Retail Consumer Products - Cloud Strategy Senior Manager
Company: Deloitte
Location: Cleveland
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Retail/Consumer Products Cloud Strategy/Transformation Senior
Manager
Are you an innovative thinker with a proven track record of helping
Consumer Products & Retail companies transform their workforce to
achieve their business goals?
The Consumer industry is focused on serving the changing consumer,
who has rapidly evolving needs, behaviors and preferences for
products, services, and experiences. Our Consumer Products and
Retail sector is undergoing a transformation fueled by an empowered
consumer, technology advancements, market fragmentation and
blurring lines across the industry. Organizations are racing to
compete for the consumer's attention and win share of wallet, which
is creating unique challenges to innovate, modernize technology and
transform business models with the winners ultimately seeing this
as a consumer-led renaissance.
The Team-Cloud Engineering/Cloud Strategy
Deloitte is an industry leader in our clients' Digital
transformations. We recognize that the backbone enabling our
clients' highest aspirations for business agility, velocity and
efficiency is next-gen Cloud solutions. From cloud consulting, to
implementation, and ongoing managed services we offer a full scope
of Cloud services and solutions
We help our clients see the transformational capabilities of Cloud
as an opportunity for business enablement and competitive
advantage. We want talent who is ready to innovate cloud services
and empower our clients to leap frog forward in their technical
capabilities. Building your career at Deloitte offers the
opportunity to work with cutting-edge Cloud technologies to deliver
next-Gen Cloud solutions. We embrace the tech pioneer mindset and
always enable our talent to keep their skills evolving at the speed
at which the technology marketplace is evolving
Our Cloud Strategy practice is focused on developing and executing
multi-dimensional cloud strategies that consider the platform,
architecture, security, organizational and financial aspects of
adopting cloud technologies.
Work you'll do
As a Senior Manager, you will lead and deliver large, complex
client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative
business and technology solutions for large companies. You will
contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of
ways including:
Engagement Management:
- Lead engagement planning and budgeting; mobilize and manage
engagement teams; define deliverable structure and content;
facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels
at the client; direct on-time, quality delivery of work products;
manage engagement economics; manage engagement risk.
Relationship Management of executive clients and sponsors:
- Participate in Business Development, develop and maintain
contact with top decision makers at key clients, organize and lead
pursuit teams, participate and lead aspects of the proposal
development process, contribute to the development of proposal
pricing strategies.
Practice Development & Eminence:
- Develop practical solutions and methodologies, develop
"thoughtware" and "point- of-view" documents, participate in public
speaking events, get published in industry periodicals.
People Development:
- Perform the role of counselor and coach, provide input and
guidance into the staffing process, actively participate in staff
recruitment and retention activities, provide leadership and
support for delivery teams and staff in local offices.
Qualifications
Required:
- 8+ years of experience working in the Retail industry
(merchandisers, specialty apparel, footwear, large food or drug
stores, big-box stores) corporate or retail environment. Consumer
Products space (wholesale or distribution)
- Cloud strategy, workload migration, cloud operations and
managed services work in the Retail/Consumer Products space
- 8+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience, with
proven ability to build relationships with senior business and
technology leaders
- Experience managing moderate-sized engagements (4-7) team
members
- 8+ years of experience in Cloud solutions (IaaS/PaaS/Big Data
and Analytics) Strategy and Implementation for mid or large size
organizations (this includes private/public Clouds - on AWS, Azure,
Google Cloud Platform, or VMWare)
- Experience in developing business case and TCO analysis drawing
tangible connections between cloud strategy and business-valued
financial-success metrics
- Experience in quantifying the business value of cloud and
evaluating the organizational impact of cloud adoption
- Edefining and implementing governance and restructuring IT
departments to optimally manage cloud environments and cloud-native
applications
- Ability to travel up to 50%
- Immigration: Limited Sponsorship may be available
Preferred:
- Public Cloud Certification(s) (AWS, MS Azure, GCP)
- Experience in recommending application cloud migration
dispositions (rehost, re-platform, refactor, replace, retire) based
on technical and business requirements
- Experience in infrastructure and / or cloud operations
- Relevant experience in leading reviews of clients' technology
landscapes to identify a range of business-valued cloud uses cases
and selecting the preferred public cloud platform for each use
case
- Experience in leading multi-stream cloud transformation
programs and initiatives for mid to large scale organizations
- Experience in defining business solutions (enabled by cloud) in
one or more of the following industries: Automotive, Entertainment,
Insurance, Life Sciences, Technology or Transportation.
- Experience in leading the definition of cloud adoption
strategies for large scale enterprise data and analytics solutions
and use cases
- Experience with architecting, designing, implementing, or
operating IT systems on leading commercial Cloud platforms,
including AWS, Azure, and Google
- Experience with large and complex IT systems in an enterprise
environment using virtualization or private Cloud technologies,
including VMware, Xen, OpenStack, and Hyper-V
- Practical experience with modern cloud-based operations
including experience leading teams of Site Reliability
Engineers
- Experience in designing for resiliency in the cloud, including,
an understanding of key application resiliency patterns
- Experience with modern development and testing techniques such
as continuous delivery and continuous integration
- A background in software development and experience in
configuration management (tools like Chef and puppet)
- Technology understanding of API management solutions and their
role across enabling an enterprise cloud
- Comfort presenting to and delivering projects for senior
leaders at organizations (e.g., Sr. Directors, Vice
Presidents)
- Ability to work with a multi-location team spread across global
regions
- Strong project management and delivery experience, including
budget oversight and staffing of project teams including time
management.
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the
ability to exercise mature judgment.
- Previous experience mentoring, training and developing junior
members of the team; experience in employee performance
reviews.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple task
assignments.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including
presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint). Working knowledge
and experience of MS Office applications and training development
tools.
- Located within a commutable distance of a Deloitte office.
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