Grant Thornton

Technology Strategy Manager

Grant Thornton$147K — $196K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Technology, Computer Science, or related field; MBA or MIS preferred
  • Minimum 5 years of strategy consulting experience, particularly in technology-related engagements
  • Strong business writing and verbal communication skills
  • Proven experience in assessing IT organizations and aligning capabilities with enterprise strategies
  • Experience in application package selection and implementation planning
  • Familiarity with enterprise cloud assessments and roadmap development
  • Willingness to travel up to 40% for client needs

Responsibilities

  • Conduct strategic assessments of client technology environments based on best practices
  • Assist with proposal development and identify new business opportunities
  • Lead teams in application selection, solution design, and implementation planning
  • Deliver tailored recommendations and roadmaps based on client requirements
  • Analyze complex data to support clients' strategic business initiatives
  • Develop financial models and business cases for strategic projects
  • Coach and mentor team members to foster professional growth

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with flexibility for in-person collaboration
  • Access to resources and support within the broader Transformation team
  • Culture that encourages continual professional development and staying current with technology trends
  • Opportunity to contribute to thought leadership and service offerings
  • Engagement with diverse clients, including large non-profits and commercial organizations
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Technology Strategy Manager, you'll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Transformation Practice - all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

From day one, you'll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:
  • Possess a working knowledge of how a commercial or large non-profit organization functions from an organizational, operating model, process, and technology perspective
  • Continually strive to develop professionally, staying up to date on technology trends and solutions in the marketplace to address the issues companies and large non-profits face
  • Assist practice leaders and business development executives with proposal development and presentations. Identify, quantify, and scope new opportunities for GT on existing engagements
  • Lead teams performing strategic assessments of client technology environments against best practices and widely accepted maturity model frameworks
  • Develop thoughtful, value add recommendations and roadmaps that meet client needs
  • Lead teams performing application package selection, solution design, and implementation planning engagements for mid to large sized public and private organizations
  • Lead teams in the assessment of technology organizations; the alignment of capabilities to enterprise strategy, cost structure, and operating model. Develop deep and relevant recommendations and roadmaps for implementation
  • Utilize first principles thinking, customizing create frameworks and methodologies to solve challenging problems
  • Analyze complex quantitative / qualitative data and synthesize output
  • Communicate effectively in an organized and knowledgeable manner to senior audiences, able to deliver difficult messages with persuasiveness and sensitivity
  • Drive the development of business cases (financial, quantitative, and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformations
  • Build and analyze financial models and complex budgets
  • Coach and develop team members
  • Demonstrate executive presence
  • Contribute to the development of various service offerings and practice thought leadership
  • Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Technology, Computer Science, or related field required. MBA or MIS preferred
  • Minimum 5 years of related work experience in Strategy Consulting, servicing Technology related engagements preferred
  • Excellent business writing and communication skills
  • Experience in the assessment of IT organizations - capability to strategy alignment, cost structure, and operating model
  • Experience in package selection, implementation planning and application architecture model development
  • Experience with strategic IT assessment, enterprise cloud assessments and roadmap development
  • Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%
  • Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least two days per week, either at a GT office or client site

    The base salary range for this position is between $147,200 and $196,880. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton's discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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About Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton LLP is the American member firm of Grant Thornton International, the seventh largest accounting network in the world by combined fee income. Grant Thornton LLP is the sixth largest U.S. accounting and advisory organization. The firm operates 59 offices across the US with approximately 8,500 employees, 550 partners, and produces annual revenue in excess of US$1.9 billion. During the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, The Times reported that Grant Thornton is in line to earn millions of pounds for acting as trustees in a bankruptcy case on behalf of the Russian state-owned DIA, who bypassed sanction regimes to obtain funds and assets from abroad in order to fund the war in Ukraine.
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