GN-I&E- Comms and Media Lean Telco Exec

Overview

Lead the reinvention of telco operating models for global Communications & Media clients, moving them from high-CAPEX/OPEX, low-return positions to AI-first, lean and agile operating models.

What you'll do

• Lead Lean Telco engagements from strategic diagnosis through value targeting, roadmap design and execution mobilization.
• Shape client ambition and target state across Lean Telco strategy, business model reinvention, operating model reinvention and cost/productivity transformation.
• Lead company-wide transformation programs covering Network, IT & Platforms, Sales & Marketing, Customer Service and other adjacent functions.
• Drive restructuring and carve-out workstreams, including separation models, governance design, shared services, service catalogues and transition planning.
• Create business cases, value driver trees, KPI baselines, savings estimates and value realization dashboards for leadership-level decision-making.
• Facilitate senior stakeholder workshops, SteerCo updates, transformation governance cadences and cross-functional planning sessions.
• Develop assets, methods, thought leadership, proposals and reusable delivery approaches for the Lean Telco capability.
• Coach and mentor consultants and analysts, ensuring delivery quality, structured problem solving, client readiness and professional development.
• Support global sales teams to identify and win opportunities, lead proposals and business-development efforts, and create consensus-driven deliverables as a domain expert.

What you'll need

• Minimum 8-14+ years of progressive telecom, strategy consulting, transformation, operating model, cost optimization or technology modernization experience.
• B.Tech/BE + MBA from reputed/Tier 1/Tier 2 institutes preferred, or equivalent rich telecom, consulting and transformation experience.
• Executive stakeholder management skills, including C-suite engagement, strategic workshop facilitation, SteerCo communication and board-level storytelling.
• Experience leading multi-workstream transformation programs, setting up governance cadences, managing RAIDs and dependencies, and driving outcome-based execution.
• Experience shaping AI transformation pursuits, developing solution narratives, commercial frameworks and AI-led transformation proposals & delivery.
• Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop consulting teams while ensuring delivery quality, structured problem solving and client readiness.
• Deep expertise in telecom operating model transformation across Network, IT & Platforms, Sales & Marketing, Customer Service, Corporate Functions and adjacent telecom domains.
• Ability to shape Lean Telco strategy and transformation ambition, including future-back roadmap design, AI-first operating model definition, value architecture and investment case development.
• Experience defining transformation roadmaps, execution priorities and value realization governance to drive measurable cost, productivity, cash-flow and operating model outcomes.
• Experience leading customer, commercial and service operations transformation across customer care, contact center, service operations and Lead-to-Cash journeys.
• Expertise in customer journey redesign, digital self-service, Customer 360, CRM/CPQ enablement, Quote-to-Cash transformation and AI-assisted workflow redesign.
• Experience conducting process diagnostics, process mining and value discovery to identify productivity, customer experience, revenue growth and revenue leakage reduction opportunities.
• Ability to define future-state operating models, eTOM-aligned process architectures, AI/Agent-enabled operating models and transformation roadmaps across care, sales, channel and commercial operations.
• Experience developing business cases, value levers, benefits realization frameworks and workforce optimization strategies for transformation programs.
• Experience leading IT reinvention across BSS/OSS, ITSM and enterprise IT service management environments.
• Expertise in IT operating model and service management design, including incident, request, problem and change management transformation.
• Experience defining service operations redesign, workflow orchestration, automation, AIOps and AI-enabled IT operations strategies.
• Ability to conduct process assessments, workflow mining, service request optimization and productivity improvement initiatives across IT operations.
• Strong experience leading telecom restructuring, business separation, carve-out, portfolio rationalization and simplification programs.
• Expertise in separation strategy, transition planning, Day-1 readiness, future-state operating model design and legal entity design considerations.
• Experience assessing infrastructure and asset boundaries in separation scenarios (network, IT, shared platforms).
• Familiarity with partnership, monetization and value-based operating models in the context of telecom portfolio and structural transformation.

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI/GenAI/Agentic AI use cases across telecom operations, customer care, IT service management, sales, marketing, finance, procurement or HR.
• Experience designing multi-agent enabled operating models, including human-in-the-loop checkpoints, agent guardrails and orchestration across process, IT and customer domains.
• Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks, LLMOps/MLOps concepts and enterprise AI platforms such as Azure AI, Databricks, AWS or GCP; relevant AI, Agentic AI, cloud or industry certifications.
• Knowledge of BSS/OSS platforms and COTS products such as Amdocs, Ericsson, Netcracker, Salesforce, ServiceNow or equivalent platforms.
• Certifications such as PMP, Prince2, SAFe, CSM/PSM, CBAP, eTOM, Lean Six Sigma or relevant telecom/process certifications.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru / Gurgaon / Pune office.
• Level 07 to 06 (Strategy Manager & Senior Manager).