Practice Partner

**Practice Partner NZ Consulting at DXC Technology**

**Why join DXC Technology?**

At DXC we pride ourselves on delivering excellence in everything we do. What this means for you is the opportunity to be a part of delivering innovative solutions and helping to solve real business problems for a wide variety of valued clients. Be a trusted advisor to our clients and great leader to our practice management team in New Zealand.

**What you will be doing**

Reporting to Managing Partner - Business Consulting, we are seeking a Practice Leader to provide external client-facing consulting services around areas such as business, transformation, digital, technology.

**What will keep you busy**
- Provide external client-facing consulting services within a specific business-focused practice
- Lead c-suite level of customer engagement
- Drive business development opportunities for consulting engagements and solutions
- Drive leadership and mentorship to assigned consultants within the practice, guiding staff development, project delivery, sales generation, and related client relationships.
- Manage client expectations and balances the needs of the company and the client to promote satisfaction for both.
- Performs consultative selling and leverages best practices and experiences to win new engagement business.
- Communicates in formal presentation settings including medium to large sized groups of key decision makers at the executive level
- Select and hire employees. Train, motivate and evaluate employees to enhance staff performance and develop employees.
- Provide input to operating and personnel budgets for approval. Monitor spending for adherence to budget, recommends variances as necessary.

**The skills you will bring**
- Senior level experience within a sales and delivery environment in a consulting or large organisation environment
- Leadership skills to coach and guide team members with delivery and pre-sales responsibilities, managing competing priorities to deliver required targets every quarter
- Capability to drive design leadership, oversight, and engagement across multiple consulting offerings to market
- Deep understanding of public/private sector, with a network of relationships at senior levels
- Deep understanding of private and public sector clients and expertise in developing solutions and leading advisory engagements. A network at senior levels and a track record in building meaningful relationships in major accounts by becoming the trusted advisor / thought leader and supporting the required sales disciplines
- Excellent client engagement, communication, and presentation skill
- Alignment with DXC values - Deliver; Collaborate; Community; Care; and Do the right thing

**Your working environment**

Our ‘people first’ mindset comes to life offering the ultimate in working flexibility. We take a virtual first approach and our teams are spread across multiple geographies delivering a broad range of customer projects, which means we can tailor working arrangements that work for our people.

No matter where you are located, you’ll never feel alone and will always be supported with our diverse range of employee interest and social support groups. Whatever your passion, you will be amongst friends - from #PetsofDXC to photography, cycling or cooking groups, or we welcome you to make your mark and start your own group.

**Our culture and benefits**

DXC is committed to building better futures for our customers, colleagues, environment, and communities. We take care of each other and foster a culture of inclusion, belonging and corporate citizenship. We put this to action developing and implementing societal initiatives within our Social Impact Practice. #WeAreDXC

As an employer of choice, our “people first” philosophy means we offer competitive remuneration, benefits, training and career opportunities that reflect our commitment to improving the lives of our employees, and the communities in which we live and work. Some of these include;
- Extensive resources to support your onboarding and continual development including DXC University
- DXC Recognition, our global virtual platform that fosters a culture of appreciation and celebration with real-time reward and recognition
- We know that great people refer great people. We will reward you when you bring your friends and family to work at DXC
- More time to do the things you love with flexible leave options, including purchased leave
- Take time to give back with charitable and emergency services volunteer days
- Well-being matters to us and our Employee Assistance Program is there to support you and your family
- And of course, all the basics; novated leasing, discounted health insurance, paid parental leave and many other discounts

**How to apply**

**We are an Equal Opportunity Employer**

DXC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we welcome submissions from people from all walks of life. We celebrate our diversity and recog