Professional Services - Director
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About the Role
SimCorp is seeking a Consulting Director to drive growth by shaping and selling high-value services, lead client engagements, and manage a team of SimCorp Dimension experts. The role involves people leadership, client delivery, and business development within the EMEA region, focusing on the Middle East & Africa.
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Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and inspire a high performing consulting team
- Lead performance management, career development, and compensation discussions
- Coach and mentor consultants to drive growth, engagement, and retention
- Create a culture of continuous learning, feedback, and knowledge sharing
- Own recruitment, onboarding, and capability building within your team
- Allocate resources effectively, balancing business needs and individual aspirations
- Act as a trusted advisor to consultants on delivery challenges and professional growth
- Foster strong collaboration across local and global practices
- Own project profitability, quality, and client satisfaction
- Apply SimCorp and industry best practices to maximize delivery impact
- Lead pre and post sales discussions relating to project scoping and rollout
- Accountable for project execution capacity and coordinating resources during sales phase
Requirements
- Strong understanding of asset management / asset owner operations and processes
- Experience delivering complex transformation programs in multi stakeholder environments
- Proven ability to deploy and scale standard solutions
- Strong people leader with ability to coach, inspire, and develop talent
- Track record of delivering complex projects with high quality and control
- Excellent prioritization, planning, and execution capabilities
- Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills
- Ability to navigate complexity and manage stakeholders effectively
- Collaborative mindset with strong team and cross functional engagement
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Why This Role Matters
- As a Consulting Director, you play a dual role: Drive growth by shaping and selling high value services and deliver impact by leading successful client engagements & a successful consulting team.
- You will build and manage senior client relationships, ensuring long term satisfaction and trust.
- Lead, grow, and inspire a team of high performing SimCorp Dimension experts.
- Contribute to the Services strategy, support execution, with a focus in the Middle East & Africa.
- As part of the EMEA leadership team, you will directly influence our regional success and help scale a high impact consulting organization.
What You Will Be Responsible For
- Build, lead, and inspire a high performing consulting team.
- Lead performance management, career development, and compensation discussions.
- Coach and mentor consultants to drive growth, engagement, and retention.
- Create a culture of continuous learning, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Own recruitment, onboarding, and capability building within your team.
- Allocate resources effectively, balancing business needs and individual aspirations.
- Act as a trusted advisor to consultants on delivery challenges and professional growth.
- Foster strong collaboration across local and global practices.
- Own project profitability, quality, and client satisfaction.
- Apply SimCorp and industry best practices to maximize delivery impact.
- Lead pre and post sales discussions relating to project scoping and rollout.
- Accountable for project execution capacity as well as coordinating resources during the project sales phase & secure quality of all (contractual) deliverables.
What We Value
- Strong understanding of asset management / asset owner operations and processes.
- Experience delivering complex transformation programs in multi stakeholder environments.
- Proven ability to deploy and scale standard solutions.
- Familiarity with SimCorp Dimension is an advantage but not a prerequisite.
- Strong people leader with the ability to coach, inspire, and develop talent.
- Ability to build trusted, senior client relationships.
- Track record of delivering complex projects with high quality and control.
- Strong decision making skills, balancing risk, cost, and quality.
- Excellent prioritization, planning, and execution capabilities.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Ability to navigate complexity and manage stakeholders effectively.
- Collaborative mindset with strong team and cross functional engagement.
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