Practice Manager

**Position Type**:
Full time
**Type Of Hire**:
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)
**Education Desired**:
Bachelor of Commerce/Business
**Travel Percentage**:
25 - 50%
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

**What you will be doing**:

- Builds a consulting team and strategy to effectively execute business plan.
- Develops consulting offerings to address market opportunities.
- Manages key FIS channel relationships such as sales, relationship management, product management, business unit management and others ensuring continued collaboration to drive results for Practice.
- Ensures Practice provides industry thought leadership.
- Responsible for profit and loss of consulting practice including forecasting and managing to revenue and expense targets and communicating business metrics to senior management.
- Ensures generated revenue meets or exceeds plan for FIS Consulting Services Business.
- Ensures consulting engagements provide excellent client satisfaction and client loyalty.
- Manages consulting personnel including engagement staffing, staff performance/evaluations, effective communication, career planning and succession planning.
- Provides resources with right expertise to meet business needs and manage external relationships creating a flexible staffing alternative for peak demand times.
- Ensures effective utilization of resources on billable projects, asset development, sales support and thought leadership.
- Collaborates with other Consulting Practice Managers to ensure right resources are working on right work to optimize goals for the entire division based on priorities and demand generated.
- Attracts and retains talent to meet business needs for practice.
- Provides direct sales support throughout entire sales cycle working closely with sales and account management to create and close opportunities including proposal/statement of work development, negotiating pricing, project planning and giving prospect presentations.
- Maintains quality client relationships to gain referrals for new clients.
- Nurtures relationships, defines consulting engagements to support relationship needs and sells the initiative.
- Other related duties assigned as needed.

**What you bring**:

- Bachelor’s degree in business administration or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
- Minimum 7 years in management and ideally in financial services consulting
- Ability to build relationships with C-level management, peers and others.
- Broad knowledge of regulatory requirements, financial institution operations, and risk management.
- Project management, productivity, planning, and workload management skills.
- Negotiation skills regarding complex issues
- Ability to work well under pressure and keep emotions under control during difficult situations.
- Adaptable and dependable in fast-paced, changing business environments.
- Willing to travel 30% to 50% (or as needed).

**What we offer you**:

- Competitive salary
- Attractive benefits
- A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
- A modern, international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team

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**Sourcing Model**

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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