Job Title:  T&T- Customer- CS&D- Business Transformation and Strategy- Bengaluru- Manager

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Your work profile

As a Manager in the Automotive and Mobility practice, you will be expected to:

• Lead end-to-end client engagements and major workstreams across sales transformation, dealer network optimization, go-to-market strategy, customer experience, pricing, aftersales, and profitability improvement.
• Take ownership of engagement planning, governance, execution, and delivery, ensuring that project objectives, timelines, budgets, and quality standards are consistently achieved.
• Translate ambiguous business challenges into structured problem statements, analytical frameworks, and practical implementation roadmaps.
• Direct market, customer, competitor, and operational analyses to generate insights and develop commercially viable recommendations for clients.
• Partner with senior client stakeholders to define strategic priorities and design future-ready business models across electric vehicles, connected mobility, digital retail, sustainability, and emerging mobility ecosystems.
• Build trusted relationships with client leadership teams and serve as a key point of contact for project governance, issue resolution, and executive-level communication.
• Lead client workshops, steering committee discussions, and executive presentations, effectively communicating insights, recommendations, risks, and implementation priorities.
• Manage and mentor teams of consultants and analysts by setting clear expectations, reviewing deliverables, providing ongoing feedback, and supporting professional development.
• Allocate team resources effectively, monitor individual and team performance, and foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-accountability working environment.
• Ensure delivery excellence through rigorous quality reviews, effective risk management, and adherence to engagement governance and professional standards.
• Identify delivery risks, interdependencies, and implementation barriers, and proactively develop appropriate mitigation plans.
• Support clients in moving from strategy to execution by defining operating models, governance structures, performance indicators, implementation plans, and change-management requirements.
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships by recognizing emerging business needs and developing relevant solutions.
• Lead or contribute to proposal development, solution design, effort estimation, commercial discussions, and business development activities.
• Support account planning and pipeline development for priority automotive, mobility, retail, and consumer-sector clients.
• Contribute to the growth of the automotive and mobility practice by developing reusable methodologies, tools, credentials, case studies, and intellectual property.
• Drive thought leadership on automotive retail, dealer performance, electric mobility, connected vehicles, digital customer journeys, and customer-centric growth strategies.
• Represent the practice in internal and external forums, including industry discussions, knowledge sessions, client events, and capability-building initiatives.

Your Qualification

• MBA/PGDM from a premier institute or an equivalent postgraduate qualification.
• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in management consulting, automotive strategy, OEM sales and distribution, dealer operations, customer transformation, or mobility-related roles.
• Strong understanding of automotive retail, dealer network operations, sales and aftersales models, pricing, profitability, customer experience, and digital transformation.
• Knowledge of electric vehicles, connected mobility, digital retail, sustainability, and emerging automotive and mobility business models.
• Demonstrated experience in independently leading projects or complex workstreams from problem definition through recommendation and implementation planning.
• Proven ability to manage project teams, delegate responsibilities, review outputs, provide constructive feedback, and develop junior team members.
• Experience engaging senior stakeholders, facilitating executive discussions, and managing expectations in complex client environments.
• Strong business acumen, structured problem-solving capability, analytical thinking, and executive-level communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights, compelling narratives, and actionable recommendations.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, resource management, governance, risk management, and quality assurance.
• Experience contributing to proposals, client pitches, solution development, or other business development activities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a willingness to contribute to practice growth, capability development, and market-facing initiatives.
• Passion for automotive innovation, customer transformation, and the future of mobility.

Key Compentencies

• Client and stakeholder leadership
• Engagement and workstream ownership
• Team management and talent development
• Executive communication and influence
• Commercial and financial acumen
• Delivery governance and quality assurance
• Risk and issue management
• Business development and relationship building
• Industry knowledge and thought leadership
• Structured problem-solving: analyze market data, develop insights, and create actionable recommendations.
• Partner with client leadership teams to design future-ready business models across EV adoption, connected mobility, digital retail, and sustainability.
• Manage small teams of consultants/analysts, ensuring delivery excellence, knowledge sharing, and team development.
• Support proposal development, business development efforts, and client relationship building.
• Contribute to Deloitte thought leadership and practice development in the automotive and mobility sector.
• Serve as a subject matter contributor on emerging mobility trends, automotive retail innovations, and customer-centric strategies.