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Infosys

Global digital services and consulting provider

Senior Growth Leader - Telecommunications Industry

Strategy & Management ConsultingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMelbourne VIC, AustraliaNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • Significant consulting leadership experience within the Telecommunications, Media and Technology sector, ideally with major telecommunications service providers in Australia or globally.
  • Demonstrated success in consultative selling, account development, opportunity shaping, and conversion of complex consulting-led transformation engagements.
  • Strong executive-level relationships within the telecommunications industry and the ability to influence senior business and technology decision-makers.
  • Experience leading large-scale business transformation, digital transformation, operating model redesign, customer transformation, or technology-enabled change programs.
  • Track record of owning and growing multi-million-dollar consulting portfolios, including pipeline management, revenue growth, engagement profitability, and delivery governance.
  • Strong understanding of telecommunications industry trends, including network evolution, customer experience transformation, AI adoption, cloud modernisation, digital services, and operational efficiency initiatives.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary consulting teams and operate effectively across sales, delivery, and executive leadership functions.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or a related discipline is required.

Responsibilities

  • Drive consulting revenue growth across consumer, enterprise, wholesale, infrastructure, network, digital, and corporate business functions within key telecommunications clients.
  • Develop and execute strategic account growth plans, identifying whitespace opportunities and building a qualified sales pipeline aligned to client priorities and market trends.
  • Lead opportunity identification, qualification, pursuit strategy, proposal development, solution shaping, and commercial negotiations.
  • Expand the consulting footprint by positioning consulting-led transformation services beyond traditional technology implementation and managed services engagements.
  • Develop and industrialise repeatable offerings, industry solutions, and transformation propositions that enhance client value, improve win rates, and support profitable growth.
  • Collaborate with company and consulting leadership to identify cross-functional opportunities and maximise account penetration across the wider client ecosystem.
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with C-suite executives, senior business leaders, technology stakeholders, and key decision-makers across the telecommunications sector.
  • Engage clients to understand strategic priorities, transformation agendas, investment plans, operating model challenges, and technology roadmaps.
  • Position the consulting organisation as a trusted strategic advisor and transformation partner, rather than solely a technology delivery provider.
  • Facilitate executive workshops, strategy sessions, innovation discussions, and consulting-led discovery engagements to shape business cases and transformation initiatives.
  • Strengthen client relationships through proactive engagement, thought leadership, delivery excellence, and demonstrable business outcomes.
  • Lead the shaping and delivery of large-scale business and technology transformation programs across telecommunications organisations.
  • Develop and drive consulting propositions across digital transformation, customer experience and service transformation, AI and intelligent operations, enterprise architecture, business process transformation, data and analytics, technology modernisation, operating model transformation, and cloud and platform strategy.
  • Translate business strategy into practical transformation roadmaps, operating model designs, investment cases, and implementation plans.
  • Bring together industry knowledge, consulting expertise, technology capabilities, and delivery teams to create compelling and differentiated client solutions.
  • Ensure engagements deliver measurable outcomes, including improved customer experience, increased operational efficiency, revenue growth, cost optimisation, risk reduction, and enhanced organisational agility.
  • Own the commercial performance of assigned accounts, opportunities, and consulting engagements, including revenue growth, pipeline development, margin performance, forecasting accuracy, and profitability.
  • Oversee engagement governance, delivery risk management, client satisfaction, resource utilisation, and financial outcomes.
  • Balance growth ambitions with delivery excellence, sustainable profitability, and long-term client value creation.
  • Support strategic account planning, bid governance, and executive reporting to drive predictable business performance.
  • Lead large client engagements and deliver subject matter expertise to clients.
  • Lead sales of large deals and establish sustained financial contribution in sales and managed revenue.
  • Assume a leadership role in firm building and people development and management.
  • Develop practices and communities and provide thought leadership in specific competency areas.
  • Own a region or geography for a specific competency area and manage and develop people in that competency area.
  • Take presales ownership across multiple proposals and lead solution creation and implementation.
  • Work closely with Partners in selling the specific competency area.
  • Build and maintain strong client relationships at the highest levels in client organisations, network with industry experts and forums, and contribute to firm building through recruitment, training, and intellectual property generation.
  • Take responsibility for publishing points of view and white papers.
  • Devote full working hours to the requirements of the role.
  • Exercise reasonable skill, care, and diligence in performing duties; carry out responsibilities in line with recognized standards consistent with training, experience, and professional status; promote the company's interests and protect its reputation and goodwill; and comply with company policies, lawful directions, and legislative requirements.

Desired Qualifications

  • Postgraduate qualifications such as an MBA are highly regarded.
  • Experience working with major telecommunications service providers in Australia or globally is ideal.

About the Company

Infosys

Global digital services and consulting provider

Infosys is a global provider of digital services and consulting. It helps organizations with software development, cloud solutions, data and analytics, automation, and AI-powered platforms to transform their technology and business operations. The company primarily delivers these capabilities through client projects, outsourcing, and managed services, rather than selling a single standalone product. Infosys differentiates itself by its long-standing global reach (present in over 50 countries) and its breadth of offerings, including a dedicated consulting arm and a business process outsourcing unit, which together cover strategy, design, development, and ongoing operations. Its goal is to guide clients through digital transformation and AI adoption at scale, helping them improve efficiency, agility, and competitiveness over the long term.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Bengaluru, India
Founded
1981

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