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KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Ignition Growth Manager to join our Growth and Strategy organization.

Responsibilities:

• Drive client engagement, revenue and brand awareness by aligning Ignition capabilities to strategy of the market, building a pipeline of opportunities in the Ignition Center and delivering with the Ignition and local markets teams to support the execution of Ignition activities
• Develop and oversee plans for execution of strategic objectives in the market with input from the Market Leader/Office Managing Partner and other local partners; serves as a key advisor to clients and local partners and proactively initiates ideas to solve complex business problems
• Manage and work as part of a multidisciplinary team to develop design thinking-based solutions that help internal and external stakeholders solve complex business issues via collaborative workshop experiences such as, project management, stakeholder management, and financial management
• Collaborate with senior executives of clients and KPMG leadership to plan sessions, including scoping session objectives, designing an effective approach; lead a delivery team, manage internal and external stakeholders, coordinate operations and logistics as well as preparing materials and inputs; lead client sessions, including facilitating activities and interactive exercises, capturing and synthesizing session outputs and contributing to a high-quality as well as seamless client experience
• Create high-quality deliverables and assist in creating follow-up communications, take follow-up actions to advance commercial opportunities, and create case studies and insights from sessions; execute sessions leveraging facilitation techniques and design thinking-based methods to help clients solve complex business challenges
• Lead all resources necessary to drive client relationships and revenue to and through the Washington D.C. Ignition Center; serve as an ambassador for Ignition in the market internally (hosting immersion sessions, speaking to strategic audiences, and more) and externally (clients, speaking opportunities) to represent KPMG's innovation journey and Ignition's role in it; maintain and advance an understanding of technology trends and business applications

Qualifications:

• Minimum eight years of recent experience in a professional services environment, background in client service delivery with subject matter expert in one or more of the following areas preferred such as, Generative AI, AI and digital transformation, data and analytics, emerging technologies, cloud, data management, modernization and more
• Bachelor's degree from accredited college or university is required
• Excellent storyteller with the ability to prepare compelling presentations and client experiences; understand design thinking principles and effectively lead interactive and collaborative sessions tied to achieving business results; background with a leadership role leading and motivating a team and working with agility within a matrixed partnership environment motivating individuals outside of direct reporting lines
• Experience working within a matrixed partnership environment motivating individuals outside of direct reporting lines and be agile, adaptable and dynamic in a fast-paced environment; ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity
• Active self-starter with strong work ethic; dependable and productive member of a team; acts with integrity and leads by example at all times in the execution of all tasks; client centric/service mindset in the execution of all projects, deliverables, interactions, and more; travel may range from 50% - 80% at times
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future

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