Associate Director, TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications), Operations Industry & Domain Solutions, Engineering, AI & Data, Technology & Transformation
Connect to your opportunity Are you passionate about operational design and delivery, and thinking creatively to solve client issues? Do you want to help diverse range of TMT organisations to undertake fundamental transformation to drive business value? Could you provide insights to help our clients make decisions, address challenges, and achieve their objectives? Have you delivered complex transformation programmes that translate strategy into execution? Can you think on your feet, adapt and pivot where necessary? If you say yes to any of these, please apply. We design, build, and optimise the operations of leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) businesses to bring their biggest ideas to life and help them to unlock the value of AI, digital and sustainability. Working with colleagues across Deloitte, we combine business design, process engineering and cost transformation in-hand with data and technology fluency to solve our clients' biggest challenges, bring the unpredictable and unknown into focus, and turn concepts into reality. To do this, we need ambitious, entrepreneurial and curious people that will drive innovation and welcome and thrive in disruption. Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way , serve with integrity , take care of each other , foster inclusion , and collaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most. Connect to your opportunity In Operations & Industry Domain Solutions (OIDS) we have always led with our industry knowledge. Our clients value the insight and expertise we bring from the wide range of organisations we work for, and the experience that brings. In the TMT sector it is no different - we have spent many years working with the largest Telco, Media & Tech clients in the UK and Globally, supporting them with some of their greatest challenges that can range from fundamental re-imagination of the Operating Model for rolling out and selling fibre, to transforming the way Media companies handle their content supply chains end-to-end. Your role will include:
- Leading client thinking in identifying areas of innovation that encourage new ways of working and enhance the existing operating model
- Leading bid teams to build and deliver compelling proposals and pitches, and supporting the end-to-end business development process
- Managing Deloitte and client teams to understand their organisations, to design and deliver Operating Models that are fit for purpose and successfully realise their strategic intention
- Leading on designing and developing business cases and identifying and/or delivering sustainable cost savings in collaboration with senior clients
- Leading on a methodical approach to research and guiding a team through analysing large qualitative and quantitative data sets to shape recommendations
- Evaluating and using emerging and innovative technologies or ways of thinking to shape strategy; design operating models, principles and roadmaps; and deliver transformation
- Assessing processes, identifying and quantifying inefficiencies and design and implementation of improvements
- Proven experience of leading successful teams, functions and programmes on time and to budget
- Acting as part of the OIDS management / leadership team: leading on performance management, proposition development, and coaching and talent management
- Leading on the strategic and operational reviews of entire organisations or functions within organisations at a system, organisation, service or functional levels
- Identifying and organising inputs and insights to lead on developing end-to-end stories to present findings and recommendations to clients
- Proven depth of knowledge of the operational dynamics and industry trends across media, telecoms and/or tech, for example:
- ServCo/NetCo & Wholesale ecosystem optimisation
- AI monetisation and automation strategies
- Autonomous and virtual network innovation
- B2B Enterprise solution delivery
- 'Customer obsession' and digital experience transformation
- Modernisation of Content Supply Chains
- Data-driven personalisation and audience engagement
- Subscription and advertising platform innovation
- New content formats and experiences (AR/VR/Metaverse)
- Intellectual Property and digital Rights management
- AI/ML application and ethical governance
- Cloud-native operating models
- Cyber security and data privacy
- Web3, Blockchain, and decentralised technologies
- Platform economics and ecosystem orchestration
- Experience of use of AI/ Automation to accelerate key operational processes and/or optimise ways of working in one of the above sectors
- Previous consulting experience, whether as an independent advisor or in-house
- Experience of a mid/senior-level operational role in at least one TMT organisation (as an employee or as a consultant/contractor) demonstrating knowledge of the overall operating model of that business
- Experience in generating and developing new business with a track record of translating these into commercial viable and operationally deliverable B2B sales
- Experience of working effectively as part of a management / leadership team