IN_Senior Manager_AI/ML_GCC_Advisory_Pune

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Job Description & Summary:  

We are seeking to recruit an SM/ Director with AI proficiency who can help build practice and drive sales in the GCC segment. 

Responsibilities: 

 AI & Analytics Transformation Leadership (40%) 

• Lead large, complex, multi-workstream AI and data transformation programmes for marquee clients — enterprise data modernisation, GenAI/Agentic AI deployment, MLOps industrialisation, and analytics operating-model redesign 

• Act as the senior technical authority: review solution architectures, model design choices, evaluation frameworks, and Responsible AI controls — not just delegate them 

• Drive AI adoption and change management: use-case portfolio definition, value cases, AI Centre of Excellence stand-up, and workforce enablement 

• Establish measurable outcomes — cycle-time reduction, cost-to-serve, decision quality, and ROI — and hold delivery accountable to them 

Business Development & Sales (30%) 

• Own an annual sales/origination target; build and convert a qualified pipeline across new GCC accounts 

• Lead pursuits end-to-end: qualification, win strategy, solutioning, commercials, orals, and negotiation 

• Build CXO-level relationships (CDO, CIO, CTO, CAIO, Head of Digital) and grow accounts from project to programme to platform 

Practice & Capability Building (20%) 

• Build reusable IP, accelerators, and industry AI solutions; contribute to PwC's GenAI/Agentic AI asset library 

• Scale the team: hiring, capability roadmaps, technical mentoring, and career sponsorship for Managers and Senior Managers 

• Champion Responsible AI — governance, model risk, bias/fairness testing, explainability, and alignment to the EU AI Act, India's DPDP Act, and RBI/SEBI/IRDAI expectations 

Thought Leadership & Market Presence (10%) 

• Author points of view, whitepapers and industry reports; represent PwC at NASSCOM, industry forums, and client roundtables 

• Shape the market narrative on enterprise AI in India 

Mandatory skill sets: 

Technology Consulting Experience 

• Minimum 7+ years in a client-facing technology/management consulting role, owning delivery and commercial outcomes. Must have operated in a billable, engagement-led model. 

Hands-on AI Leader 

• Demonstrable hands-on depth — has personally built, deployed and scaled ML/GenAI solutions (not purely advisory/PMO). Must be able to whiteboard a RAG architecture, critique an evaluation framework, and debate model trade-offs credibly. Must have led at least 2–3 enterprise AI transformations from strategy through production.. 

Firm Pedigree 

• Current or recent experience at a Big 4 (Deloitte, EY, KPMG), Accenture Technology, CG or a Tier-1 GCC/Global tech consulting arm at Senior Manager / Associate Director / Director level. 

Sales Background 

• Proven origination track record — must be able to evidence personally sold/influenced revenue (indicatively ₹10–20 Cr+ cumulative or a consistent annual target). Comfortable owning a number. 

Technical Depth Expected 

• Must have working, current fluency in: 

• GenAI & Agentic AI — LLM selection & fine-tuning, RAG architectures, agent orchestration (LangChain/LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen), prompt & context engineering, evaluation/guardrails 

• Classical ML & Data Science — supervised/unsupervised learning, forecasting, NLP, computer vision, causal inference, optimisation 

• Modern Data Stack — Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Fabric/Synapse, AWS (SageMaker/Bedrock), GCP (Vertex AI), dbt, Kafka, lakehouse & data mesh architectures 

• MLOps/LLMOps — CI/CD for models, feature stores, monitoring, drift detection, model registries, cost & latency optimisation 

• Governance — data governance, master data, Responsible AI frameworks, model risk management 

Behavioral & Leadership Competencies 

• Executive presence — credible and persuasive with boards and CXOs; able to translate technical complexity into business language 

• Commercial instinct — spots and shapes opportunity in every client conversation 

• Player-coach — willing to go deep into a problem, and equally capable of scaling through others 

• Resilience & ambiguity tolerance — thrives in undefined, fast-moving transformation contexts 

• Ethical rigour — uncompromising on quality, independence and Responsible AI 

Preferred skill sets: 

• Sector depth in BFSI, Consumer/Retail, Pharma/Life Sciences, or Manufacturing 

• Experience serving Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in India 

• Cloud/platform certifications — Azure AI Engineer, AWS ML Specialty, Databricks Data Engineer/ML Professional, GCP Professional ML Engineer 

• Published research, patents, or open-source contributions in AI/ML 

• Experience with AI-enabled managed services or outcome-based commercial models 

Years of experience required: 

10–15 years total post-qualification experience, with a clear trajectory to Director. 

Education qualification: 

B.E./B.Tech from IIT / NIT / BITS / Tier-1 engineering institute, and/or MBA from IIM / ISB / XLRI / FMS / MDI / top global school. Advanced degree (M.S./Ph.D.) in CS, Statistics, Data Science or Applied Mathematics is a strong plus. 

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