Manager – Cost Efficiency

Role Overview

• Lead projects for our clients
• Lead the most complex projects within the offering, managing schedule, risks and resources
• Maintain a trusted relationship with our clients and identify potential follow-up opportunities
• Share your convictions and leverage your expertise to guide clients
• Ensure the quality of our deliverables
• Mentor and manage our team members and support their professional development
• Define strategy and drive the development of the offering
• Analyze our market positioning and define the target positioning for Wavestone
• Determine the development strategy for the offering, aligned with market evolution and in collaboration with our experts and management
• Conduct strategic market intelligence: key players and long-term trends
• Identify possible synergies with the firm’s technology, sector or functional practices and determine the resources required to develop the offering
• Manage the offering’s performance, both on the business side (prospecting, pre-sales, revenue) and operational side (smooth execution of engagements, client satisfaction, etc.)
• Drive business development
• Define the business development plan in coordination with sales teams and sparring partners for our key accounts
• Identify new opportunities and lead pre-sales meetings
• Lead responses to RFPs, leveraging your expertise to make a difference
• Support international offices in their local development on these topics
• Act as a Thought Leader: raise Wavestone’s profile on the offering topic through speaking at client or partner events and on social media

Requirements

• You have developed extensive professional experience in consulting on IT cost management topics
• You have led major projects on these topics within large, complex organizations
• You have a track record of success in business development and/or sales
• You are able to unite and upskill our team members around initiatives
• You are fluent in English in a professional context
• You are willing to travel within Europe and internationally for business

Benefits

• Career model: a tailored career path, meaning individual development opportunities
• Further training: Let's grow together! With over 200 training days per year in our Academy and the opportunity to obtain certifications
• Smartworking: Flexible and mobile work is part of our DNA and provides an appropriate framework for collaboration
• Mindfulness & health: Mindfulness programs, sports partnerships, in-house fitness groups…
• A Great Place to Work: we are recognized as Great Place to Work 2025, ranking number one in its category among organizations with more than 2,500 employees (France).