Director, Ignition Market Leader

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

Responsibilities:

• 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 - including 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, leading a
  delivery team, managing internal and external stakeholders, coordinating
  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 and seamless client experience.
• Create high-quality
  deliverables and assist in creating follow-up communications, taking
  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.
• Maintain and advance an
  understanding of technology trends and business applications, including
  the impact of AI and emerging technology on business and operating models
  across the front, middle, and back office. Apply this knowledge to develop
  collaborative session experiences helping clients solve complex challenges
  related to AI and emerging technology strategy, use case development, and
  adoption; Drive the enhancement of Ignition session delivery by
  identifying and supporting ways to integrate AI into the delivery
  lifecycle and supporting the development of AI and emerging technology
  session types.
• Drives 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.
• Leads 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,
  etc.) and externally (clients, speaking opportunities) to represent KPMG's
  innovation journey and Ignition's role in it; Develops and oversees 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.

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
• Must be authorized to work in
  the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in
  the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status
  for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1,
  E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT, or any other employment-based visa)

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