Director - Emerging Commercial Platforms

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

When you join Verizon:

You’ll have the power to go beyond – doing the work that’s transforming how people, businesses and things connect with each other. Not only do we provide the fastest and most reliable network for our customers, but we were first to 5G - a quantum leap in connectivity. Our connected solutions are making communities stronger and enabling energy efficiency. Here, you’ll have the ability to make an impact and create positive change. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, join our team of the best and brightest. We offer great pay, amazing benefits and opportunities to learn and grow in every role. Together we’ll go far.

What you’ll be doing…

As a Director in Corporate System Group based out of Hyderabad and as part of senior leadership in Verizon India,

• Collaborate with Business and Technology partners to drive results for Enterprise(Corporate Business Functions)

• Focus on people excellence: Drive high performance team aligned with the Organizational purpose, nurture talent, build workforce with future ready skills, develop roles and capabilities to fulfill strategic workforce planning

• Delivering on supply chain and inventory optimization working closely with business and technology partners

• Operational excellence: Reduce cost of operations and deliver more value through process optimization, automation and engineering innovation. Drive effective change management towards achieving efficiency . Drive maturity in operations.

• Technical excellence: Lead platform modernization and emerging tech adoption to drive higher value for business and customers

• Culture of collaboration and innovation: Instill behaviors and influence positive actions to leverage the network(teams) and continuous improvement.

• Change champion: Instill trust and confidence during change and align actions to the purpose of change

• Manage software delivery with both onshore and offshore resource teams and with IT vendors. Improve global team productivity.

• Drive best practices across the teams and champion employee engagement

• Presenting problem statements/data/conclusions/recommendations in a consumable, meaningful, and insightful manner.

• Analyzing complex business problems and issues using data from internal sources to provide strategic and actionable business insights to decision-makers. Develop and deliver data-driven solutions to support business needs and analytics.

• Reviewing project deliverables such as designs and requirements for completeness, quality, and compliance with the revenue recognition standard.

• Handling administrative and resource management of a portfolio comprising multiple projects and large teams. Accountable for sound financial decisions required to manage significant capital and expense budgets.

• Building and sustaining capability hubs that accelerate value realization for the business

• Inspire open and learning mindset within the team, overcome orthodoxy and lead with example, setting strong expectations on core values of respect, integrity, accountability, performance excellence and social responsibility

Where you’ll be working…

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What you should have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Demonstrated ability to lead large and complex technology operations - end to end systems design and implementation. More than 8 Years in management role, and 3+ years in Senior Management role.

• Experience in building enterprise grade solutions on SAP platforms

• Experience in working with Vendors as managed services.

• Experience in solution development, large scale integration with technology services and platforms.

• Knowledge of emerging technology including RPA and Blockchain.

• Knowledge in Data analytics and BI

• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills

• Strong problem solving skills and lead with strategic thinking

• Uphold customer centric culture, lead with purpose and empathy and inspire positive behaviors and actions, challenge status quo and orthodoxy

• Strong consulting and presentation skills

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Master's degree. Management degree would be an advantage.

• Experience in Fintech.

• Knowledge of Supply Chain, Finance and Customer Service preferably in retail & telecom.

• Experience in leading large geographically distributed teams.

• Experience in Process optimization and automation projects.

• Experience in Agile development.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.