Senior Director, Delivery (Telecom)

Director, Delivery (Telecom)

Welcome to TELUS Digital where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canadas largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

In January 2023, TELUS Digital acquired WillowTree, creating a combined firm with service offerings spanning Customer Experience and Digital Solutions.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas : Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location & Flexibility

Our Director, Delivery - Telecom, is an integral part of our team at TELUS Digital and our Telecom client. To help retain our deep culture of collaboration, this role will be based in Denver, CO, or St. Louis, MO.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a dynamic leader to manage a portfolio of clients, specifically in the Telecommunications space (generally ~$10-15MM in revenue), in a global service delivery model. This leader spends a significant amount of their time overseeing the successful delivery of project work in their portfolio, coaching teams, and proactively developing relationships with executives and key client stakeholders to offer their expertise and partnership. This position is primarily evaluated on delivery success, team feedback, client feedback, growth of key accounts, forecast accuracy, and profitability of their portfolio.

Responsibilities

Four key pillars of responsibilities :

• Building our Company
• Partner with Global VP and other practice area leaders to determine best path for growth and management of accounts.
• Ensure delivery solutions are integrated into future capabilities and practice area growth.
• Partner with practice area leaders and BD to create relevant quals that can be leveraged to build new business.
• Drives teams to provide fresh perspectives, breakthrough ideas, and new paradigms that can be leveraged to grow accounts.
• Identify and contribute to areas of the business that bring additional value, i.e. interviewing, training, contributions to the delivery playbook, etc.
• Initiates, influences and drives organizational changes and business transformation.
• Focusing on Customers
• Builds client relationships across the executive ladder and regularly conducts quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and other meetings to understand feedback, communicate team progress, establish value propositions, and drive change.
• Proactively and organically communicates across client relationships to surface industry thought leadership and best practices.
• Provides effective oversight of delivery work, mitigating risk, improving practices, and strengthening client trust.
• Develop and manage strong, lasting relationships with key clients.
• Leading our Market
• Ensure contractual obligations are upheld.
• Builds relationships and takes account of the needs of multiple stakeholders to influence and drive decisions for beneficial business outcomes.
• Delivers presentations, workshops, and conversations that highlight the work and impact of TELUS Digital
• Identify new client opportunities, and determine priorities and solutions that enable TELUS Digital to meet those opportunities
• Developing our People
• Engages directly with teams to understand in-flight work, and uses end products where possible to drive performance as part of the team
• Create clarity with teams through the unique challenges inherent at each stage of client engagements
• Provide people management to consultants and / or client managers and career coaching / guidance
• Provides real-time feedback, coaches, and mentors staff at all levels of the org in a manner that drives them to excel
• Partner with Practice Area Leaders to determine priority capabilities and competencies for growth
• Builds high performing teams by integrating a diversity of skills and personalities and creating a shared purpose.

Competencies

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What We'll Offer

In addition to a great culture and interesting work with opportunities for growth and development, this position is eligible for the following benefits :

Annual Performance Bonus

This position is eligible for an annual performance bonus based on personal, division / business unit, and company performance. The range displayed is only the annual base salary. To maintain equity across the business, annual performance bonus targets are determined by job level, not individual circumstances.

Individual base salaries are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons determined during the interview process. Salary bands are periodically reviewed and updated based on market changes, internal needs, and industry trends. To maintain pay equity for team members, TELUS Digital conducts regular compensation audits.

Annual Base Salary Range (Performance Bonus Eligible)

$168,000 - $210,000 USD