Sr Business Technology Consultant – Telecom & Media
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Who We Are: Excelacom is a global consulting and technology solutions firm solving client’s complex business and technology challenges through a mix of consulting expertise, telecom-focused software, and managed services within the communications and media industries.
Location: St Louis, MO
Who You Are: As a Senior Business Technology Consultant, you will be at the core of managing, understanding and responding to our clients' technology challenges. You will be working with clients as a Subject Matter Expert to advise on the impact of emerging technology trends on their Business and Operating Models. You will be integral in assisting executive leadership teams of major telecommunications firms in shaping their organization’s technology strategy, technology landscape and improving the capabilities and ways of working of their IT and Business Functions. Analytical, technical and consulting aptitude abilities will be critical as you perform and advise on project activities. You will draw on the collective experience of Excelacom globally to help shape technology transformation journeys for our clients and will deliver technology change to drive value in our client’s business. As a Consultant, you’ll contribute to client engagements by delivering insights, building deliverables, and leading workstreams. You’ll be expected to bring strong analytical thinking and a proactive mindset to solve client problems and drive transformation.
Role and Responsibilities
- You will have specific business development targets
- Program and manage technical or functional projects in the telecom space from inception through testing and release in an Agile environment
- Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
- Direct complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and solution partners through all phases of the SDLC
- Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
- Meet with your team members to give constructive feedback, coaching, and guidance.
- Deliver senior advisory services to Senior Management and above in support of technology-enabled business change, e.g.: package & third‑party integrator selection, vendor selection, application studies, solution architecture studies and/or program diagnostics and recovery
- Provide key decision support, monitoring issues and risks, and creating mitigation plans for clients.
- Lead organizational changes and business process improvements with clients.
- Decompose key business problems to identify value areas and structure and implement complex technology solutions for the client
- Create innovative and differentiated offerings, staying relevant and in sync with market demand and technology evolution
- Meet with client staff daily to understand key issues with how they operate today and identify opportunities for improvement in their operations and technology landscape
- Support the development of improved capabilities in clients across business processes, people and technology
- Develop business cases and implement roadmaps to support investment decisions
- Identify and qualify additional business opportunities
- Prepare solutions and proposals and present them to clients
- In addition to delivering at the client site, you will be tasked in productizing Excelacom’s work, contributing to our Center of Excellence and working on Excelacom proposals to customers as well.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or related field
- Prior consulting experience required – looking for 5+ years’ experience – with a leading strategy firm, Big 4 consulting practice, consulting arms of main technology firms including expertise in enterprise architecture as well as business solutions deployment.
- Prior experience in Telecommunications, Media, or Cable – must possess business industry knowledge
- Past success in generating new business with existing clients
- Highly collaborative, team‑oriented with strong stakeholder management skills
- Ability to lead project working groups and possess strong facilitation and data gathering skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication that is effective to all levels in an organization and the ability to interact with technical and non‑technical personnel
- Good time‑management skills
- Open to travel
EEO Statement
Excelacom, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Any decision affecting employment, compensation, promotion, or transfer will be based solely on personal qualifications and merit, regardless of sex, race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, disability, age, results of genetic testing, service in the military, pregnancy, childbirth or other related medical conditions or any other factor protected under applicable law.
Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type: Full‑time
Job Function: Information Technology – IT Services and IT Consulting
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