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We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.\nYour day at NTT DATA\nThe Director, Go-to-Market (GTM) Practice Solutions is a leadership role, typically operating in a large country environment and takes guidance from the senior leadership team, globally and particularly within region.\nThe primary objective of this role is to lead, manage and implement a consistent and sustainable practice aligned to and in support of the overall business strategy.\nThis employee fulfils business development, practice development and product management functions that accelerate success within the assigned geography / practice and ensures that the practice is grown in line with the global solutions and services strategy and contributes to the development of the practice strategy while fostering a collaborative and innovative team cultures focused on operational excellence.\nKey responsibilities:\nContributes to the creation of the regional practice strategy and develops the strategy for their practice to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery.\nLeads and manages the transformation and growth for selling the particular practice across the assigned geography and portfolio and/or solution.\nOwns and optimizes the solution portfolio investment for the owned business solutions for their clients, aligning with the business strategies and priorities.\nIdentifies and creates demand for solutions that drive sales and ensure the financial viability for deployment, preparing and reviewing cost estimates.\nLeads and manages a team of individual contributors and ensures performance goals are constantly reviewed and achieved.\nEnsures the facilitation of regular practitioner or delivery training activities on relevant topics and subject matter.\nSupports and maintains a community of practice where information and best practices can be shared.\nCollaborates with a variety of internal stakeholders to create, implement and manage a technology roadmap that articulates the positioning, capabilities and features for enablement of delivery capability.\nWorks with relevant stakeholders to document and manages the formal plan of record including business outcomes, release plan, investment plan, resource plan, assumptions, risks and issues.\nLeads and conducts solution design reviews to ensure capacity to provide the solution and the profitability to the business, whilst ensuring client requirements are met.\nDefines and implements standards and tools for new solution architecture and deliver continuous delivery frameworks that will promote and establish a reliable and competitive practice.\nRecommends continuous integration for tooling to support regions with automated build, test and deployment with a focus on continuous improvement in quality delivery.\nSpecifies market requirements for current and future products or solutions by conducting market research supported by client engagement sessions.\nTo thrive in this role, you need to have:\nFluency in technology-related topics with a natural interest in information services and technology.\nSignificant knowledge of the business and products / solutions.\nSignificant analytical mindset to secure and compare information from multiple sources to identify business issues; the ability to make sense of complex issues and ambiguous situations.\nA high degree of personal maturity and confidence.\nSignificant persuasion and influence capabilities.\nAble to work with and influence senior business leaders.\nStrategic thinking ability coupled with tactical operational management skills.\nSignificant understanding of technologies in the scope of relevant practice(s).\nSignificant understanding of project delivery methods.\nSignificant understanding of marketing communications in promoting solutions.\nSignificant understanding in solution product development.\nA change agent who publicly identifies needed changes or directions that need adjustment.\nAcademic qualifications and certifications:\nBachelor's degree or equivalent in information technology, computer science or information systems or business or a related field.\nRelevant technology certification(s).\nSAFe Agile / Project or Program Management certification(s) are desirable.\nRequired experience:\nSignificant demonstrated experience in a pre-sales/sales and/or solutions practice leadership role preferably gained within a global technology services organization.\nSignificant 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.\nSignificant demonstrated experience managing and leading a team of technical and non-technical individuals.\nSignificant demonstrated budget management experience.\nSignificant demonstrated business development experience.\nSignificant demonstrated experience implementing strategic and tactical initiatives that support the corporate strategy.\nWorkplace type:\nOn-site WorkingAbout NTT DATA\nNTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune\nGlobal 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through\nresponsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with\nunmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and\napplication services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move\nconfidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more\nthan 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as\nestablished and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each\nyear in R&D.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nNTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.\nThird parties fraudulently posing as NTT DATA recruiters\nNTT DATA recruiters will never ask job seekers or candidates for payment or banking information during the recruitment process, for any reason. Please remain vigilant of third parties who may attempt to impersonate NTT DATA recruiters whether in writing or by phone in order to deceptively obtain personal data or money from you. All email communications from an NTT DATA recruiter will come from an @nttdata.com email address. 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