Principal IT Management Consultant

Exceptional opportunity with award winning IT strategy and CIO advisory consultancy for bilingual or native German-speaking IT Management Consultant

The employer:

Our client is an award-winning IT strategy and CIO advisory management consultancy, helping to empower IT leaders to drive innovation and accelerate change.

Their outstanding success is a direct result of investment in both high calibre people and the provision of exceptional advisory and consultancy services in the areas of IT and Digital strategy, sourcing, technology transformation and optimisation. They work across all business sectors with a truly impressive client list and exceptional levels of repeat business.

Their consultants facilitate and lead strategic IT change programmes, helping organisations to become more agile, collaborative and adaptable. They partner with client companies to achieve sustainable value from their IT investments, often focused on the adoption of emerging and disruptive technologies.

The role:

To deliver complex or multiple client assignments with a high commercial impact, technical complexity or strategy focus

• To manage teams on larger assignments
• To lead and support bids, proposals and client business development workshops
• To support the development and introduction of new services to existing and new clients
• To manage one or more delivery accounts, being the primary consultant liaising with the client about all day-to-day aspects of the relationship, developing business within the account and managing overall client satisfaction and profitability, acting as a trusted advisor

Why Apply:

Exceptional team spirit and open, inclusive culture evidenced by very low staff turnover

• Experienced and very high calibre colleagues
• Established client base and leading-edge innovative projects
• Keep up to date with the latest thinking on emerging technologies
• Play an active role in a fast-growing organisation
• Fast track career growth

You:

• Are a native German or bilingual speaker as well as fluent in English
• Will have worked as an IT Management Consultant in an established management consultancy practice as a permanent employee
• Experienced in the design of operating models in a DevOps/Agile environment
• Able to apply rich and in-depth expertise to the development of IT strategy options/recommendations, promoting cost optimisation as an embedded mindset
• Able to build a coherent and executable case for change and communicate this with confidence to senior stakeholders
• Knowledge of a variety of current and future technologies and innovations and how they may impact different organisations/verticals
• Able to promote digital acceleration in Cloud, Customer Channels and Data, Cost Optimisation and End User Solutions
• Experienced in Technology and Transformation roadmap development including business case benefits definition and realisation
• Knowledge of sourcing drivers such as build versus buy and cloud versus traditional arguments

• Knowledge/understanding of EA frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF, Zachman and ArchiMate

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Location and mobility:

The office is in Düsseldorf but Consultants can work from a home base anywhere in Germany. Post lockdown you will need to be mobile as required and willing to stay at client locations for up to 3 days/week

Salary and package:

Base salaries in the range €90,000 – €98,000 + generous performance related bonus + benefits

We can only accept job applications from bilingual or native German speakers who meet the essential criteria above and have the current Right to Work in the EU

WE REPLY TO ALL JOB APPLICATIONS! Please note that we will not send your CV to any third parties without your explicit consent.

Please apply to Sheila Bradbury, in strictest confidence, quoting reference: 6052-SB