Vice President, Consulting Services - Chicago, IL Back>>



Vice President, Consulting Services

$125-$175K base ($180-$250K total compensation)

Fantastic opportunity with a growing, publicly-held company!

Responsibilities:
-Manage a group of 14
-Front line interaction with all clients (must be open for some travel within the U.S.)
-Assume overall financial responsibility for the Professional Services & Consulting Organization in the US (PS&C) by defining, developing and implementing the partnering model and relevant processes, managing the P&L.
-Lead PS&C’s ongoing efforts by designing and implementing standard project controlling, project management, QA processes and procedures internally for client and partner interfaces; providing industry insight and Client Services best practices based on experience; and assisting in strategy development for prospective clients.
-Direct the PS&C department and its processes and procedures - both client/partner facing and internally.
-Establish project controlling project management priorities, milestones, ownership and deadlines, including interaction with other departments.
-Provide a consistent and professional communications stream to clients, partners, product management, product development and executive management.
-Learn and apply technologies as they pertain to specific client(s), and provide ongoing client-driven feedback and input to help inform product roadmap
-Coordinate specific projects (as necessary) that may include working with sales, marketing, development and accounting.
-Ensure that all aspects of clients’ initiatives are understood, communicated, and on-track
-Daily system and exception monitoring.
-Ensure all deliverables are on strategy and meet client/partner standards (act as a steward of quality and responsiveness).
-Establish a trusting relationship with client and partners at senior levels.
-Understand the partner/client environment, key business drivers, and how to help make them successful.
-As appropriate, provide value by serving as a marketing partner to the Client.
-Ensure the sustainable organic growth of the PS&C US department in line with Company’s objectives.

Qualifications:
-BA/BS degree; MBA preferred.
-Willingness to travel as needed
-10-15 years of managing a world class enterprise software consulting services and partner organization.
-Experience in a Big 5 accounting firm a plus.
-Understand software life cycle process (Java, Eclipse, Oracle, SQL Server a plus).
-Managed a large group of consulting services implementation people both directly and indirectly.
-Clear operational experience in defining and implementing the process for managing a consulting services implementation organization.
-Direct experience defining, identifying and building a successful services partner model in the US.
-Clear operational experience in defining and implementing the processes in a “blended” services model including a direct to client and direct to partner model.
-Demonstrated experience in defining the appropriate incentive programs working with partners.
-Demonstrated ability to hire and train consulting services personnel for the purpose of training partners on Company’s platform technology and implementations.
-Candidate has demonstrated ability to grow services teams organically (through hiring and training)
-Candidate brings access to network of professionals that Company could hire from.
-Experience in the PIM, Retail or eCommerce segment a plus.
-Prior P&L experience a must.
-Experience building a world class services organization to support growth in a $10m - $50m enterprise software company.
-Excellent communication skills, both oral and written along with the ability and willingness to communicate at all levels.
-Proven ability to establish and maintain strong, positive relationships with sales, R&D, services and executive management.
-Proven experience in enterprise software and architectures.
-Entrepreneurial drive and work ethic.
-Ability to thrive in a fast paced, start-up, team-oriented environment.
-Experience with German culture, German language and/or projects involving German teams a plus.


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