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Functional Assistant Manager
About the job Functional Assistant Manager
Roles & responsibilities
Workstream Leadership & Delivery Management
- Lead end-to-end delivery of transformation workstreams, including scoping, planning, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
- Manage risks, dependencies, RAID items, and delivery assurance activities to ensure consistent execution quality.
- Drive synthesis of insights, shape solution options, and articulate clear recommendations for executive stakeholders.
Functional Architecture & Operating Model Leadership
- Design target operating models, capability architectures, service blueprints, and future-state functional frameworks aligned to strategic priorities.
- Translate strategic objectives into scalable, platform-enabled functional designs that integrate with CRM, CDP, Marketing Cloud, and Service Cloud ecosystems.
Customer Strategy & Experience Transformation
- Lead customer journey re-design, VOC measurement frameworks, process optimization, and experience enhancement initiatives.
- Define performance models, KPI trees, and value realization mechanisms for customer functions.
Platform-Enabled Transformation Execution
- Provide senior guidance on functional-technical alignment, backlog prioritization, and acceptance criteria review.
- Oversee functional governance for Medallia programs (survey architectures, dashboards, text analytics, closed-loop workflows).
- Partner with product/engineering leads to ensure solution integrity and adherence to transformation objectives.
Client Leadership & Advisory
- Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership teams, facilitating structured workshops, problem-framing exercises, and decision- making forums.
- Develop and deliver high-impact executive presentations, business cases, and transformation roadmaps.
Team Leadership & Practice Contribution
- Coach and mentor Associates and Consultants, ensuring capability uplift and high-quality delivery.
- Contribute to practice accelerators, frameworks, thought leadership, and proposal development.
Required Skills & Expertise
Consulting & Leadership Skills
- Strong problem-structuring capability, able to break down complex issues into actionable workstreams.
- Proven stakeholder management at senior levels, with strong influencing and facilitation skills.
- Expertise in business storytelling, strategic synthesis, and executive-level communication.
Functional Expertise
- Deep understanding of Marketing, Sales, Service, and CX functions and their operating mechanics.
- Strong command of journey mapping, process design, VOC measurement, and performance governance.
- Experience designing scalable functional architectures integrated with enterprise platforms.
Technology & Platform Acumen
- Strong working knowledge of CRM, CDP, Marketing/Service Clouds.
- Experience contributing to or overseeing Medallia CX programs beneficial.
- Familiarity with AI/ML use cases across customer functions.
- Proficiency in the consulting productivity stack (PowerPoint, Excel, Miro, Jira, Confluence).
Qualification
- B.E./B.Tech/MBA
- 7 – 10 years of consulting or customer transformation experience.