Global Practice Head - Infrastructure/Network/workspace/cloud/OT Security solutions

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The Global Practice Head is accountable for developing, leading and executing strategic initiatives related to regional and global practice solutions to ensure the achievement of long-term results within the context of a rapidly evolving digital economy.

What you'll be doing

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategic and operational aspects of practice solutions, driving the achievement both short-term and long-term objectives and enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Identify key performance drivers, set challenging targets and hold team members accountable for achieving results.
• Lead and manage the transformation and growth for selling the practice solutions across the global footprint.
• Directs, owns and optimizes the solution portfolio investment for the owned business solutions for our clients, aligning with the business strategies and priorities.
• Continually strive to innovate new and differentiated offerings that are repeatable and scalable for our clients to help drive more intimate and longstanding client relationships.
• Recommend, lead, identify and create demand for solutions that drive sales and ensure the financial viability for deployment, preparing and reviewing cost estimates.
• Lead and manage a team of directors and ensure performance goals are constantly reviewed and achieved.
• Designs and implements effective leadership structures and governance models.
• Develop and manage a budget for the go-to-market practice solutions.
• Drive the development and support a community of practice where information and best practices can be shared.
• Authorise and drive the implementation of operational policies and procedures for optimal practice efficiency.
• Lead and drive solution design reviews to ensure capacity to provide the solution and the profitability to the business, whilst ensuring client requirements are met.
• Provide advice on the development the service level agreements (SLA) and conduct the required reviews to ensure deliverables are met.
• Ensure the definition and implementation of standards and tools for new solution architecture and deliver continuous delivery frameworks that will promote and establish a reliable and competitive practice.
• Recommend continuous integration for tooling to support regions with automated build, test and deployment with a focus on continuous improvement in quality delivery.
• A change agent who publicly identifies needed changes or directions that need adjustment.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Fluency in technology-related topics with a natural interest in information services and technology
• Significant knowledge of the business and products / solutions
• Demonstrated profit and loss management capability
• Thought leader and innovator with entrepreneurial mindset
• Demonstrated analytical skills to secure and compare information from multiple sources to identify business issues; the ability to make sense of complex issues and ambiguous situations
• A high degree of personal maturity and confidence
• Demonstrate excellent persuasion and influence ability
• Able to work with and influence senior business executives
• Strategic thinking ability coupled with tactical operational management skills
• Deep understanding of technologies in the scope of relevant practice(s)
• Deep understanding of project delivery methods
• Understanding of marketing communications in promoting solutions
• Understanding in solution product development

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree or Master’s level
• Relevant certifications

Required Experience:

• Extensive demonstrated experience in a pre-sales/sales and/or solutions practice leadership role
• Extensive demonstrated experience leading and innovating within a IT services organisation or practice within a consulting firm
• A track-record of implementing and leading a successful, global product innovation strategy while also delivering on short-term financial goals and longer-term operational improvements
• Extensive demonstrated experience managing and leading a team of technical and non-technical individuals
• Extensive demonstrated budget management experience
• Extensive demonstrated business developme