Senior Manager Strategy Operations Strategy – Bangalore

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Job Description & Summary

Role Overview

Designation: Senior Manager
Location: Bengaluru India

Note: Employee to be based in Bengaluru only; minimum 4 days/week in office

As Senior Manager lead the India & Mexico Enterprise & Functions Strategy team to drive US engagementsown staffing and project needs boost delivery efficiency and quality and deliver measurable client impact. Grow team capability incubate new solutions bring bold tech and industry leading points of view and support business growth through proposals and thought leadership.

What does this role entail

Our Management Consulting team works with our global clients to advise and design growth operational and customer-focused strategies for sustainable competitive advantage. Our thought leadership and unparalleled experience help clients turn formidable challenges into market advantage across the value chain and around the globe. Additionally our extensive expertise in various industries allows us to serve clients with consulting services with a focus on the most profitable elements of the value chain to create scalable businesses that will deliver increased sustainable profits.

Our Management Consultants work with the client and project teams to support global engagements from India through activities that are driven towards delivering results conduct analyses and develop insights prepare excel models analyze large sets of data capture as-is processes prepare work plans design to-be processes support project leads work directly with client teams and facilitate meetings to enable decision making organize and prepare recommendations on client issues and participate actively in new business development thought leadership and firm building

Competency Overview: Enterprise & Functional Strategy

The Operations Strategy team works with clients across industriessupporting engagements -

• Developing enterprise and functional strategy (operating model supply chain manufacturing & service operations) in partnership with C-suite executives
• Conducting operations due diligence to assess process and technology landscapes and create POVs
• Advising clients on transformationoperating model redesign network optimization S&OP/planning logistics inventory sourcing & procurement
• Developing future state strategies for Operations driven digital transformation (analytics automation GenAI)

Job Description

• Strategy & portfolio leadership
  • Prioritize demand allocate staffing and manage project requirements
  • Support US leadership to build and manage Operations strategy account pipeline
• Delivery & quality
  • Orchestrate multi workstream programs remove roadblocks and ensure client ready outputs
  • Enforce standards reviews and risk controls
• Growth & capability
  • Develop people and playbooks incubate new solutions and establish relevant multi-skilling
  • Support business growth through proposals and thought leadership

Core responsibilities of Senior Manager would entail (but not limited to)

As part of the team youll collaborate with experienced consultants and industry professionals to help clients address complex business challenges. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Own the book of work across India & Mexico hubs; set vision staffing strategy and delivery standards for ops strategy projects
• Project delivery: help teams shape hypotheses structure analyses pressure-test insights and craft Csuite-ready narratives
• Quality & risk: institute rigorous review cycles uphold independence and compliance and resolve issues/escalations promptly
• People leadership: build coach and sponsor managers and senior associates; drive skill uplift (analytics digital ops sourcing S&OP network design)
• Client development: contribute to pursuits POVs and solution assets; cultivate executive relationships with measurable pipeline impact
• Global teaming: synchronize delivery with US Partners/Directors and the Mexico pod; ensure reuse of frameworks accelerators and data models
• Operations excellence: mature methodologies (assessment frameworks diagnostic tools benchmarks) and drive continuous improvement

Knowledge Preferred:

Candidates are expected to demonstrate foundational knowledge in one or more areas of technology along with strong analytical skills to effectively understand and address client needs:

Must-have skills

• Lead India & Mexico delivery hubs translating US engagement expectations into multi-pod workplans and quality reviews
• Orchestrate multiple programs and multi-workstream engagements from planning through benefits realization aligned to client objectives and PwC standards
• Connect complex enterprise systems and value chains; identify cross-functional interdependencies and risks
• Apply advanced analytical and critical thinking to shape operations strategy and transformation roadmaps; steer value-tracking and benefits realization
• Build and challenge data-driven business cases; prioritize initiatives and investment trade-offs with executives
• Serve as trusted advisor to Partners and client senior stakeholders across time zones; influence outcomes and resolve complex issues
• Develop leaders: coach pod owners/managers and senior associates; build succession pipelines and upskill teams
• Uphold and enforce professional/technical standards risk management independence and PwC values of integrity and inclusion

Good-to-have skills

• Identify and capture value: cost optimization growth resilience and digital operations levers
• Scale GenAI automation and digital analytics across delivery; codify accelerators and playbooks
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in methods assets and delivery operating model
• Strong analytical and numericalskills and domain knowledge
• Effective storytelling andcommunication skills to various audiences (written and verbal)

Your opportunities at PwC

Learn: Develop business acumen technical and technology skills

Apply: Diverse opportunities to showcase your skills in a supportive environment

Grow: Harness your leadership potential to expand your career

Eligibility criteria

• MBA from a premier B-School
• 812 years total experience with 8 years in operations/supply chain strategy or performance improvement; 35 years leading consulting teams
• Proven leadership across multicountry delivery (India/Mexico or similar) and complex multiworkstream programs
• Advanced problem solving executive communication and stakeholder management; strong financial acumen (business cases value tracking)

Travel Requirements

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