Principal Business Advisor

Advisory Client Partners (ACPs) are strategic quilt weavers – bringing together strategy, business value, and design thinking to help clients envision, plan, and build their organization’s future state. ACPs are adept at identifying pain points, inefficiencies, and opportunities across enterprise organizations. They keep up with industry news and insights by scouring Harvard Business Review, Forrester, and Gartner and bring extensive expertise to each client engagement.

As an ACP, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. The skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Partnering with client executive teams (C-suite, VPs) to clarify and define organizational strategy and goals related to business and digital transformation
• Collaborating with business executives and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to define, prioritize, and baseline business value measures
• Leading cross-functional teams of experts in digital strategy, human experience, process and governance, and organizational change to develop people, process, and technology roadmaps and plans
• Providing ongoing guidance in client relationships as a most trusted partner
• Identifying and implementing opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments
• Expanding Hitachi Solutions' footprint by partnering with internal sales team to identify and pursue new client opportunities

Requirements

• A direct and practical work history in a management consulting firm and/or digital agency is desired for this lead role
• Proven ability to not only be an "executive whisperer," navigating complex situations and conversations with the most senior executives in an organization but able to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences at all levels
• Ability to skillfully facilitate large-scale workshops, stakeholder interviews, and focus groups to both senior group and large groups within an organization
• Expertise in drafting business cases for people, process, and technology initiatives as they impact the future state of a client
• Significant familiarity with enterprise/business systems, preferably Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics, and Microsoft Power Platform
• Go-to-market/sales expertise, including solution selling and maintaining a portfolio of projects under management