Our client is an international consulting company, its business in Russia is a full-service team of strategists who bring together management consulting, product management, user experience, data analytics and software development competencies in order to help clients transform existing businesses and build new ones. They are are leaders in digital innovation and digital business building, helping clients to reimagine and capture innovation opportunities as well as strengthen the performance of existing digital assets and capabilities.

The team provides portfolio of the following innovation services:
- Innovation strategy development
- Digital transformation
- Digital business incubation
- Set up of corporate VC funds and accelerators

Currently they are seeking brilliant candidates to join their Moscow office and work with them to help their clients think and perform innovatively and achieve their most challenging goals. They look for candidates who are creative thinkers - bold and unafraid, driven by a passion to help their clients innovate their business models and achieve excellence in existing ones. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate a blend of talents and skills, including intellectual ability, strong analytic skills, imagination and creativity, curiosity, ability to work in a team environment, high energy level, professional integrity, and leadership potential.

Main Objective
Manager will be responsible for leading project delivery team, planning project activities, developing storyline, challenging consultants on their analyses, managing subcontractors, support leadership in business development activities across company's innovation service portfolio, managing client relationships and people management.

Priorities of the Position
- To lead project delivery ensuring top-notch quality as well as clear fact-based storyline;
- To manage cross-functional project teams (consultants, client employees, product managers, UX/UI, developers, data analytics);
- To lead innovative delivery model within rapidly changing environment;
- To support Directors and Partners in business development activities;
- To contribute to the practice development by developing junior colleagues.

Critical Competencies
Functional Expertise:
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of digital solutions available in the market to address current and emerging business issues;
- Able to manage full cycle MVP development;
- Disseminate functional best practice across the entire organisation.

Commercial Orientation:
- Capitalise on existing and generate new profit making initiatives whilst applying disciplined risk and return criteria; act quickly on emerging commercial opportunities;
- Look beyond the numbers in making value decisions, combining hard facts and personal insight;
- Anticipate evolving commercial trends and focus the business activities accordingly.

Strategic Orientation:
- Articulate evolving innovative priorities for the business within three to five years’ horizon and incorporate understanding of other relevant industries;
- Integrate variety of information and combine priorities of different stakeholders into clear definition of innovations strategy;
- Understand the business and see big picture, evaluate options and plans against anticipated trends in the industry.

Collaboration and Influencing:
- Bring people together to achieve results as a team, facilitate the sharing of best practise across business functions;
- Actively engage colleagues to make joint decisions, use understanding of others and self to work more effectively together and actively resolve conflicts;
- Take calculated risk to advance a collaborative relationship, foregoing personal objectives for the benefit of the group if necessary.

Change Leadership:
- Promote change initiatives in the client organisation in the field of digital innovations;
- Openly question conventional approaches or traditional ways of doing things;
- Challenge the status quo motivating others to pursue and communicate opportunities for change, mobilizing them to be change agents.

Team Leadership:
- Leverage explicit understanding of strength and weaknesses of team members;
- Empower the team to identify and solve problems collectively while providing necessary support;
- Create a clear sense of team identity and hold teams accountable for meeting collective goals, educate team members so that they know how their roles relate to others on the team.

Additional attributes
- 6+ years of consulting and entrepreneurial experience related to business strategy, new technologies and innovative solutions;
- Experience in product management and IT teams management;
- Experience in PMO, office of transformation or other internal consulting department is a plus;
- Knowledge and practical experience with Agile and Design Thinking methodologies is a plus;
- Evidence of strong expertise in the industry of digital services;
- Business-level fluency in English, Russian is a must;
- Relevant Master’s degree from a reputable university, MBA degree would be desirable.