Team Leader/Manager

About the role

Thinkahead is actively seeking a dedicated Team Leader and Manager to guide a specialized group focused on building platforms for digital business. This critical position involves constructing and directing the combined Research, Insights, and Design Center of Excellence from the ground up. The individual will serve as both a hands-on practitioner and a strategic coach, blending research execution with design leadership effectively. They will act as a key intellectual anchor and creative authority, providing essential guidance to senior consulting and sales leadership teams. By shaping how consulting teams interpret market dynamics and position against competitors, this role directly influences the firm's ability to win complex enterprise technology deals.

Key facts

This role demands a full-time commitment in the Gurugram, Haryana office. The compensation package is not listed in the provided source material.

Location: India

Engagement: Full-time

What you'll do

You will establish the comprehensive operating model for the combined Research, Insights, and Design Center of Excellence.

Define the research methodology and design standards that govern the team's daily operations and project delivery processes.

Build the quality governance framework to ensure all consulting outputs consistently meet the highest professional benchmarks and standards.

Develop and maintain the delivery engine that supports hands-on research execution and sustained design excellence across all projects.

Serve as a player-coach by actively participating in research tasks while simultaneously guiding and mentoring team members effectively.

Partner with internal stakeholders to build the practice and provide strategic direction for the growing group consistently.

Offer credible thought partnership to AHEAD's senior consulting and sales leadership teams on a regular basis.

Shape how consulting teams understand markets and position themselves strategically against competitors in the evolving industry landscape.

Guide account planning strategies to help the firm win complex enterprise technology deals through sharper insights.

Ensure ideas and insights are expressed sharply to CXO audiences using compelling and consulting-grade visual storytelling.

Drive the culture of belonging by creating inclusive spaces where all perspectives are valued, respected, and heard.

Empower team members to speak up, make meaningful changes, and actively drive the culture forward together.

Requirements

Demonstrate extensive experience in hands-on research execution and design excellence within a professional services or consulting environment.

Possess strong stakeholder partnership skills to effectively collaborate with consulting and sales leadership teams on strategic initiatives.

Have a proven track record in practice-building and people leadership for specialized groups focused on digital business.

Serve as an intellectual anchor and creative authority capable of guiding complex projects and setting high standards.

Function as a credible thought partner for senior executives and cross-functional business units seeking market insights.

Apply consulting-grade visual storytelling techniques to communicate sharp, actionable insights to high-level C-suite audiences effectively.

Establish and enforce quality governance standards across all research and design deliverables to maintain excellence.

Drive the creation of safe spaces that empower diverse voices and foster a genuine culture of belonging.

Combine intellectual curiosity with creative authority to shape how consulting teams understand and interpret complex markets.

Lead the development of the delivery engine that connects research methodology directly to enterprise technology solutions.

Nice to have

Value a culture of belonging where all perspectives and voices are represented, respected, and genuinely heard by leadership.

Champion the empowerment of individuals to speak up, make change, and actively drive the organizational culture forward.

Support the diversification and enrichment of ideas through inclusive hiring practices and equitable team development strategies.

Uphold equal opportunity principles without discrimination based on any protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

Embrace candidates who contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at the organization.

Skills & tools

Utilize cloud infrastructure to support scalable digital business platforms and reliable enterprise technology solutions for clients.

Apply automation and analytics methodologies to enhance research workflows, design processes, and overall delivery efficiency significantly.

Apply software delivery best practices to accelerate the implementation of insights and research findings into production.

Understand the core principles of digital transformation and enterprise technology markets to inform strategic consulting approaches.

Employ research methodology frameworks to structure rigorous and actionable investigative projects that drive business value.

Master visual storytelling tools and techniques to present consulting-grade findings clearly to C-suite audiences.

Integrate advances in cloud infrastructure, automation, and analytics to weave together a cohesive digital strategy.

Practical notes

This role is based in Gurugram, Haryana and operates on a full-time schedule within the Thinkahead office.

The organization is an equal opportunity employer committed to non-discrimination in all employment practices and policies strictly.

Protected characteristics explicitly include race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, and marital status.

The company embraces all candidates who contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at Thinkahead.

All voices are valued regardless of any actual or perceived protected characteristic under applicable law without exception.