Digital Transformation / CIO Advisory - Management Consultant - Junior Position

Company Description

Wavestone is a global consulting firm with over 5,500 professionals across 17 countries, dedicated to helping organizations navigate complex business and technology challenges. We combine deep industry expertise with a comprehensive portfolio of transformation services—including business strategy, data strategy, cybersecurity, and digital transformation to name a few—to deliver measurable results. Our collaborative approach ensures tailored solutions for each client, with a strong presence in key industries such as Financial Services, Energy, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Insurance, etc.

In North America, Wavestone operates from offices in New York City, Pittsburgh, and Canada, working closely with CEOs and technology leaders to optimize IT strategy, sourcing models, and business processes. We’re committed to building lasting partnerships with our clients and fostering a culture of growth and innovation within our team. From day one, Wavestone consultants are immersed in high-impact projects that accelerate their development as confident leaders and trusted business advisors.

Join us for a rewarding career in management consulting, offering competitive compensation, continuous learning, and many opportunities for professional growth. Shape the future of consulting and make a lasting impact - Apply now to join our team!

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Job Description

The objective of our North America teams involved in the digital transformation/CIO advisory projects is to help position Wavestone as the trusted advisory partner of Chiefs Technology Officers (CTO) and Chiefs Information Officers (CIO) in their most ambitious technological and organizational transformations.

Facing the accelerating business and digital transformations and the more intense market competitiveness, particularly from new players in the tech sector, Chiefs Technology Officers (CTO) need to respond to the following challenges:

• IT Strategy and Planning: Align IT to business goals: Assessments, Roadmaps, M&A Integration, Cloud Migration and Adoption, Digital Business Modeling and Implementation
• Sourcing & Optimization: Optimize service delivery model: IT & Business Process Sourcing, Cost Reduction (~40%), Streamlined Vendor Management, Benchmarking
• Data management: Build a data-driven organization: Innovate with data, Leverage data as a business asset, Create and foster a data culture

These challenges translate into exciting and complexes consulting projects. These assignments can be summed up as follows:

• Defining new modes of digital collaboration, modernizing tools and the digital work experience, boosting the adoption of new digital tools for a major pharmaceutical account
• Defining the strategy for a world leader in the energy sector to transform its information system towards the Cloud, framing this transformation in financial, technological and organizational terms, and then managing its implementation.
• As part of M&A operations, managing the IT autonomation program for a unit of a major industrial group: scoping and execution of projects across all application, infrastructure and organisational perimeters.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engagements managed by more experienced consultants from whom you will learn the basics of consulting core competencies.  

• Work with teams on projects for the business lines, functional teams, and technology departments of our clients from strategy definition to implementation
• Bring strong learning abilities and be proactive to better develop consulting skills and become more autonomous. 
• Perform accurate assessments and analysis of client activities, manage day-to-day client relationships at peer client levels and assist clients in the effective use of management systems, tools, techniques, group problem-solving, and team building. 
• Structure, write, and deliver quality work documents with oversight from others, ensure all information related to the assignments is circulated correctly, and alert colleagues/superiors of any difficulties. 
• Collaborate/Coordinate across the different Wavestone teams to participate in local and global firm development.
• Continue to up-skill and stay current with the market, through our apprenticeship style coaching and our learning and development programs
• Contribute to the firm’s development activities such as business development (i.e. proposals, market offers, white papers, etc.) and/or team development activities (i.e. recruitment, training, social events, office culture,