Practise Director

Boss Professional Services

Practise Director

Boss Consulting is one of the markets fastest growing business transformation consultancies, with a pedigree of successfully engaging and delivering some of the largest and most complex transformation programme globally, enabled by SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce etc

We partner with large international businesses, support them on their transformation journeys, defining IT strategies and designing future operating models. We are currently growing rapidly and are looking for a Practice Lead to join our leadership team on the next phase of our mission.

You will have had a successful career to date within consulting and looking to continue to grow and be challenged within a new environment offering you the chance to shape your role within a young and dynamic company.

We are looking for someone who has strong experience in delivering major ERP Technologies who can own the client delivery relationship, develop proposals, and lead client engagements. You will be involved in programmes from the initial engagement through to realisation, managing key stakeholder relationships, building from within and outside of your network, and working as a point of escalation.

Programme Delivery

• Senior manager across functions, technologies, and territories at multiple blue chip companies
• 10+ years experience, 8 of which as a manager or senior manager, responsible for both consulting and client-side resources
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to communicate successfully and diplomatically with all levels of the organisation, from analysts through to C-level sponsors and stakeholders
• Confident in shaping teams by identifying and engaging appropriate internal and external resources
• Experienced in all aspects of the project implementation life cycle, including building, and developing teams
• Exceptional programme management experience, strategic, but able to drop into the detail and become hands on as required
• Business Development
• Account owner and management, overall responsibility for shaping and delivering projects and growing accounts
• Business Development (Pre-sales) experience in securing new business, preparing proposals and contracting
• Partner contact for SAP UK with responsibility for building relationships with partners
• Experienced in all aspects of the vendor management process

IT advisory & Technical consulting

• Ideally wide range of consulting & implementation skills, concentrated around S/4HANA and/or MS Dynamics
• Provider of strategic and functional management advice to blue chip organisations with gravitas and personality to convince
• Have defined and managed delivery methodologies and project governance

About You

You are highly motivated, a self-starter (we won’t be micro-managing you!), confident and a genuine team player, strong communicator with a personable demeaner and comfortable in changing environments. You are organised, focused and outcome oriented, having proven experience in delivering complex technology enabled transformation programmes. You are honest, trustworthy and have high levels of integrity a expect the same from us.

Benefits

• Full Time preferred but part time/flexible working considered
• Hybrid role (Home Office, Client Office, Our Offices)
• Competitive basic & bonus scheme, generous holidays, pension contributions, personal development with investment in recognised training.

Culture & Ethics

We achieve our successes through teamwork and respect for our colleagues, clients, and the world around us. We look for positive people to join our team, who are ambitious and want to progress whilst being challenged, no day is the same, we take that head-on and embrace the opportunity to consistently learn. We understand the importance of employee wellbeing, so we encourage a positive life balance, and we also like to have some fun along the way.

Responsibilities in typical role (Principal Consultant/Senior Project Manager)

• Simultaneously leading multiple teams in solution delivery
• Managing international roll-outs of transformation programmes
• Presales and business development experience
• Delivery of ERP solutions into customers
• Advising clients on their transformation implementation strategies
• Overall responsibility and sign-off for all stages of the implementation life cycle (requirements, specification, build, test, change management, promotion to production, support)
• Direct project reporting line to C-level project sponsors and accountable to multiple internal stakeholders
• Responsible for selling the enterprise solution to all key stakeholders
• Headed up the SAP HANA investigation team, looking hands-on at the technology
• Directly involved in all aspects of the vendor management process (RFI, RFP/ITT, negotiation, vendor selection, business cases, contracts, statements of work, on-site engagement) for both software and services