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Technology Modernization - Alliance Associate

As a Alliance Channel Associate to support the firm’s growing Technology Alliance Practices. This role will help position the firm as a leading channel partner to our top-tier alliances and to clients by managing our presence at national events, developing publications to expand awareness of Grant Thornton’s capabilities within the Alliance ecosystems, and supporting the Alliance Sales team. This position works closely with the Alliance Leadership and Sales teams, Advisory Services Marketing, Industry Marketing and others as necessary to help our alliances attain their growth goals. This role requires a highly organized self-starter with strong writing skills, presentation design experience and excellent project management skills.

From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:

+ Project manage Alliance Channel events from planning and participation through follow up, including:

+ Actively participate in multiple conferences and client-centric events across the country

+ Manage event participation—pre-event planning, on-site activities and sessions, and post-event communications and follow-up

+ Source special event locations and coordinate event details

+ Engage with clients, prospects and Alliance Channel partners to represent Grant Thornton during conferences

+ Review session abstracts and presentations to maximize Grant Thornton’s position as a thought leader

+ Collaborate with social media and marketing teams to promote our conference presence

+ Create Alliance communications to expand awareness of Grant Thornton’s capabilities

+ Lead the writing of Alliance Channel communications and sales enablement documents, including case studies, win stories, newsletters, event communications and social media posts

+ Highlight the Grant Thornton value proposition and our technology alliance differentiators in written materials

+ Manage workflow of alliance channel projects and thought leadership

+ Design and develop Alliance Channel documents and sales materials, etc.

+ Create prospective client and alliance channel presentations in PowerPoint leveraging firm’s visual identity and brand standards

+ Project manage the creation of sales collateral including digital flipbooks, brochures, sales decks and infographics

+ Help support the Grant Thornton Alliance leadership team including research, literature creation and materials development

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

+ Possesses a high degree of integrity at all times and in all interactions

+ Communicates openly and honestly with clients and the Grant Thornton team

+ Consistently promotes and contributes to an effective team environment

+ Readiness to travel. Must be currently eligible to work in the United States, position is not eligible for employer sponsorship

+ English: Fluent spoken and written communications skills

+ Highly organized and detail oriented

+ Flexible, adaptable and an eager self-starter

+ Microsoft Office proficiency with advanced PowerPoint skills

+ Experience with other leading design tools, such as Adobe Creative Suite

+ Experience with a CRM system and CRM reporting a plus

+ Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or related field required

+ Travel to several national events required throughout the year

+ Consistent with the firm’s hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least two days per week either at a GT office or client site

Technology Transformation - Transformation Design and Execution Manager

As a Technology Strategy Manager, you’ll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Technology Transformation Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:

+ Possess a working knowledge of how a commercial or large non-profit organization functions from an organizational, operating model, process, and technology perspective

+ Continually strive to develop professionally, staying up to date on technology trends and solutions in the marketplace to address the issues companies and large non-profits face

+ Assist practice leaders and business development executives with proposal development and presentations. Identify, quantify, and scope new opportunities for GT on existing engagements

+ Lead teams performing strategic assessments of client technology environments against best practices and widely accepted maturity model frameworks

+ Develop thoughtful, value add recommendations and roadmaps that meet client needs

+ Lead teams performing application package selection, solution design, and implementation planning engagements for mid to large sized public and private organizations

+ Lead teams in the assessment of technology organizations; the alignment of capabilities to enterprise strategy, cost structure, and operating model. Develop deep and relevant recommendations and roadmaps for implementation

+ Utilize first principles thinking, customizing create frameworks and methodologies to solve challenging problems

+ Analyze complex quantitative / qualitative data and synthesize output

+ Communicate effectively in an organized and knowledgeable manner to senior audiences, able to deliver difficult messages with persuasiveness and sensitivity

+ Drive the development of business cases (financial, quantitative, and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformations

+ Build and analyze financial models and complex budgets

+ Coach and develop team members

+ Demonstrate executive presence

+ Contribute to the development of various service offerings and practice thought leadership

+ Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

+ Bachelor's degree in Technology, Computer Science, or related field required. MBA or MIS preferred

+ Minimum 5 years of related work experience in Strategy Consulting, servicing Technology related engagements preferred

+ Excellent business writing and communication skills

+ Experience in the assessment of IT organizations – capability to strategy alignment, cost structure, and operating model

+ Experience in package selection, implementation planning and application architecture model development

+ Experience with strategic IT assessment, enterprise cloud assessments and roadmap development

+ Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 30%

+ Consistent with the firm’s hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least two days per week, either at a GT office or client site

The base salary range for this position in the firm's Islin, NJ, Minneapolis, WI and Hartford, CT offices is between $72,000 and $108,000

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