Kyndryl Consult Partner for Retail Industry (m/f/d)

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward - always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

The Role

Kyndryl Consult is seeking an experienced Consult Partner for key clients in Retail Industry to help drive exceptional customer IT outcomes, guide clients digitally transform their business, reduce risk, deliver operational excellence, continuously measure, and achieve their digital transformation value while solving their mission critical challenges. Leveraging Kyndryl's mission critical global strength and the leading technology capabilities of our Global Practices (Cloud, Mainframe, Networking and Edge, Data & Application, Security & Resilience and Digital Workplace).

As a Consult Partner, you will play a vital role with the industry client and Kyndryl account teams, building senior level relationships and driving value-based outcomes. You will have opportunities to lead small teams of practitioners on multiple projects advancing your career in one of the fastest growing IT consulting businesses globally.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Proposing, closing, and delivering customized client engagements that provide valuable assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for technologies/platforms across our Kyndryl Consult portfolio to drive a modernization agenda
• Developing and maintaining relationship with key client stakeholders; developing pipeline and originating deals with C-level clients; leading pursuit teams; leading and contributing to the proposal development and negotiation process
• Teaming with existing account team leadership to facilitate account planning
• Bringing deep industry-centric, technical thought leadership, success stories and points of view on IT modernization
• Identifying land and expand opportunities - leveraging consulting entry points to drive bigger transformational programs

Who You Are

Job Qualifications

• Extensive experience and recent proven track record in IT Consulting or IT Management Consulting with regional or global consulting firm (Big 5 or boutiques) with delivery and business development success and growth
• Established history combining consulting, sales, and delivery; experience delivering workshops, assessments, strategies, roadmaps, designs, and deployment plans
• Demonstrated record creating & executing client transformation programs to drive strategies, optimization, and modernization
• Track record of developing and expanding client relationships with executive focus, proven ability to present strategic content and drive transformation across a broad range of stakeholders (executive, tech, etc.)
• Differentiated industry expertise in Retail and depth across technology and IT trends, challenges, solutions, market dynamics, competition, and peer group activities
• Demonstrated ability to shape large complex, multi-competency deals across the Kyndryl Practices portfolio (e.g., Cloud, Applications, Data/AI, Network & Edge, Datacenter, Security, Resiliency, and/or Digital Workplace Services)
• Experience with Statement of Work / Contract development, iteration, refinement, negotiation, and deal closure
• Development of business cases with return-on-investment analysis
• Deep experience working with hyperscalers (AWS, Azure and GCP) across large optimization, migration, and modernization solutions. Familiarity with their methods, ways to partner and cloud capabilities
• Understanding and articulation of the vision for modern engineering (e.g., agile, cloud native, DevOps) and operations (e.g., observability, automated response, SRE etc.) and ability to articulate a path toward a target operating model (people, process, and tools)
• Very good German and English language skills

This position is classified in job family "ST2" according to the applicable IT collective agreement. Your actual salary will be agreed in a personal interview,

taking into account your professional experience and qualificatios and might be

significantly higher than the minimum salary under the collective agreement.

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it's how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we're not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you - and everyone next to you - the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That's the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter - wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

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