Manager, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications

Job title: Manager, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications

Job description: Overview

You’ve got big plans. We have opportunities to match, and we’re committed to empowering you to become a better you, no matter what you do.

When you join KPMG you’ll be one of over 227,000 professionals providing audit, tax, advisory and business enablement services across 146 countries.

With the support to do things differently, grow personally and professionally and bring your whole self to work, there’s no limit to the impact you can make. Let’s do this.

The opportunity:

KPMG’s Operations Advisory Practice helps organizations to develop efficient and effective operations to support strategic business objectives. We support our clients in identifying, quantifying, prioritizing and delivering the changes required to align their operating models to their financial targets and strategic objectives. This approach helps deliver timely improvements in performance and visibility, and control for long-term operating impact.

We start with the big picture, before narrowing it to reflect our clients’ most pressing concerns, focusing on continuously streamlining operations to unlock value, delivering bottom-line improvements and enhancing quality and service levels.

Our Operations Advisory practice are seeking a Manager for our Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector to strengthen our Management Consulting practice in the Toronto office. We are looking for talented professionals like you, with a proven record for motivating teams and delivering exceptional, meaningful client service.
What you will do

As a Manager in our TMT practice, you will use your strong business acumen and industry knowledge to become a key member of a high performing team. You’ll be learning from some of the best in the industry and growing your personal skillset by:

• Leading and supporting enterprise-wide strategy engagements in the TMT industry through timely project management and ensuring on-time, at-budget high quality delivery of client deliverables
• Managing the end-to-end process, including scope definition, budget and resource management, creating, coordinating, and overseeing final deliverables, and assisting with presentation of results
• Developing trusted client relationships with client project managers and managing engagement teams of up to 3-5 practitioners. You will facilitate client workshops and conduct interviews with client personnel as well as maintain our exceptional quality standards, meeting and exceeding client expectations
• Establishing client value propositions that tie key strategic, financial and operational metrics directly to near- and long-term business improvement
• Helping lead proposal development and other new business development activities by leveraging new and existing relationships with C-level executives, with support from Senior Leadership. Additionally, work with KPMG leaders to develop thought leadership, white papers and other intellectual assets.
• Growing your coaching and feedback skills through providing day-to-day guidance and mentoring to your team and supporting our Open Feedback culture.
• Growing your reputation as a trusted advisor and as a champion within the TMT network, locally and globally.
• Leveraging your strong understanding of operations, finance, and compliance/risk.

What you bring to the role

• 5-10 years of work experience in a comparable capacity in management consulting or professional services with a solid understanding of key market trends in the TMT sector locally and globally.
• University degree in business, management, operations, engineering or MBA or equivalent from an accredited university.
• Experience in one or more of the following strategy consulting areas: corporate strategy, product innovation, business model transformations, operating model and profitability improvement, data monetization, and cost optimization.
• Experience in one or more of the following industry specializations: emerging technologies (e.g. 5G, IoT, Edge) smart cities and connected solutions, network technology (e.g. Software Defined Networking (SDN), network virtualization, LoRaWAN), techno-commercial modeling of telecom networks (e.g. wireless, fibre and sensor networks), and cybersecurity and privacy.
• Comfortable working at both the conceptual and the hands-on level with big picture thinking and growth-oriented leadership skills.
• A deep understanding of the interrelationships between people/organization, business processes and enabling technologies as contributors to business effectiveness.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in working with large and complex datasets, insight generation, and data modelling and visualization
• Project execution skills including leading day-to-day execution, team management in mid-level client engagements, managing project schedule, risks and timelines.
• Strong at cultivating relationships at mid-levels – Managers, Senior Managers and Directors.
• You understand that at times, business needs arise and employees are required and agree to work beyond their normal work day or work week to fulfill the accountabilities required for their job. Likewise, people need extra time to devote to personal matters, and our approach to flexibility provides for this.

Keys to your success:

• Excellent quantitative analysis and critical thinking abilities.
• Strong analytical skills to assimilate complex information with a proven ability to translate vision and strategic priorities into operational and financial realities.
• Strategic influencing skills to effectively persuade and influence peers and senior management.

Learn more about where a career at KPMG can take you.
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• 5-10 years of work experience in a comparable capacity in management consulting or professional services with a solid understanding of key market trends in the TMT sector locally and globally.
• University degree in business, management, operations, engineering or MBA or equivalent from an accredited university.
• Experience in one or more of the following strategy consulting areas: corporate strategy, product innovation, business model transformations, operating model and profitability improvement, data monetization, and cost optimization.
• Experience in one or more of the following industry specializations: emerging technologies (e.g. 5G, IoT, Edge) smart cities and connected solutions, network technology (e.g. Software Defined Networking (SDN), network virtualization, LoRaWAN), techno-commercial modeling of telecom networks (e.g. wireless, fibre and sensor networks), and cybersecurity and privacy.
• Comfortable working at both the conceptual and the hands-on level with big picture thinking and growth-oriented leadership skills.
• A deep understanding of the interrelationships between people/organization, business processes and enabling technologies as contributors to business effectiveness.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in working with large and complex datasets, insight generation, and data modelling and visualization
• Project execution skills including leading day-to-day execution, team management in mid-level client engagements, managing project schedule, risks and timelines.
• Strong at cultivating relationships at mid-levels – Managers, Senior Managers and Directors.
• You understand that at times, business needs arise and employees are required and agree to work beyond their normal work day or work week to fulfill the accountabilities required for their job. Likewise, people need extra time to devote to personal matters, and our approach to flexibility provides for this.

Keys to your success:

• Excellent quantitative analysis and critical thinking abilities.
• Strong analytical skills to assimilate complex information with a proven ability to translate vision and strategic priorities into operational and financial realities.
• Strategic influencing skills to effectively persuade and influence peers and senior management.

Learn more about where a career at KPMG can take you.

As a Manager in our TMT practice, you will use your strong business acumen and industry knowledge to become a key member of a high performing team. You’ll be learning from some of the best in the industry and growing your personal skillset by:

• Leading and supporting enterprise-wide strategy engagements in the TMT industry through timely project management and ensuring on-time, at-budget high quality delivery of client deliverables
• Managing the end-to-end process, including scope definition, budget and resource management, creating, coordinating, and overseeing final deliverables, and assisting with presentation of results
• Developing trusted client relationships with client project managers and managing engagement teams of up to 3-5 practitioners. You will facilitate client workshops and conduct interviews with client personnel as well as maintain our exceptional quality standards, meeting and exceeding client expectations
• Establishing client value propositions that tie key strategic, financial and operational metrics directly to near- and long-term business improvement
• Helping lead proposal development and other new business development activities by leveraging new and existing relationships with C-level executives, with support from Senior Leadership. Additionally, work with KPMG leaders to develop thought leadership, white papers and other intellectual assets.
• Growing your coaching and feedback skills through providing day-to-day guidance and mentoring to your team and supporting our Open Feedback culture.
• Growing your reputation as a trusted advisor and as a champion within the TMT network, locally and globally.
• Leveraging your strong understanding of operations, finance, and compliance/risk.

Company: KPMG

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Mon, 24 May 2021 22:29:28 GMT