Managing Director, Business & IT Transformation

Immediate opportunity. May 2021 Start. YES—WE ARE HIRING NOW.

Are you a dynamic, highly motivated leader and consultant with a history driving technology-enabled business transformation in the world’s largest organizations? Are you an outstanding communicator, presenter, facilitator and organizer, skilled at moving business and technology organizations to accelerate significant change? Are you an experienced technologist, intimately familiar with innovative, SAFe agile approaches to solution design, development and deployment? Are you an outstanding program leader, with the capability to clearly define objectives, scope, requirements, and roadmaps, and assemble and align the resources to accelerate business results? Are you looking for your next role on a fast path to senior executive leadership?

WNA is seeking a Managing Director of Business and IT Transformation to lead and drive significant, enterprise level technology change initiatives in telecom and other industries. This WNA leadership position will collaborate with, advise and direct WNA team members, client senior executives and team members, and other vendors to implement customer-focused business and technology transformation. We seek self-driven leaders who have a passion to solve complex problems. Quick learner with willingness to flex into new areas, and have strong relationship building and solution selling skills.

Key Qualifications

• Success leading large Business and IT Transformation programs and teams in Fortune 500 companies as a consultant or internal program leader.
• Drive strategy to solution to impact. ID, create and exploit opportunities for operational improvement in complex business and IT environments. Define strategy, organize, mobilize and work the hands-on delivery.
• Technology-enabled Customer Experience—experience modernizing complex agile, DevOps order to cash and care environments, and creating system functionality, availability, stability and resiliency to improve external customer and internal user experiences.
• Large scale SAFe Agile transformation and migration experience a must—experience leading organizations to accelerate business and technology initiatives using SAFe.
• Turns concepts into reality—solutioning, proof-of-concept, implementation, continuous improvement.
• Data Driven—deep understanding and use of stats & analytics to move from data to information to insight to solution.
• Anticipates potential problems, identifies risks, and plans contingencies.
• Seeks to collaborate and create coalitions. Ability to process a wide range of inputs and deliver quality content on tight timelines with dynamic priorities.
• Outstanding communicator in verbal, written, presentation and multi-media form. Distills complex technical information into articulate, visual and widely consumable content for clients and senior executives. Skilled presenter and seller—creates advocates.
• Strong executive facilitation and coordination skills for requirements, design and reporting.
• Financial Management—experience with business case development, agile, quarterly and annual budgeting, forecasting, tracking process, cycles and the funding approval.
• Selling Skills – Extend and expand WNA’s client business. ID and close on new business opportunities based on solutioning, delivery and relationship development.
• WNA Evolution – Lead and contribute to the growth and development of WNA. Participate in and improve WNA selling, delivery, recruiting, retention, and knowledge capital.
• 10 – 15 years business, technical and consulting experience. Bachelor’s degree and top grades from top schools. MBA or related graduate degree.
• Telecom, Mobility, FinTech and/or Financial Services industry experience. Telecom or wireless experience in large carrier environments a plus.
• BS/BA degree in Business, CS, Engineering or related fields required. MBA or advanced degree in technical field a plus. A history of achievement including top grades from top schools.

Competencies and Attributes

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following characteristics and competencies that define the culture at WNA:

• Leadership – Inspires positive action leading to desired results; Motivates teams, both WNA and client, toward a common goal; Leads by example; Models an economy of effort and achievement; Demonstrates a standard of excellence that creates alignment around business benefits and objectives.
• Integrity – Share principles and values core to WNA, including honesty and teamwork.
• Customer Service – Responds promptly to customer needs; Solicits customer feedback to improve sales and service; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments; Manages difficult or emotional customer situations.
• Teamwork – Balances team and individual responsibilities; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others’ views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyone’s efforts to succeed.

Location: All US locations considered. Dallas, Texas or Atlanta, Georgia preferred. Remote through 2021 and potentially beyond.

Compensation: $200,000 – $275,000+ / year commensurate with skills and experience, including bonus. Significant bonus potential.

Timing / Duration: Immediate Start. Permanent position or multi-year contract, your choice.

About WNA

WNA is a global business consulting, transformation, and technology solutions provider. WNA brings leadership, solutions, acceleration, integration, risk management and business benefits to our clients’ largest, most important, and most complex business and technology challenges. We combine exceptional levels of talent, experience and innovation insights with delivery pragmatism and a relentless focus on program and project-level risk identification and mitigation to get programs done and done successfully. WNA is a dynamic environment with excellent opportunities for people who want to join a growing business and provide unsurpassed leadership and client service to some of the top companies in the world. If you have not heard of us yet, you will. WNA.

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