Consulting Manager in IT Advisory Services

Consulting Manager – IT Advisory Services (Benchmarking and Sourcing Strategy)

Join our team in Paris, France, where you will lead IT transformation projects, develop roadmaps, and conduct benchmarking and sourcing activities for major clients.

Position Overview

As part of a high-performance advisory team, you will help clients achieve operational excellence in their digital transformation journey, working closely with C‑level executives.

Role & Responsibilities

• Your deep knowledge in the area of IT transformation will enable you to help our customers innovate their business models and drive their application modernization and rationalization strategy.
• You will develop IT roadmaps, target operating models, and business cases to implement emerging technologies supporting digital business transformations and shape the future role of the IT department.
• You will be responsible for delivering and validating high‑quality architectural solutions and migration scenarios to support sourcing scenarios.
• You will provide market/best‑practice insights in benchmarking and performance assessments, sourcing, cloud platforms, application portfolio harmonization, and experience with the implementation/adoption of key solutions.
• You will conduct benchmarks and sourcing transactions with leading IT service and cloud providers.
• Role Model and Career – You are a key player in building up the application community within ISG.

Qualifications (Must‑Have)

• 7 years+ of professional experience in a comparable position in the consulting or service industry.
• 7 years+ delivery management experience, including managing projects/products and teams, successful client relationship management, and multi‑project/product oversight.
• Broad IT solution, sourcing and architecture competence especially in IT transformation and/or cloud migration.
• Experience in large system integration projects from consulting organizations.
• Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy‑to‑understand business terms to all levels of management, including senior leaders.
• Business development and practice development experience.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge with MS‑Office suite of software applications and tools, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Outlook.
• ITIL Foundation V4 Qualification desirable.
• Language requirements:
  • French: native‑level proficiency (C2)
  • English: fluent proficiency (minimum C1)

Education

• Master’s degree in a technical, scientific, or business field (Ecole d’Ingénieur or Ecole de Commerce).
• MBA or MS or other advanced degree(s).

Location & Travel

• Job based in Boulogne‑Billancourt, with up to 2 days per week of home working.
• Up to 25%–50% travel required.

ISG is an equal‑opportunity workplace.