ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

Role Purpose

Associate Consultant is the first step in the consulting ladder. The role is responsible for completing high quality in-depth analysis and research to support successful completion of consulting projects. They will also support the practice through data collection, market research and analytics. The Associate Consultant must achieve high personal billability.

Key Responsibilities

• Consulting Execution

• Act as an ambassador for WIPRO tenets and values.

• Be client-focused and tenacious in approach to solving and achieving client objectives.

• Organize work competently and ensure timeliness and quality deliverables.

• Develop understanding of best practice in a given area and industry knowledge, and apply this under supervision.

• Business Development

• Ensure high levels of individual utilization achievement in line with goal setting.

• Anchor market research activities in the chosen area of work.

• Support sales activities as required.

• Begin to understand WIPRO's core service and consulting offerings.

• Help identify additional sales opportunities and work with assignments / practice leadership to pursue them.

• Thought Leadership

• Build understanding and insight into chosen industry and technology trends.

• Contribute to team thought leadership.

• Ensure a track record is written up of own assignment and, where appropriate, ensure it is written up as a case study.

• Educate and build awareness within the team on Wipro guidelines on revenue recognition, pricing strategy, contract terms, and MSA.

• Ensure Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team.

• Employee Satisfaction and Engagement:

• Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team.

• Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team.

• Contribution to Practice/Wipro

• Continually deliver all Wipro admin in a timely manner (timesheets, appraisals, expenses, etc.).

• Be visible and engaged within own practice, proactively participate and make a demonstrable contribution to internal activities.

• Contribute to the IP and knowledge management of Wipro and GCG and ensure its availability on the central knowledge management repository.

• Leverage tools, methods, assets, information sources, and IP available within the knowledge management platform.

• Engage with other Consulting and delivery teams to enhance collaboration and growth.

• Make use of common methods and tools which are proven to work.

Strategic Objectives

• Deliver growth in consulting revenues.
• Improve quality of consulting by flawless delivery of consulting engagements.
• Enable pull through business/impact for Wipro through front end consulting engagements/deal pursuit/client relationships.
• Support the development of thought leadership/offerings/assets for the practice to support business growth.
• Support GCG Account Lead/Account team to grow consulting service portfolio.
• Grow skills and capabilities to deliver consulting engagements in new industries, business themes, frameworks, technologies.
• Self Development - Min 32 hrs on training in a year. Combination of online and classroom on new industries, new business themes, new technologies, new frameworks, etc.
• Individual contribution to People Development and Collaboration Effectiveness.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Mandatory Skills: AWS Cloud Operations

Qualifications

None explicitly stated in the provided text.