Project Lead II

Overview

Own consulting engagements end-to-end and lead high-stakes workstreams in technology-led domains within Zinnov's Globalization Excellence practice, which helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers.

What you'll do

• Own engagement delivery from first contact to final output, including scope, timelines, budgets, quality standards and risk management.
• Lead multiple projects in parallel and manage dependencies, risks and execution trade-offs to ensure predictable delivery.
• Drive customer delight through clear alignment, strong outputs and a high-quality client experience.
• Guide teams on primary and secondary research approaches and ensure strong fact bases and data validation.
• Review analysis to extract trends, patterns and insights, qualitative and quantitative, that strengthen recommendations.
• Validate strategic recommendations and ensure outputs are tight, defensible and decision-useful.
• Own client communication and expectation management, including requirements clarity, cadence, updates and delivery alignment.
• Engage effectively across CXO and senior stakeholders while working seamlessly with working teams.
• Manage research partner and external vendor relationships where applicable.
• Contribute to business development by participating in client calls and pitching solutions.
• Design engagement structures, including resourcing plans, effort estimates, travel assumptions and proposal and pricing inputs.
• Develop proof-of-concepts when needed and shape proposal narratives and sales collateral.
• Partner with senior leaders to drive practice priorities, vision, capabilities and repeatable methodologies.
• Build reusable assets such as frameworks, knowledge nuggets, thought pieces, whitepapers, capability decks and website-ready content.
• Support practice team building through hiring inputs, onboarding and capability development.
• Lead and motivate teams and coach them on research depth, analytical rigor and consulting-grade communication.
• Set execution standards and review discipline to ensure consistently high-quality outputs.
• Drive skill building through structured feedback and practice-specific training initiatives.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from a top-tier university.
• 4-8 years of experience in consulting, research, strategy or analysis-heavy roles with end-to-end project delivery exposure.
• Comfort working across technology-led industries and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Excellent business writing, verbal communication, and presentation and storytelling skills.
• Strong research, analytical and numerical capability with a rigorous, structured problem-solving approach.
• Strong execution and delivery ownership, hands-on, detail-oriented and timeline-driven.
• Strong stakeholder management across CXO and working teams.
• Process orientation with comfort using and customizing technology and tools for delivery.
• High ownership, proactive mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-growing environment.

Nice to have

• MBA or PGDM.
• International experience.

Details

• Location: Koramangala, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.