 

• Strong strategy and consulting skills with a background in asset integrity 

• Team building skills to collaborate, work and motivate teams with diverse skills and experience to achieve goals 

• Leadership skills along with strong communication, problem solving, organizational and delegation skills to nurture and inspire team members 

• Client handling skills to develop, manage and deepen relationships with key stakeholders 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• MBA preferred. 

• Consulting background is not mandatory. 

• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting. 

• Experience with Agile tooling is a plus. 

• Experience with relevant Industry domains (IT/ITES, Healthcare/Pharma, BFS) is a plus. 

• Experience with ServiceNow, MS Dynamics, or Enterprise/Solution Architecture is highly desirable. 

Your experience counts! 

Prior experience in the following areas: 

• Extensive work experience as Agile Coach or Scrum Master, with an in-depth knowledge of DevOps 

• Certifications such as CSM, SAFe Agilist, CSPO, PSM, CDA, PMI-ACP will be an added advantage 

• Certifications from PMI on product management. Knowledge of product management specific tools like, aha!, etc. 

• Knowledge of setup, configuration and maintenance of tools to enable an Agile delivery model. That means expertise across tools like, Jira, Rally, Zoho Sprints, Jenkins, CHEF, Ansible, Jmeter, etc. 

• Deep expertise on developing product enhancement business case / models, developing value driver trees, statistical analysis, ML driven analysis of customer / platform use data, etc. 

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