Group Director - Subject Matter Expert Group (SME) and Lab Business Units
Keypoint Intelligence is seeking a Group Director to oversee the Subject Matter Expert Group (SME) and Lab business units and provide business leadership for the groups including the development of consultancy services and bliQ framework strategies.
The Group Director is also responsible for overseeing the strategic execution and the development and management of the P&L for these areas. Additionally, this person is also responsible for managing and developing staff, developing client relationships, and driving content, working with the content group as well as consulting and custom testing activity.
Essential Functions, and Requirements:
- Management of the Subject Matter Expert Group
- Develop and execute on the organization’s consultancy and platform framework strategies
- Responsible for the development and management of the P&L for the consultancy and bliQ products
- Provide thought and business leadership for the group
- Support business planning and identify growth opportunities
- Achieve agreed upon financial and business objectives
- Manage staff assignments, reviews, development plans
- Help recruit and attract new talent for the team
- Address staff performance and personality issues
- Coach and development of staff
- Develop and deepen relations with clients, prospects, and industry partners
- Assist Sales identifying and closing new business with meetings, proposals, quotes
- Generate blogs and other content for industry presence and thought leadership
- Speak at industry events, conferences, and webinars
- Handle media inquiries in your area of expertise
- Attend trade shows worldwide to monitor trends and meet clients, prospects, and partners
- Determine research topics and strategic direction based on industry trends
- Establish and meet deliverable and award schedule
- Review deliverables, presentations, projects, and other content for quality
- Contribute to and review market forecasts, end user surveys, and analysis
- Respond to and manage response to client inquiries on a timely basis
- Utilize and manage staff compliance with our client relationship tools
- Conduct desk research and interview industry executives to support projects
- Support and manage custom and multi-client projects in your area of expertise
- Work with IT development team to support data-driven products, workflow, UI/UX
Required Competencies
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong industry knowledge of the office and production print market
- Ability to take core competencies and skills and apply them to new business areas
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong management, organizational and coaching skills. Supervises practice area directors/associate directors and/or department managers.
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with all levels of an organization
- Well-developed organizational and communications skills
- Ability to successfully produce high quality presentations, reports and blogs while consistently meeting deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain relationships with industry leaders
- Bachelor’s degree or Advanced degree and 10 to 20 years industry experience working for a vendor or other consulting firm.
Position requires routine travel throughout the US and Europe with occasional trips to Japan/Asia Pacific region. Typically on the road one or two weeks per month with occasional trips that extend to the weekend.
Keypoint Intelligence offers highly competitive salary and benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance, and 401K.
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Keypoint Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer