Senior Manager
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About the Role
Senior Manager - Partner Talent & Certifications will lead EXL's enterprise-wide partner talent and certification strategy across AI, Data, Cloud, Analytics, Engineering, and Agentic AI ecosystems. The role will build and scale partner-specialized talent aligned with market demand, client opportunities, delivery priorities, partner commitments, and future workforce requirements. The individual will serve as the central orchestration point across Capability Development, Technology Partnerships, business units, delivery leadership, and strategic technology partners. The role will directly contribute to talent readiness, partner status, funding realization, capability differentiation, and revenue enablement.
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Responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities:
- Partner Talent Strategy: Define and execute EXL's enterprise partner talent strategy, translating market demand, growth priorities, and alliance commitments into multi-year capability and certification plans.
- Specialized Talent Supply: Build scalable pipelines of partner-specialized practitioners, engineers, consultants, architects, technical leaders, and GTM talent across priority technologies and proficiency levels.
- Demand-to-Skill Alignment: Work with business, sales, solution, and delivery leaders to forecast capability demand and align certification investments with client pursuits, project pipelines, solution roadmaps, and deployment needs.
- Partner Ecosystem Leadership: Act as the capability interface for strategic technology partners and maximize learning assets, vouchers, credits, bootcamps, funding, co-investment opportunities, badges, competencies, and partner-tier requirements.
- Certification Portfolio Management: Own the enterprise certification portfolio, including pathways, nominations, readiness interventions, exam governance, renewals, badge validation, partner-portal mapping, and active certification health.
- Capability Architecture: Create progressive pathways from foundation awareness to practitioner, advanced, architect, and specialist credentials, supported by academies, labs, assessments, mentoring, and applied learning.
- Enterprise Program Leadership: Lead certification campaigns, partner academies, acceleration cohorts, deep-dive sessions, hackathons, certification weeks, and targeted interventions across business units and geographies.
- Talent Deployment & Impact: Establish mechanisms to connect certified talent with client opportunities, delivery roles, internal gigs, solution development, and partner-led GTM motions.
- Governance & Executive Reporting: Lead cross-functional governance and provide executive visibility into readiness, demand-supply gaps, certification funnels, pass rates, costs, funding utilization, deployment, risks, and corrective actions.
- Team & Operating Model: Build a disciplined operating model, lead internal and external program resources, manage vendors, and create repeatable processes that can scale across partner ecosystems.
- Key Responsibilities: - Partner Talent Strategy: Define and execute EXL's enterprise partner talent strategy, translating market demand, growth priorities, and alliance commitments into multi-year capability and certification plans. - Specialized Talent Supply: Build scalable pipelines of partner-specialized practitioners, engineers, consultants, architects, technical leaders, and GTM talent across priority technologies and proficiency levels. - Demand-to-Skill Alignment: Work with business, sales, solution, and delivery leaders to forecast capability demand and align certification investments with client pursuits, project pipelines, solution roadmaps, and deployment needs. - Partner Ecosystem Leadership: Act as the capability interface for strategic technology partners and maximize learning assets, vouchers, credits, bootcamps, funding, co-investment opportunities, badges, competencies, and partner-tier requirements. - Certification Portfolio Management: Own the enterprise certification portfolio, including pathways, nominations, readiness interventions, exam governance, renewals, badge validation, partner-portal mapping, and active certification health. - Capability Architecture: Create progressive pathways from foundation awareness to practitioner, advanced, architect, and specialist credentials, supported by academies, labs, assessments, mentoring, and applied learning. - Enterprise Program Leadership: Lead certification campaigns, partner academies, acceleration cohorts, deep-dive sessions, hackathons, certification weeks, and targeted interventions across business units and geographies. - Talent Deployment & Impact: Establish mechanisms to connect certified talent with client opportunities, delivery roles, internal gigs, solution development, and partner-led GTM motions. - Governance & Executive Reporting: Lead cross-functional governance and provide executive visibility into readiness, demand-supply gaps, certification funnels, pass rates, costs, funding utilization, deployment, risks, and corrective actions. - Team & Operating Model: Build a disciplined operating model, lead internal and external program resources, manage vendors, and create repeatable processes that can scale across partner ecosystems.
Qualifications
- Prince 2 / PMP Certified and AGSM Certified 12 years
About EXL
EXL is a global data and AI company that provides analytics, digital operations, and industry-specific services to enterprises in insurance, healthcare, banking, retail, media, and energy.
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